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Podcast: Stories From Women Who Walk
Episode: 60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey: Feeling Despair About Democracy's Long Game? Try This!
Description: Hello to you listening in Fairbanks, Alaska!Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (and a bit more) for Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga.Jack Kornfield, American Buddhist teacher and writer asked, “Where does enlightenment come from?” and proceeded to offer an answer in his book, After the Ecstacy, the Laundry. For as many times as I’ve read his work I keep coming back to the title: first, we experience an overwhelming feeling of joyful excitement, and then we are back int...