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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Little Happier: When the Words of Ritual Give Me My “America Feeling”

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Certain moments inspire my "America feeling"—a profound connection to the ideals of the United States. For instance, the formal words of the opening ritual for a session of the United States Supreme Court reminds me of the value of justice.

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0:00.0

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0:06.6

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0:13.5

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0:20.0

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0:24.6

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0:27.6

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0:32.3

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0:36.5

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0:37.2

I'm Gritin Rubin. books are sold. Lemonada.

0:42.9

I'm Gretchen Rubin, and this is a little happier.

0:46.0

I've spoken before about my America feeling.

0:51.8

I get it when I vote, or when I read the preamble to the Constitution, or when I listen to the very funny song, The Farmer and the Cowman from the Rogers and Hammerstein, 1943, Oklahoma.

0:58.0

It says, I don't say I'm no better than anybody else, but I'll be danged if I ain't just as good.

1:06.0

To me, this is one of the great dreams of the United States.

1:10.7

When I get the America feeling, I often get choked up. For instance, I'm not. This is one of the great dreams of the United States.

1:11.1

When I get the America feeling, I often get choked up.

1:14.5

For instance, I can't read the words inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty without

1:18.8

tears coming into my eyes.

1:22.2

For some reason, I was thinking about another time when I regularly got the America feeling. When I was a clerk at the Supreme

1:29.3

Court, one of the highlights of our work was when we could watch the court in session. There were

1:34.1

a few rows of seats behind a barrier where we clerks could sit and observe as the justices

1:39.2

listened to and questioned the lawyers who presented their cases. My very favorite part came right at the beginning.

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