My favourite session at Aspen Ideas was a talk by David Brooks. He got a standing ovation and made me weep.
His book, How to Know a Person, was on my list of favourites from my Wiser by Choice book club titles from last year. And I read his NYT columns regularly. So my fandom didn’t come as a complete surprise.
Continue reading “Brilliant Friendly Dad”When you sign up to attend the Aspen Ideas Festival, you don’t know which listed speakers will be there on the same dates as you. I was really hoping to hear David Brooks, Jonathan Haidt, Krista Tippett and Brené Brown. I got three out of four (sorry, Jonathan), plus dozens of other impressive speakers I may not have known about previously.
Continue reading “AI and Bren锓Every wise and graceful life I’ve encountered is a life marked by hope”
~ Krista Tippett
In her Aspen Ideas session with Jason Reynolds called “Hope is a Muscle,” On Being podcast host Krista Tippett said that hope requires imagination because it represents an insistence that the world does not have to be this way.
Continue reading “Hope is a Muscle”“Being neighbourly used to involve bringing cookies to someone going through a hard time. Now it’s averting your eyes and not acknowledging what you heard last night through the wall.”
Continue reading “Social Rings of Saturn”“Asking follow-up questions is a lifechanging act of service.”
~Kelly Corrigan
In the coming weeks, I plan to highlight insights that have stayed with me from the Aspen Ideas Festival that kicked off my summer.
Continue reading “The Service of a Second Question”