Little Happier: Zora Neale Hurston’s Vision Shows How Mysterious the World Is.

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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In her thought-provoking memoir “Dust Tracks in the Road,” Zora Neale Hurston’s vision of her future reminds me of how mysterious the world is. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; podcast@gretchenrubin.com Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Order a copy of Gretchen’s new book OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM here: http://outerorderinnercalmbook.com Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors. Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.
0:03.0	I recently read writer and anthropologist Zora Neal Hurston's haunting 1942 autobiography
0:10.3	Dust Tracks on a Road.
0:12.1	It reminded me of Carl Jung's memoir Memories Dreams Reflections, and that is high praise
0:16.9	indeed.
0:18.8	She described something very mysterious that happened to her when she was about seven
0:22.7	years old.
0:24.2	Now, one note as I read this passage, she mentions the journalist O.O.
0:29.1	Macintyre, who was a very popular newspaper columnist in the 1920s and 1930s, as well
0:34.4	as the British writer Rudyard Kipling.
0:37.9	Here is a lightly edited reading of what she wrote.
0:41.3	Again she's about seven years old.
0:43.8	There was some cool shade on the porch, so I sat down, and soon I was asleep in a strange
0:48.2	way.
0:49.4	Like clear cut, stirry opticon slides, I saw 12 scenes flash before me.
0:54.6	Each one held until I had seen it well in every detail, and then be replaced by another
1:00.0	there was no continuity as in an average dream, just disconnected scene after scene with
1:04.9	blank spaces in between.
1:07.3	I knew that they were all true, a preview of things to come, and my soul rides an agony
1:12.8	and shrunk away.
1:14.6	But I knew there was no shrinking.
1:16.6	These things had to be.
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