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We’re called to create a better world, but what about the more immediate task of creating our own lives? Inspired by a quote of Thomas Merton, host Lily Percy asks people to think through ho...
“My mom has a very dark sense of humor. I think that’s how I learned how to recycle pain.” Hari Kondabolu is not your average stand-up comed...
“I cannot tell you how many times laughter has connected me with all different kinds of people throughout the country, of all kinds of polit...
“I don’t think that humor is evasive at all. It’s how we protect our hearts from just bleeding to death.” Bestselling author Terry McMillan...
“Humor is always about ‘as if.’ And it just relaxes everybody. We’re going to laugh.” Transparent creator Jill Soloway describes Amichai Lau...
“What makes humor is pattern recognition. Finance is very helpful on that front because there are a lot of patterns that keep repeating them...
“Humor reminds me a lot of magic, in that there’s no way to quite replicate it. There’s a power to that” The humor in Daniel José Older’s wr...
“Humor gives me release. Sometimes there’s just too much tension and you have to let it go. Laughter is such a great natural physical respon...
“Humor establishes new ground for parents and kids to relate on that isn’t just parent-kid.” For Maureen Craig, humor is central to how she...
“I use humor as a way to let our community know that we’re not invisible, at least not to us.” Chicano cartoonist and writer Lalo Alcaraz ex...
“When you are helpless with true laughter, it’s like orgasm. Your body gets taken over. If it didn’t feel so good, you’d think there was som...
“When everything feels horrible, what tiny detail can we seize on and laugh about.” Writer Lindy West talks about being fat and being a femi...
“The real Book of Mormon is on my shelf, and next to it, the Book of Mormon Musical. And I’m spiritually enriched by both.” Ask anyone who i...
“The best expression of humor is something that comes out of suffering and comes out of a sense of alienation.” Margaret Cho opens difficult...
“Humor is a tool for inclusion and for making everyone realize: we’re all together on this.” Jonny Sun has formed a devoted community of alm...
Humor as a tool for survival. That’s the theme of our second season of Creating Our Own Lives. Host Lily Percy speaks with 15 different voic...
“When I’m running, I’m in my body, with all of its limitations but with all of its capabilities at the same time.” Mike Stavlund is the auth...
“If you watched me run, you wouldn’t think I was sitting or thinking about sitting.” Justin Whitaker is a writer, a ChiRunner and a Buddhist...
“When I’m running, I feel like I’m actively expressing gratitude.” Sarah Khasawinah works in the Senate to improve policies for older Americ...
“I began to notice that my running life and my meditating life were beginning to merge.” Roger Joslin is an Episcopal priest and the author...
“My love for running started with me running towards my mom.” Mallary Tenore’s mother, Robin Jo, introduced her to one of the defining pract...
“Running challenges people to see me from a different perspective.” In Sikhism there is a duty to “hone the spiritual body in the same way t...
“I cannot even begin to push myself to the extent that God can help me to push myself.” Christy Marvin is the mother of three boys and a mou...
“You’re running often side-by-side, or one person in back of the other, rather than looking somebody in the eyes as you’re being vulnerable...
“Running has helped me become more present.” Some people turn to prayer or meditation or yoga as a way to slow down and make sense of their...
“What else have I been lying to myself about? What else have I been hiding from ’cause I was scared?” Teacher, writer, and Mexipina Christin...
“The number one objective of my Olympic pursuit was to heal a broken soul.” Gold medalist Billy Mills set a world record in the 10,000-meter...
A sneak peek into Creating Our Own Lives, a new podcast from On Being Studios.