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A Life Worth Living

A Life Worth Living

Written by: Annie Wyatt
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Contemplative essays exploring how to live. Each episode gathers voices — artists, writers, philosophers, practitioners — who didn't just think about the big questions but did something distinctive in response to them. Attention, solitude, grief, making, mortality, love. Not advice. Not self-help. The examined life, made vivid.




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Annie Wyatt
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  • What a 96-Year-Old Buddhist Teacher Knew About Loving a Broken World

    What a 96-Year-Old Buddhist Teacher Knew About Loving a Broken World
    Jan 23 2026

    Joanna Macy spent seventy years facing the worst news about the planet — and kept going. Not with optimism, which requires believing things will turn out well. With something harder: active hope. This episode explores what she learned about grief, deep time, and loving a world you cannot fix.


    Show Notes:

    Joanna Macy (1929–) is a Buddhist teacher, environmental activist, and scholar of systems thinking. Her work on the intersection of ecology, spirituality, and action has shaped generations of activists and thinkers.


    Sources referenced:

    • Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy (with Chris Johnstone)
    • World as Lover, World as Self
    • Interviews and talks

    Topics: Active hope vs optimism, the Spiral (gratitude → grief → seeing with new eyes → going forth), deep time, honouring pain for the world, staying present without numbing

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