I Heart This

By Ben Lord

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Category: Philosophy

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Episodes: 54

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Root beer, libraries, fresh notebooks, the blue sky--the world is full of things to love. And yet, somehow, despite being surrounded by wonders, we get too busy to notice. We get caught in anxiety. We get stuck in the vitriol of the internet. But ... there is an antidote to all of this. All we have to do is pay attention to the blessings arounds us. That's what "I Heart This" is for. We believe that appreciation is one the highest callings of a human being. Our mission is to remind you that the world is full of miracles. Think of us as a series of audio thank you notes to the universe. In every episode we celebrate another reason for living. We uncover forgotten and often surprising reasons to notice the blessings around us--weaving in history, art, philosophy, and science. Join us for a regular dose of joy. There’s enough outrage in the world; let’s talk about what we love!

Episode Date
The Chains You Can't See: Stories of Inner Freedom
Nov 13, 2025
The Monk, The Dynamo, and John McPhee
Sep 18, 2025
The Case for Smiling at Strangers
Sep 03, 2025
Death in Every Bite: Eating Gently in a World of Pain
Aug 28, 2025
The Astonishing Luck of Earth's Moon
Aug 21, 2025
You Don’t Cut Them Oaks: Keeping a 500-Year Promise
Aug 13, 2025
What the Circus Taught Me About Art
Aug 07, 2025
On Wonder, the Hedonic Treadmill, and a Canoe I Haven’t Fixed
Jul 31, 2025
How One Boring Rock Broke All of Time
Jul 24, 2025
The Unexpected Genius of Writing by Hand
Jul 16, 2025
Escaping QAnon Through the Power of Radical Listening
Jul 09, 2025
We're on Vacay
Jul 02, 2025
Dear Bicycle: A Love Letter to the World's Most Elegant Machine
Jun 25, 2025
How Lord of the Rings Taught Me to Hope in Dark Times
Jun 18, 2025
Unpopular Opinion--Textbooks Actually Rock
Jun 11, 2025
The Forgotten Alternative to Age-Based Education
Jun 05, 2025
This Library Is Trash — Literally: The Turkish Garbage Library
May 28, 2025
How One Simple Rule Transformed Child Nutrition in Vietnam
May 21, 2025
How A “Petty Bureaucrat” Saved America from Thalidomide
May 14, 2025
Ball Lightning: Weather’s Strangest Mystery
May 07, 2025
Vlogbrothers: How Nerds Brought Kindness to the Internet
Apr 30, 2025
Nicaraguan Sign: How Schoolchildren Invented the World’s Newest Language
Apr 23, 2025
Death by Aloha: Travel, Tourism, and The Hawaiian Islands (Part 2)
Apr 16, 2025
Death by Aloha: Travel, Tourism, and The Hawaiian Islands
Apr 09, 2025
Smallpox Eradication: That Time We Decided to Save Everyone
Apr 02, 2025
Strings of Dreams: A Conversation with Vermont’s Poet Laureate
Mar 26, 2025
Jack Gilbert, Poetry, & Stubborn Gladness
Mar 19, 2025
The Problem that Poetry Solves: Rumi & Waking up to Life
Mar 12, 2025
Democracy: The Way Forward with Mike Mrowicki
Mar 05, 2025
Democracy: What Can We Do?
Feb 26, 2025
Is There Hope For Democracy?
Feb 19, 2025
Why The Autocrats Are Wrong: Democracy is F***ing Awesome
Feb 12, 2025
Stories From Strangers: Appreciation is the Word on the Street
Nov 15, 2024
The Hurricane: Is It Even Worth Making Art in an Information Storm?
Oct 14, 2024
Run for Your Life
Aug 14, 2024
Doubt and Faith
Jul 14, 2024
Humankind Does Not Suck! A Defense of My Favorite Species.
Jun 14, 2024
How Nerds Took Over My Heart
May 14, 2024
Risk Delight: Finding Joy in the Apocalypse
Apr 14, 2024
Talking Politics: "Can We Change the Subject?"
Mar 14, 2024
Bread: A Story of Alien Sex and Lost Civilizations
Feb 14, 2024
Thanksgiving: An I Heart This Manifesto
Nov 19, 2023
Field Guides: Voices of the Ancestors
Oct 14, 2023
School: Four Years Prostrate to the Higher Mind
Sep 15, 2023
Mount Desert Island or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Tourism
Aug 14, 2023
Pain: Should We Be Thankful?
Jul 14, 2023
Dear America: Why I Still Love You (Even After We Broke Up)
Jun 14, 2023
Air ... The Most Amazing Thing You Can't See
May 14, 2023
Captain Fantastic: What a One-and-a-half Star Movie Review Taught me About Parenting
Apr 14, 2023
What if Walking in the Woods IS the Meaning of Life
Mar 14, 2023
Why Earth's Blue Sky Is Cooler Than You Think
Feb 14, 2023
A Love Song to Libraries
Feb 14, 2023
How to Enjoy Root Beer in a World of Endless Injustice
Feb 14, 2023
Stubborn Gladness
Jan 14, 2023