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Curiosity is a skill. It’s at the heart of how we move away from judgment and into real learning, empathy, and forward motion. Like all skills, there are tools to help us develop, grow, and hone curiosity. Language is one of those tools. The Say The Word podcast is where we look at how language is used in literature, memoir, poetry, and all kinds of fiction and nonfiction to connect us to what it means to be human and how to use curiosity to peel back the layers of what is keeping us from li ...
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In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re looking at a passage from John Paul Brammer’s memoir, ¡Hola, Papi! : How To Come Out In A Wal-Mart Parking Lot & Other Life Lessons, discussing perspective, change, and the fallibility of memory. Get more info and the complete show notes at www.cindygiovagnoli.com/podcast…
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Episode description: In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re looking at a passage from Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, discussing how to live on the moon, the astonishment of our real lives, and what is extraordinary in the ordinary. Get more info and the complete show notes at www.cindygiovagnoli.com/pod…
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In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re looking at a poem from Marie Howe’s collection The Kingdom of Ordinary Time , discussing what it means to move through our lives in a state of hurry, what it gets us (and doesn’t), and how to work with it. Get more info and the complete show notes at www.cindygiovagnoli.com/podcast…
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In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re looking at a passage from Louise Erdrich’s novel The Round House, discussing what it means to deal with the unavoidable, confront fear, and step into adulthood. Get more info and the complete show notes at www.cindygiovagnoli.com/podcastBy Cindy Giovagnoli
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In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re looking at a passage from William Least Heat-Moon’s travel memoir, Blue Highways, discussing what it means to make errors, how wandering relates to creativity, and the kinds of failures that lead to regret. Get more info and the complete show notes at www.cindygiovagnoli.com/podcast…
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In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re looking at a passage from David James Duncan’s novel, The Brothers K,discussing how some issues in our lives can be subtle or invisible (until they’re not), recognizing them, and how curiosity can be a valuable tool in finding our way home to ourselves when that happens. Get more info and the compl…
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In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re looking at a passage from Elisabeth Tova Bailey’s memoir, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, looking at what it means to have a chronic illness, our relationship to time, and how curiosity can be a valuable tool in unwelcome circumstances. Get more info and the complete show notes at www.cindygiovag…
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In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re looking at a passage from Ta-Nehisi Coates’s novel, The Water Dancer, looking at what it means to be encouraged, to recognize our own genius, and how curiosity can help us honor that genius in ourselves and others. Get more info and the complete show notes at www.cindygiovagnoli.com/podcast…
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In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re talking about humility and forgiveness and love as we dive into an excerpt from Brian Doyle’s essay collection One Long River of Song, and examining how curiosity can serve us in this work. Get the complete show notes at www.cindygiovagnoli.com/podcast…
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In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re looking at a passage from Joan He’s young adult sci-fi novel, The Ones We’re Meant To Find, examining the difference between aloneness and loneliness, how to tear down walls, and how to use curiosity to connect more deeply. Get the complete show notes at www.cindygiovagnoli.com/podcast…
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In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re looking at a poem from Joy Harjo’s collection, An American Sunrise, examining how to find ourselves when we feel lost, get up when we stumble, and how to be right where we are. Get the complete show notes at www.cindygiovagnoli.com/podcastBy Cindy Giovagnoli
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In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re looking at a passage from Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, The Book of Longings, looking at how that it means to bless the largeness within us, to be a voice, and how curiosity can help us move forward through fear. Get the complete show notes at www.cindygiovagnoli.com/podcast…
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In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re looking at a passage from Ellen Meloy’s essay collection Seasons: Desert Sketches, and talking about place and bearing witness and what it means to be a guest. Get the complete show notes at www.cindygiovagnoli.com/podcastBy Cindy Giovagnoli
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In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re looking at a passage from Leah Johnson’s YA novel You Should See Me In A Crown, looking at how curiosity is the key to trustworthiness and why visibility matters. Get the complete show notes at www.cindygiovagnoli.com/podcastBy Cindy Giovagnoli
