"Success is making a good thing in a vile time." This thought from Myles E. Johnson was part of the inspiration for this week's episode, which is a collection of good things. Words we love, music and poetry to give perspective, comedy specials on Netflix that help us bear the unbearable. After what's been one of the harder weeks in a long season of hard weeks here in America, we invite you to join us for an hour of meditation on good things. It helped us; we hope it will you, too.

Good Things We Meditate on in This Episode:

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• This Facebook post from Matthew Blake
  
• This tweet from @hausmuva
  
• Khalil Gibran's The Prophet
  
• When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön
  
• Women Who Run With the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés
  
• Nanette, a comedy special on Netflix by Hannah Gadsby
  
• Holy Ground, a demo/unreleased song by Matthew Blake
  
• WHYLD: A Write of Passage by Azure Antoinette
  
• Falling Upward by Richard Rohr
  
• The Journey, a poem by Mary Oliver
  
• The Future, a poem by Neil Hilborn
  
• What I Know, a song by Matthew Blake
  
• Note to Me, or maybe You., a poem by Karyn Thurston