Recent favorites—a podcast and two essays—that I enjoyed in November 2024:
1. The Antidote To Not-Enoughness | Robin Wall Kimmerer.
I could listen to snippets of this conversation every day just to remind myself of the truth of our interdependence and the abundance of provision in this world. It prompted me to buy Robin Wall Kimmerer’s new book, The Serviceberry.
2. How the Ivy League Broke America.
I’m grateful that David Brooks is critiquing the foundations of American meritocracy and seeking to expand our understanding of how to reform the meritocracy. I still have questions about how we value the people who will never fit within the bounds of the meritocracy, and I’ll write more on that in a few weeks.
3. The Body She Had.
In case you missed it, I talked on the podcast last week with Rosemarie Garland-Thomson about this essay. It’s a compassionate and challenging meditation on which lives we value, how we make choices, and what it would look like for us to live in love.
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