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🗓️ 13 September 2021
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0:00.0 | It's tough to stick with workout routines and making time to hit the gym is sometimes even harder. |
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0:19.6 | fitness goals. Try Peloton risk-free with a 30-day home trial. New members only, not available in |
0:25.1 | remote location, see additional terms at onepeloton.com slash home trial. I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is |
0:32.0 | a little happier. I'm working on a book about the five senses and how we can use our five senses |
0:38.6 | to give us a sense of vitality and connection to the moment and to other people. I found that just as |
0:46.3 | we can sometimes minister to the body through the spirit, sometimes we can minister to the spirit |
0:52.1 | through the body. I was very struck by this passage from Ann Patchett's memoir Truth and Beauty, |
0:58.5 | a friendship about Ann Patchett's enduring friendship with fellow writer and poet Lucy Greeley. |
1:05.2 | Near the end of her life, Lucy Greeley was struggling with depression and addiction and Ann |
1:10.5 | Patchett describes how she tried to help. I figured even if I couldn't make Lucy deeply happy, |
1:17.2 | I could provide the kind of happiness that would seem hollow if we had the money or the time to |
1:22.0 | stay in it too long. I booked Lucy a massage and had her eyelashes died. I took her for a pedicure. |
1:29.0 | I bought her the best pate I could find in Nashville along with SpaghettiOs and Hungry Jack |
1:34.0 | Biscuits and everything else I knew she liked. We went to a bad movie and then stayed for a second bad |
1:39.6 | movie. I took her shopping and bought her whatever she wanted and she was happy and I was happy. |
1:46.2 | As Ann Patchett points out, these kinds of activities would seem hollow if we pursued them too long, |
1:52.3 | and yet it's also true that our bodies and our senses can be a source of profound comfort. |
1:58.8 | I'll post a link to Truth and Beauty, which I highly recommend in the show notes. Also on the |
2:05.8 | happier podcast for our book club, we interviewed writer Ann Patchett about her novel The Dutch House. |
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