Mary Oliver has said, "The poem is meant to be given away, best of all by the spoken presentation of it; then the work is complete." To complete the second hour of the Death series, here's her reading of "When Death Comes," taken from At Blackwater Pond: Mary Oliver Reads Mary Oliver and used with permission from Beacon Press, 2006.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Alistair McGrath teaches Historical Theology at Oxford University and he’s the author of “In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible, and How It Changed a Nation, a Language and a Culture.”
A. Scott Berg is the author of “Kate Remembered.” The book is a biography of Katherine Hepburn in the form of a memoir of the author’s twenty year friendship with the actress.
Andreas Viestad is Norwegian and the host of the PBS series “New Scandinavian Cooking.” He talks about his adventures cooking in the field across Norway.
Field biologist Alan Rabinowitz has spent decades studying tigers and leopards in Thailand. His book “Beyond the Last Village,” recounts his time in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma.)
In 2010 Anne Rice announced on her Facebook page, "Today I quit being a Christian." The announcement sparked headlines around the world. She talks about her complicated history with Catholicism and why she no longer wants to be part of any church.
One fifth of all new relationships today begin online. That’s a lot of people trusting their hearts to the algorithms of digital matchmakers.
What makes a happy workplace? It's pretty clear that most of us want more than just a paycheck. We walso want to do something we care about. The quest to build a corporate culture around meaningful work is what led Chip Conley to the pioneering psychologist Abraham Maslow and his "hierarchy of needs." At the bottom of Maslow's pyramid are baisc survival needs like food and shelter. And at the top is "self-actualization," where people reach their full potential. So what would a self-actualizing company look like?
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