Trust the world to show its goodness, by Shea Hembrey
Shea Hembrey is 5 years old, walking along the road to his farmhouse on the edge of the Mississippi River Delta, where the floodplains meet the Ozark Mountain foothills. The undulating hills surrounde...
4 Apr 202025min
A meditation for the moment, by Rohan Gunatillake
None of us has ever faced a moment like this. It is heartbreaking and exhausting and ever changing and yet ... days seem to blur together. In this Meditative Story, there is no storyteller – but there...
31 Mar 202018min
Finding meaning in the vastness of the universe, by Michelle Thaller
In this classic episode, while working on an experiment to measure the age of the universe, astronomer Michelle Thaller is reminded once again about both the impersonal immensity around us, and the de...
21 Mar 202028min
Adapting to life's unexpected nature, by Forrest Galante
Jackals and leopards in the fields. The sound of a lion’s roar. Majestic African bush elephants outside the front door. This is childhood for Forrest Galante as a kid growing up on a farm in Zimbabwe....
17 Mar 202031min
Stories my father told me, by Lindsey Stirling
There he is: pacing around the campfire, contemplating, ruminating. Then, with a crooked, mischievous smile, he begins. “Here’s a story…” This is a memory violinist Lindsey Stirling will always carry ...
10 Mar 202027min
Jay Shetty: Learn to see the layers in everyone
"Why?” asks an insistent high school art teacher. “Why? Why? Why?” Staring blankly back, a young Jay Shetty has nothing to say. It’s an art project, it's just homework. A collage. It’s just … layers. ...
2 Mar 202027min
Riding waves, by Paola Antonelli
One summer night Paola Antonelli, now curator and head of R&D at the MoMA, sets sail off the coast of Sardinia — snaking through the wavy sea with friends. She jumps off the boat, slides into the wate...
27 Jan 202024min
Making humanity appear, magically, by DeRay Mckesson
DeRay Mckesson is one of America’s most recognized and admired activists. But before that, he was a magician. Not the kind who pulls a rabbit out of hat, but the kind who makes communities magically a...
20 Jan 202024min
