Your One Beautiful Thing from 2025

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🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

After a year of political, economic and societal turmoil, we sit down with KQED’s Arts team to talk about their annual series, One Beautiful Thing. The series gathers reflections on singular experiences and practices from the past year that served as a balm, nourishment or enlightenment. This year’s picks include handwriting letters, supporting a struggling artist and taking a solo trip to follow a band on tour. And, we want to hear from you, what was the One Beautiful Thing in your life that punctuated 2025? Guests: Gabe Meline, senior editor, KQED Arts and Culture Pendarvis "Pen" Harshaw, columnist, KQED Arts Luke Tsai, food editor, KQED Arts and Culture Elissa Epel, professor and vice chair, UCSF's Department of Psychiatry; she is the author of "The Stress Prescription" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.4	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. We're talking about the KQED. Welcome to Forum.
0:54.8	I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:56.0	We're talking about the KQED Arts Team's annual One Beautiful Thing series
1:00.4	in which our arts and culture writers reflect on a single meaningful experience
1:04.8	or practice or whatever the thing may be.
1:07.6	I'll give you mind, and my answer to this question is probably pretty obvious.
1:11.3	I spent a lot of time this year devoted to building local community.
1:15.5	My wife, Sarah Rich and I opened a community space in an Oakland storefront called Local Economy.
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