Kwan Wilson was a high school basketball star living in San Diego when a tragic accident changed his life in ways no one could predict. He only looked at his phone for a few seconds, but that was all the time it took to crash his car into a telephone pole, killing his mother and paralyzing him from the waist down…
Karen Blixen’s Out of Africa is the lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya that launched a million tourist trails. From the moment she arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Actress Julie Harris delivers a reading that is emotionally charged and reflective, recreating Blixen’s lively appreciation for the land she loved so much.
Our prosocial emotions – gratitude, compassion, and pride – are easier to generate than the willpower and self-denial that underpin traditional approaches to grit….
