Hey, it's Kelly, and at the end of every week, I like to share something true and useful,

something I stumbled over that gave me a burst of optimism, something you can share with

friends like an audio greeting card, something to help us all keep our eyes on what's working

and what could be.

So, I'll be right back with this week's For The Good of the Order.

This is Kelly Corgan Wonders.

So, for this week's For The Good of the Order, I am reporting out on something I learned

from a woman named Samantha Bordman, who thinks and talks and writes about what she calls vitality.

It's like the opposite of depression.

And she said three things basically contribute to vitality.

Connection, contribution, and challenge.

So connection we've talked about, we are social beings, we were built this way, we are not

meant to be separated.

And as my neuroscientist friend, Lisa Felma Barrett, who I'm quoting more and more

these days, told me, we are the caretakers of each other's nervous systems.

The best thing for a human nervous system is another human nervous system.

And as she would go on, the worst thing for a human nervous system is another human nervous

system.

Which is to say, we are deeply and essentially affected by one another.

And vitality requires connection.

Samantha Bordman's second thought was contribution.

It's another thing that we've talked about many times before in many arenas.

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