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Something I've Been Meaning To Say

Ali Farka Toure/Derek Gripper/Toumani Diabate

Jarabi/Diaraby - Ali Farka Toure/Derek Gripper/Toumani Diabate

Background, context, and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/04/19/esperanza-spalding-william-blake-the-fly/

CONTEXT / POEM TEXT

Esperanza Spalding performs "The Fly" by William Blake

What if the first question we asked on a date were, "How are you crazy? I'm crazy like this"? Philosopher and writer Alain de Botton's essay "Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person" was one of the most-read articles in The New York Times in recent years. As people and as a culture, he says, we would be much saner and happier if we reexamined our very view of love. Nowhere do we realistically teach ourselves and our children how love deepens and stumbles, survives and evolves over time, and how that process has much more to do with ourselves than with what is right or wrong about our partner. The real work of love is not in the falling, but in what comes after. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Alain de Botton — The True Hard Work of Love and Relationships." Find more at onbeing.org.

On Being with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett

From Nat Bartsch Trio's 2008 self-titled release

I Think I Always Knew... - Nat Bartsch Trio

Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.

[Unedited] Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett

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