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Prof Tim Jackson is a British ecological economist and professor of sustainable development at the University of Surrey (personal website, twitter, wikipedia). He is the director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), a multi-disciplinary, international research consortium which aims to understand the economic, social and political dimensions of sustainable prosperity. He is also a successful playwright.It was an extraordinarily rich and honest conversation, covering (and this is just a taste): Moving from playwright to accidental economist because of the Chernobyl disaster.Allowing the playwright aspect to explore the conflicts within himself on the economics of prosperity.The struggles of being an outsider pushing at the mainstream.Trying to create a society based on the vastness of meaningful relationships and purposeful lives, rather than the flat, narrowness of economic growth.The need for partnership culture, rather than a domination one, though still with some role for competition that encourages us all to raise our game, without fearing we'll lose everything.Providing capability to the next generation, so voices of today have the space to speak, while having respect for how the past generations helped created that space. The importance of following your north star, and treating challenges to you from the status quo as the crucible that forms you.I make an quotation error. it was Max Plank (not Thomas Khun) who said that scientific revolutions proceed one funeral at a time. Towards the end, Tim makes a similar error: Ode: Intimations of Immortality was Wordsworth, not Tennyson.Tim uses one swear word (f*ck) as part of a story about being rejected by mainstream economists.LinksLatest book: Post-Growth -- Life After CapitalismPrevious book: Prosperity Without Growth (must read, by the way).Riane EislerHerman DalyMary DouglasTimings0:55 - Q1 What are you doing now? And how did you get there?9:37 - BONUS QUESTION: Do you feel that you've combined that storytelling of being a playwright into the analytics of being an economist? 21:00 - Q2. What is the future you are trying to create, and why?27:27 - BONUS QUESTION: The future Tim is trying to create, inspired by past thinking, is a society based on meaningful relationships. But has it existed in practice? And is there a practical way of getting from where we are now?43:04 - Q3. What are your priorities for the next few years, and why?51:14 - Q4. If someone was inspired to follow those priorities, what should they do next?54:50 - Q5. If your younger self was starting their career now, what advice would you give them?57:26 - Q6. Who would you nominate to answer these questions, because you admire their approach?58:40 - Q7. Is there anything else important you feel you have to say?Twitter: Powerful_TimesWebsite hub: here.Please do like and subscribe, to help others find the podcast.Thank you for listening! -- David
Welcome back to this long awaited return of The Literary Life podcast and a new “Literary Life of…” interview episode with Angelina, Cindy and their guest Jone Rose. Jone is a “super-fan” of the podcast and is a homeschool mom living in North Carolina. Today Angelina starts off the interview asking about Jone's childhood reading life and school experience. Jone shares how her own adult literary education didn't start until after she had been homeschooling her own children for several years. In addition to discussing the redemption of Jone's own education, they talk about what her reading life looks like now, how narration helps make connections and increase understanding, asking better questions, and so much more! Join us for the 2022 Back to School Conference, “Education: Myths and Legends” happening live online this August 1st-6th. Our special guest speakers will be Lynn Bruce and Caitlin Beauchamp, along with our hosts Cindy Rollins, Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks. Learn more and register today at Morning Time for Moms. Commonplace Quotes: Surely this great writer would provide me with a definitive definition which showed me all the answers. He didn't, and I was naive to expect him to. Generally, what is more important than getting watertight answers is learning to ask the right questions. Madeleine L'Engle Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become named; and naming is one of the impulses behind all art, to give a name to the cosmos we see, despite all the chaos. Madeleine L'Engle I am inclined to think that her work is in danger of being overlaid by too many interpreters and the simplicity of her message needs preserving. Essex Cholmondeley from Ode: Intimations of Immortality by William Wordsworth Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind. Book List: Walking on Water by Madeleine L'Engle What Is Art? by Leo Tolstoy The Story of Charlotte Mason by Essex Cholmondeley Brother Cadfael Series by Ellis Peters The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis Support The Literary Life: Become a patron of The Literary Life podcast as part of the “Friends and Fellows Community” on Patreon, and get some amazing bonus content! Thanks for your support! Connect with Us: You can find Angelina and Thomas at HouseofHumaneLetters.com, on Instagram @angelinastanford, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ANGStanford/ Find Cindy at morningtimeformoms.com, on Instagram @cindyordoamoris and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/cindyrollins.net/. Check out Cindy's own Patreon page also! Follow The Literary Life on Instagram, and jump into our private Facebook group, The Literary Life Discussion Group, and let's get the book talk going! http://bit.ly/literarylifeFB
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/odef2d7a7 Ode: Intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood By William Wordsworth Narrated by Denis Daly This poem consists of eleven stanzas of varying length, the first four of which were composed in 1802. These deal with the subject of death, a concept with which Wordsworth confesses to having struggled with in childhood. This section ends with two questions: Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream? In 1804. Wordsworth composed a further seven stanzas which present his answer to these questions. His conclusion is: We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind. The complete Ode was published in 1807, and a final revised version in 1815. While some reviewers, notably Lord Byron and John Ruskin, dismissed the poem as being of little value, it is today regarded as one of Wordworth's greatest works.
