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Podcast: For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture
Episode: You Are A Tree: Metaphor & the Poetry of Our Humanity / Joy Marie Clarkson
Description: Help us improve the podcast! Click here to take our listener survey—5 respondents will be randomly selected to receive a signed and personalized copy of Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most.We need the world to understand it. Human embodied experience and material life in the world has a profound effect on our thinking—not just poetry and pop music, but our intellectual reflections, philosophical theories and scientific observations, to the most mundane conversations.Take a closer look at human language and ideas, and we’ll find we are deeply embedded, grounded, and bu...