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 Wonders for the good of the order.

So this summer, my daughter Claire and I went to see Barbie in a packed theater and we both

were pretty agog at how great it was.

And it took me back to a book that I love that's written by a guest from, I don't know,

probably two years ago now on the podcast.

Her name is Gia Tolentino.

She writes for the New Yorker and she has this book of essays.

It's kind of like social commentary called Trick Mirror.

She is a great thinker about feminism.

I am sure that Greta Gerwig has read her inside and out with a highlighter and sticky

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