NB: Please buy a copy of Now You Know It All, the new story collection by beloved former poetess and current wife of the podcast Joanna Pearson!Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:– Brian Platzer!– Iain Reid's novel I'm Thinking of Ending Things– Charlie Kaufman's movie I'm Thinking of Ending Things– The narrative frame of The White Lotus– The definition of “literary thriller”– Luis Buñuel's movie That Obscure Object of Desire– Kevin Brockmeier's book The Brief History of the Dead– David Eagleman's book Sum– The series finale of Lost– Oklahoma!– Wordsworth's poem “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections in Early Childhood”– Eva H.D.'s poem “Bonedog”– The end of The Usual Suspects– The Nobel Prize acceptance speech in A Beautiful Mind– Henry Darger– Alexander Sokurov's movie Russian ArkPlease rate, review, and subscribe! Or just recommend the show to a friend!Send questions, comments, and suggestions to sleerickets@gmail.com. Music by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith
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The first of five or six episodes on this poem, so we can spend a little time discussing it one stanza at a time. At the end, I'll read the whole thing straight through, and it'll mean a lot more to you then (I hope). **CRITICAL NOTE**: I do not know what my mouth was doing when I say the title of this poem. It is called "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood." You know and I know that the second word is "intimations" and **not** "imitations." And yet, somehow I said "imitations" twice. I am so embarrassed. But I am also no longer sitting by the Provo river and can't correct my embarrassing mistake. Forgive me, friend.
Institute of English Studies Professor Stephen Gill (Lincoln College, Oxford) 'A Sea Rolling High': Wordsworth in 1804. The lecture will focus on the emergence of one of Wordsworth’s greatest poems, the ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality fr...
Institute of English Studies Professor Stephen Gill (Lincoln College, Oxford) 'A Sea Rolling High': Wordsworth in 1804. The lecture will focus on the emergence of one of Wordsworth’s greatest poems, the ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality fr...
Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about William Wordsworth's poem "Ode: Intimations of Immortality." From its place in the Romantic era to its influence on Latter-Day-Saints theology, our conversation takes on the poem's ideology of childhood and its accompanying passages about the pre-existence of the soul. Among other things we discuss are possible Platonic and Buddhist influences, how Romantic poetry departs from its predecessors and how it doesn't, and the end of childhood.
Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about William Wordsworth's poem "Ode: Intimations of Immortality." From its place in the Romantic era to its influence on Latter-Day-Saints theology, our conversation takes on the poem's ideology of childhood and its accompanying passages about the pre-existence of the soul. Among other things we discuss are possible Platonic and Buddhist influences, how Romantic poetry departs from its predecessors and how it doesn't, and the end of childhood.
Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *An "Acute Embarrassment"? The Baptism of Jesus* for Sunday, 9 January 2011; book review: *The Language God Talks; On Science and Religion* by Herman Wouk (2010); film review: *The Beaches of Agnes* (2008); poem review: *Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood* by William Wordsworth; music review: *Reverie* by David Wilcox (2010).