Colby Buzzell is an Iraq War veteran whose blog and book is called "My War," and he tells Anne Strainchamps why he joined up and how he got past the drug test.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Ok, take a breath. Close your eyes. Recall the home of your childhood. Can you smell the cookies in the kitchen? Can you open a drawer in your bedroom? Do you see the sunlight through a window? Every building has a story. . . And not only a story, every building has a sound. Many sounds actually.
Is the experience of wonder always unexpected? Or can we create opportunities for wonder?
Internationally acclaimed sound, video and installation artist Janet Cardiff weighs in.
You can also hear the extended interview with Cardiff here.
Writer Brendan Koerner reviews Yukio Mishima's classic novel, "Confessions of a Mask".
Danielle Trussoni is the author of “Falling Through the Earth,” a memoir of life with her Vietnam Vet father who was a tunnel rat during the war...
One future that most of face is seeing someone in the mirror we don’t quite recognize. Here’s Donna McNeil’s story about facing aging.
Houston's Rothko Chapel is a shrine to the transformative power of art. Abstract artist Mark Rothko created 14 enormous paintings for this sacred space. Pianist Sarah Rothenberg tells us the history behind the music on her CD "Rothko Chapel," and writer Terry Tempest Williams describes her reverence for the Rothko Chapel.
Peter Edelman's Dangerous Idea? Putting people to work doing things we need done.
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