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The View at 72
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This Other Eden by Paul Harding
Mi Casa es Su Casa
Marcus Aurelius
December Laugh
The Book of Charlie by David Von Drehle
Wasted on the Way by Graham Nash
Teaching and Learning About Boundaries
Ring the Bells by Johnnyswim and Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors
How To Do Things You Hate by Peter Hollins
Peter Hollins
The Liberal Art of Business
Seth Godin
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
October Laugh
Goodbye Road by Drew Holcomb
Goodbye Road
September Laugh
Dearly Departed by Shakey Graves
September Book of the Month
Farnum Street
The Lessons of Money Lending
August Laugh | Terry McCarthy
Seth Godin
The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri
Many a Mile to Freedom by Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi (Traffic)
Keep Calm and Carry On
July Laugh by Maria Salmon
I Can Change by Lake Street Dive
In Pursuit of the Common Good by A. E. Hotchner and Paul Newman
Farnum Street
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
June Laugh
James “Scotty” Reston
On Being Certain by Robert Burton
MTA by The Kingston Trio
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The Stranger by Albert Camus
Positively 4th Street by Bob Dylan
Carl Jung
Excuses and Blame
Seth Godin
Found Forever by Caamp
Stutz by Jonah Hill
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If I Needed You by Townes Van Zandt
Trust by Hernan Diaz
Arthur Brooks
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View from the Bottom
February Laugh | Bill Watterson
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
That’s What the Lonely is For by David Wilcox
Leonard Cohen
The Illusion Of Control
January Laugh
Uniting America by Peter Shinkle
Michael Utesch
Stick Season by Noah Kahan
The Dyslexic Advantage by Brock and Fernette Eide
Tobi Lutke
Santa Lost A Ho by The Christmas Jug Band
December Laugh
What You Want
Wiley Miller | Non Sequitur
Stuck in the Middle with You by Stealer’s Wheel (Rafferty and Egan)
The Spy and the Traitor by Ben McIntyre
Living Testimony by Tim McCarthy
November Quote
September Laugh
Stella McCarthy
The Same Boat by Ryan Montbleau
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Three Questions
The Gun Industry Created a New Consumer by Ryan Busse, The Atlantic
Post War by Tony Judt
August Quote
Golden by My Morning Jacket
Processing Input
David Sipress
Ain’t No Sunshine Performed by The Neville Brothers
The First Kennedys by Neal Thompson
July Laugh
Kimberly Brown
Reciprocal Giving
June Laugh
Rocket Man by My Morning Jacket
Alfred Adler
We Don’t Know Ourselves by Fintan O’Toole
Shaping Our Jiminy Cricket
Spaceballs - Mel Brooks
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Mardy Grothe
She Wore Diamonds on the Inside by Ben Harper
The Business of Good
David Loy
The Office “Michael, Jim, Dwight” sales training scene
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Time Stretching Exercises
75 and Sunny by Ryan Montbleau
Four Thousand Weeks - Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Felicia McCarthy
July by Noah Cyrus, featuring Leon Bridges
The Softening of Age
Stopping or Starting
Billy Summers by Stephen King
Here We Go Again by Seth Godin
Mary Ridpath Mann
Catching and Releasing by Matt Simons
Originals
Freedom Fries
Seth Godin
Scrooged
Truth Worth Telling by Scott Pelley
December Laugh
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
Better Angels of our Nature by Steven Pinker
Faith performed by Lake Street Dive
The News Cyclone
Why Are People Really Leaving Their Jobs? The Whole Reason Can Be Summed Up in 4 Words.
November Laugh
Seth Godin
Old Wishes
Forever Young by Bob Dylan
Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering by Scott Small
Just Get Me A Box by Brendan Murray
Trent Hinger21
Leonardo Da Vinci by the Walter Isaacson
Baby Don’t Leave Me Alone With My Thoughts by Lake Street Dive
Anthony Gittens (with thanks to Pat McNicholas)
Who are you talking to?
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
She’s Leaving Home by Paul McCartney and John Lennon
Richard T. Good
The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
The First Tee
Life Changing Books
Everybody’s Had the Blues
Philanthropy, from Aristotle to Zuckerberg by Paul Vellely
Voltaire
August Laugh
Everything in Moderation — a Key to a Happy and Balanced Life
Brené Brown - The Gifts of Imperfection
July Humor
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Fly Like an Eagle by Steve Miller
Claire Suddath’s interview with Dr. Deepak Chopra
Free Hand and Imperfect Heroes
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