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Podcast Episode: Healing, Wonder, And Repair
Pip: A poet's metaphor, a cancer diagnosis, and a decade of biology later — Gratitude Squared has built something that's harder to categorize than it sounds, and more worth your time than you'd expect. Mara: Today we're moving through two stretches of that work: the personal origins behind the project, and then the biology itself…
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Before Misfires, There Was a House
Long before I began wondering about biology, my mother had already given me a place in which to wonder. She gave me a House. My mother, Marian E. Blake, wrote poetry throughout much of her life. Her poems grew from faith, family, hardship, humor, observation, and the ordinary experiences of being human. Years ago, I…
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Podcast Episode: A Splash of Gratitude Each Day Helps Keep the Doctor Away: Meaningful Use of Time
Pip: Five and a half years after a serious health scare, someone is sitting down to ask whether they used the time well. That is either a very brave question or a very uncomfortable one — possibly both. Mara: Today we're looking at posts from Gratitude Squared, covering what it means to spend time with…
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Podcast Episode: Hope Joy And Healing
Pip: Gratitude Squared has been quietly doing something unusual — writing about hope, healing, and what it actually means to wait for something you can't yet see. Mara: That's the territory today: what distinguishes hope from joy and peace, and how healing engages the soul differently than it does the body. Let's start with hope…
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Podcast Episode: Cultural Meanings Of Gratitude
Pip: Gratitude Squared has been asking the kind of questions that make you put down your coffee and actually think — where does thankfulness come from, and does it look the same everywhere? Mara: Today we're following that thread through culture, faith, and what it means when the very concept of gratitude is shaped by…
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Podcast Episode: Water And Gratitude Reflections
Pip: Water — it sustains life, powers cities, and occasionally reminds Florida that it is very much in charge. Gratitude Squared has been sitting with that full range of what water means. Mara: This episode covers water's many roles — sacred, practical, recreational, and dangerous — and then pulls back to look at what a…
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Podcast Episode: How May I Capture “Love” In One Post?
Pip: Some questions answer themselves just by being asked — and Gratitude Squared asks one this week that stops you mid-scroll. Mara: The post takes on love in its most complicated form: what it looks like when it costs something, and what gratitude means when life is genuinely hard. Pip: Let’s start with the story…
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Podcast Episode: Exploring Gratitude In Daily Life
Pip: There's a site out there asking what gratitude actually is, where it comes from, and whether you can lose it over a lemon of a motor home — and the answer, it turns out, is yes, but you get it back. Mara: That's Gratitude Squared, and today we're moving through the personal practice of…
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Podcast Episode: Healing, Repair, And Uncertainty
Pip: Gratitude Squared has been quietly building something unusual — a framework for thinking about illness that starts not with disease, but with everything your body is getting right this very second. Mara: That’s exactly the territory we’re covering today — from the biology of repair and what happens when misfires persist, to what it…
Keep readingPart Seven: Picking Hope From Your Garden Within
As you traveled through these six conversations, what question has been quietly growing within you? An experienced Gardener knows: This knowledge is similar in biology. Gardeners do not expect perfection: Yet every spring, gardeners begin again. Our bodies are not so different from a garden. Our metaphors begin organizing our conversation. Not explaining. Organizing. They…
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