“To be a good human being,” philosopher Martha Nussbaum observed, “is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control”
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Thursday, December 27, 2018
Brainpickings
Brain Pickings is in its 12th year. I think I've been a sporadic visitor for close to 10. I don't know how she does it.... but I am glad she does. In an early 2019 resolution to read more, I finished 100 pages of Anne Lamott's Almost Everything this morning. Maria talks about it in her favorite books of 2018 and also mentions some others which have caught my attention: How beautiful is this line.... just in time for a new year full of things that have never been.
“To be a good human being,” philosopher Martha Nussbaum observed, “is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control”
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“To be a good human being,” philosopher Martha Nussbaum observed, “is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control”
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