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Speaking with Joy

Reading with Joy, Week Four

Speaking with Joy

Joy Marie Clarkson

Books, Arts

5648 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Can fairy tales help us understand the world better than modern philosophy? 



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0:00.0

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

0:14.4

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

0:32.2

Love is not blind. That is the last thing that it is. Love is bound. And the more it is bound,

0:40.1

the less it is blind. Hello everyone and welcome back to Reading with Joy. This is my summer book club and we are reading orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton and we are on Chapter 5. Now I have joked the last few weeks. I have

0:48.6

recorded these podcasts from a different place every time. So we had Oxford to begin with and then

0:53.7

St. Andrews.

0:55.0

And then last week I was in Durham for an academic conference.

0:58.0

And now I am sitting in my dear friend,

1:01.0

Jenna's living room in Princeton, New Jersey.

1:04.0

Jenna and Macy, if any of you ever read Girls Club,

1:07.0

which I put out with my sister and mom this February, Jenna and Macy were two of my very best friends from my masters at St. Andrews, and I am in this

1:17.6

whirlwind trip, having gone to Durham and then Toronto and the New York and now New Jersey,

1:22.6

I am having the funest time getting to stay a bit with Jenna and Macy and just enjoy time with

1:28.7

them. And this morning, Jenna is at work and Macy is at a summer class. And so I have been luxuriating

1:35.6

in Jenna's lovely living room, making myself quite at home with all of her food and cooking

1:41.8

utensils and kind of enjoying a moment and a morning of after about a week

1:47.4

and a half of traveling and going places.

1:51.9

And it's actually kind of a delight to have a little morning off after all of the traveling.

1:56.8

And I feel so well taking care of.

1:59.2

I've been thinking this morning about how sometimes on trips

2:03.1

I felt really, really exhausted, but this trip has been kind of a special thing because each place

2:08.2

that I've gone, I felt really taken care of. So when I was in London, I got to stay with

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