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An Interview with Alice Walker

By Alice Walker — 2018

In this BBC interview, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Alice Walker, describes a childhood experience and the thoughts it triggered about poverty, rage, oppression, sexism, and misogyny that has influenced her writing.

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Trained Not to Cry: The Challenge of Being a Soldier | Richard Doss | TEDxNaperville

Members and Veterans of the US Armed Forces have unacceptably high suicide rates. Why? It’s not the combat experience like one would suggest, but a much more complex issue that needs to be talked about.

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2016
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Second Act of Service: Veterans Find Work and Purpose in the National Park Service | NBC News

Veterans make up 5.9% of the American working age population. But in the National Park Service, veterans make up 26% of the workforce.

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2018
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Mary Oliver with Coleman Barks, 4 Aug 2001

Mary Oliver's poetry, with her lyrical connection to the natural world, has firmly established her in the highest realm of American poets. She is renowned for her evocative and precise imagery, which brings nature into clear focus, transforming the everyday world into a place of magic and discovery.

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Mary Oliver
2010
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Andrew Solomon: How the Worst Moments in Our Lives Make Us Who We Are

Writer Andrew Solomon has spent his career telling stories of the hardships of others. Now he turns inward, bringing us into a childhood of struggle, while also spinning tales of the courageous people he’s met in the years since.

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Andrew Solomon
2014
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Addicted to Ideology? with Gabor Maté

Can we be addicted to ideology? Gabor Maté is an world famous expert on addiction - in his book 'In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts' he talks about how addiction is best viewed not as a crime or illness but as a coping mechanism for a personal, spiritual crisis.

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Gabor Maté
2018
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Activism, Deep Ecology & the Gaian Era—Lynn Margulis, Stephen Buhner and John Seed

Lynn Margulis, Stephen Buhner and John Seed speak to a crowd at Amherst College in 2005.

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Stephen Harrod Buhner
2011
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Spiritual Survival Skill #1: Being Comfortable in the Unknown

One of the most important capacities we can access during this time of so much uncertainty is the ability to be comfortable in the unknown.

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Craig Hamilton
2020
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