Something to recommend listening to

A yoga student of mine told me about a doctor, named Rachel Naomi Remen, who is doing work that brings together medicine, narrative, story, and compassion.

An interview with Remin is here. You can podcast it, or listen to it on your computer. I highly recommend it. For all of us who have wondered if there is any logic to the universe, Remin begins to make sense of the way in which we connect and make meaning through and by the stories that we hear, and the stories that we tell.

The interview is titled "Listening Generously." The program, Speaking of Faith, is not so much about religion. Rather, the host, Krista Tippett, uses topics connected to religion - Muslim thinkers, writers such as Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy, or a physician who explains the Jewish concept of tikkun olam, or repairing the world - as a vehicle to examine the values that can, but needn't always, be linked to religion: ethics, compassion, caring for the needy, finding meaning in chaos, doing the right thing, asking questions.

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