This Is What You Shall Do- Podcast #543
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Cathy+Todd discuss Walt Whitman’s poem This is what you shall do and discuss how his wisdom is relevant today. The discuss what it means to “dismiss whatever insults your soul”, and why this relates to us globally and in our own families. They also share lessons from The Little Rascals and Dead Poets Society.
Poem by Whitman
“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
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| 0:00.0 | Do do do do do do do. |
| 0:05.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:05.7 | My name's Todd. |
| 0:06.3 | And this is Kathy. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Zen Parenting Radio. |
| 0:09.2 | This is podcast number 543. |
| 0:12.0 | Why listen to Zen Parenting Radio? |
| 0:13.2 | Because you'll feel outstanding. |
| 0:14.9 | And who does it want to feel outstanding? |
| 0:16.1 | And always remember our motto, which is the best predictor of a child's well-being is a parent's self-understanding. |
| 0:22.7 | Sweetie, on today's show, just give me one out-breath because then I want to talk about |
| 0:26.7 | pop culture. |
| 0:27.4 | One out-breath. |
| 0:28.2 | Yeah, one, like, sentence of what today's show is going to be about. |
| 0:31.2 | Oh, Walt Whitman. |
| 0:33.5 | Ooh, Uncle Walt. |
| 0:35.7 | I think of Dead Poets Society. |
| 0:37.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:38.4 | I loved Walt Whitman in my high school American literature class. |
| 0:47.3 | Todd's microphone just fell out of its thing. |
| 0:51.1 | I have a feeling. |
| 0:52.0 | It might not be the last time. |
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