Hello and welcome to Speaking with Joy, a podcast about books, beauty, and music.

So make yourself a cup of tea, sit down, and let's begin.

Okay. down and let's begin. Hello, friends, and welcome back to Reading with Joy, my summer book club.

We are reading G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy, and we are on week three looking at the

third chapter, which is rather dramatically called

The Suicide of Thought.

Now last week I talked to you from a half-packed cottage in Oxford.

I was recording on my mother's computer because my mic and computer, I wasn't sure which

one it was, but I figured out it was my computer, had broken.

There were barking dogs and I was in a tizzy.

Now, almost all of those circumstances have changed except for me being in a tizzy.

I am still in a tizzy, but now instead of being in a half-packed Oxford cottage, I am in a half-unpacked new flat in St. Andrews.

Instead of barking dogs and lawnmowers, there are moaning seagulls, which you may hear from time to time,

as I haven't really set up my sound studio. Not that I...

And by sound studio, I mean a closet which I I set up all my recording equipment.

I am doing this right now on the floor of my new room in the flat, surrounded by

unpacked, half-packed, unpacked boxes. And I'm tired, but I'm excited for a good new year.

Last week was really eventful. It was very sad to say goodbye to Oxford, to my

mother who flew back to America after a year and a half being here, supporting me and my sister

and doing work here, sending Sarah off to her curacy, her husband was just ordained to the Church

of England. It was a very eventful week, but I'm just feeling very thankful and very sleep deprived,

but very excited for what will come.

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