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In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re looking at an essay from Ross Gay’s collection The Book of Delights, looking at how curiosity equips up to be delighted even in moments of learning, and why it matters to lead with our hearts. Get the complete show notes at www.cindygiovagnoli.com/podcast…
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In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re digging into an excerpt from Matt Haig’s intriguing novel The Midnight Library, examining the fallacy of regret as well as why and how we all have futures of "multifarious possibility." Get the complete show notes at www.cindygiovagnoli.com/podcastBy Cindy Giovagnoli
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In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re talking about the teachers who surround us every day and digging into an excerpt from Brian Doyle’s essay collection One Long River of Song, examining how the mundane can offer us deep lessons and what it looks like to pause and to truly see what is right before us. Get the complete show notes at w…
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In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re talking about an excerpt from Renee Watson’s Love Is A Revolution, examining what it means to love in all its forms and how to get there through curiosity, and how story gives us a window to truth. Get the complete show notes at www.cindygiovagnoli.com/podcast…
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In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re talking about the importance of language and words and digging into an excerpt from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass, examining what it means to have and use language, why it matters, and how to get there through curiosity. Get the complete show notes at www.cindygiovagnoli.com/podcast…
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In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re talking about enthusiasm and why being “cool” might not be worth the cost, and we’re digging into an excerpt from Kate Morton’s novel, The Secret Keeper, examining cycles, times of strife, finding happiness in small things, and letting ourselves laugh. Get the complete show notes at www.cindygiovag…
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In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re digging into an excerpt from Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge, examining what it looks like when we step into our autonomy (or someone we love does), how to use curiosity to learn about what we need, peace through patterns, and the difference between isolation and solitude. Get the complete show not…
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In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re talking about loss, hope, and forgiveness and digging into an excerpt from Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko, examining what it means to forgive, why it matters, and how to get there through curiosity. Get the complete show notes at www.cindygiovagnoli.com/podcast…
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In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re talking about the idea of home and digging into an excerpt from Barry Lopez’s A Rediscovery of North America, examining the relationship between challenge and the desire for self-knowledge, and how that relationship relates to our sense of place. Get the complete show notes at www.cindygiovagnoli.c…
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In this episode of The Say The Word podcast, we’re talking about mythology and perspective and digging into an excerpt from Sabaa Tahir’s An Ember In The Ashes. We’re examining the differences between guilt, regret, and shame, and how to harness them for growth and transformation. Be sure to check out the full show notes at www.cindygiovagnoli.com/…
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In this episode of The Say The Word podcast, we’re talking about Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide To Getting Lost: what transformation can really look like, how to pump fluid into our unfurled wings, and what the word instar means. Be sure to check out the full show notes at www.cindygiovagnoli.com/podcast. Here’s where the action’s happening in toda…
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For the full show notes, visit www.cindygiovagnoli.com/podcast In This Episode of The Say The Word Podcast… We’re talking about: what’s surprising about middle grade books an excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Ruby Holler what is needed to find a balance between structure and freedom Here’s where the action’s happening in today’s episode: [00:46] - welco…
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For the full show notes and links, be sure to visit www.cindygiovagnoli.com/podcasts In This Episode of The Say The Word Podcast… We’re talking about: why poetry was worth revisiting a poem from Mary Oliver’s A Thousand Mornings the process of finding our voices and growing in original and authentic ways Here’s where the action’s happening in today…
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In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re talking about the power of story, why we shouldn’t disregard fiction as “a waste of time,” and we’re digging into an excerpt from Octavia Butler’s masterpiece, Parable of the Sower, examining fear and change and the search to understand what we believe. Get the complete show notes at www.cindygiova…
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In This Episode: (Get the complete show notes and transcript on my website) Welcome to The Say The Word podcast! In this inaugural episode, I’ll give you a tiny bit of background on what this whole podcast thing is all about before jumping right into our first reading! This episode features an excerpt from Brian Doyle’s gorgeous posthumous collecti…
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