The topic of words and reading rarely bores me and this On Point Program about the changing nature of the English Language and usage is a terrific discussion of our dynamic usage.
If you are looking for a great podcast to tickle your word fancy please visit and support A Way with Words. They know their stuff but are never stuffy or uptight but rather always come across as curious and open to people’s ideas and interpretation of the English Language of today and yesterday.
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on the stage. But active love is labor and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science.
–Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Brothers Karamazov
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because
I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
–Susan B Anthony, reformer and suffragist (1820-1906)
Dr Haider Warraich is interviewed by Terry Gross about how ignorant we are about the modern ways of dying and the great toll this lack of experience costs our culture daily in so many ways.
How much is too much CPR? What age is CPR not recommended because a patient will have no quality of life afterwards? How do doctor’s cope with the various wishes of patients in crisis situations? How can we as a culture be more aware of death as a fact of life and the great cost of hope that is not matched my realism?
This is a terrific interview and may take you to an independent bookstore to buy his book.
A great listen with family and friends to elicit a profound discussion about end of life care and your wishes for just the end you most hope to have.
The Curious Autodidact 