#23: Hostages of Time
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In This Episode of The Say The Word Podcast…
We’re talking about:
the impact of illness or disruption on our relationship to time
an excerpt from Elizabeth Tova Bailey’s The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
using curiosity as a tool of “time management"
Here’s where the action’s happening in today’s episode:
[00:46] - welcome
[01:11] - what immediately struck me about this book, reference to episode 13 (Angels & Bodhisattvas)
[03:48] - an excerpt from Elizabeth Tova Bailey’s The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
[04:55] - time and our relationship to it
[05:36] - to do lists and limitations
[08:58] - Adam Grant’s tweet about attention
[10:26] - reference to episode 14 (Multifarious Possibility)
[11:11] - we cannot do it all
[13:08] - injury as “break"
[13:50] - the third thing on your priority list
[14:31] - role of curiosity
[16:14] - Annie Dillard quote from The Writing Life
[17:58] - Danica P.’s quote
[18:50] - next week’s book
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