Hi everybody, this short segment is what we call for the good of the order.

It's something we used to do at the end of my sorority meetings if you can believe that,

where someone would share something that they came across in the course of the week,

a poem, a song lyric, a short story, that they found enormously helpful as they went

about daily life.

And I wanted to pick up the thread because I am so often wowed by something I see in

the world that I want to bring back and hand off to you.

So every Friday, we produce a short segment called for the good of the order.

Think of it like an audio greeting card.

A thing to share with the people that you love around the country who you don't get to

see or talk to enough.

A thing to discuss with the people you do see and talk to on a more regular basis.

This is Kelly Corrigan-Wenders for the good of the order.

This week's thanks for being here comes from an assignment at Yale, where students in

the life-worth living class have to, at the end of a big semester of discussion and

discovery, say once and for all, what they think the point of life is, how they think

they should live to get the most out of it and to give the most back to it.

So we read a bunch of essays that had been shared with us through Miroslav Wolf, Matthew

Krosman, and Ryan McInelly-Lens, the professors of this class we've been talking about.

And we picked this one to share.

This one's called the Great Human Road Race, or the Lost Virtue of Corniness.

Have you ever run a road race?

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