Shelter in Place: escape into life.

Why create?

This is the question we ask every time we make an episode, and the first one we post to the trainees in our podcast training program. It’s also one of the questions driving season 3 of Shelter in Place, which launches next week. We’re exploring how to embrace life with all of its flaws and fragments, and find our way toward creative, purposeful living.

In one of our most-listened to episodes ever, National Poetry Series winner Teresa K. Miller shares what she’s learned about living creatively when life gets tough.

Teresa K. Miller's National Poetry Series–winning collection, Borderline Fortune, will be released by Penguin on October 5, 2021, and is available for pre-order everywhere books are sold. Signed copies can be pre-ordered from Seattle's Elliott Bay Book Co. (enter "signed copy" in the comments at checkout).

Her book tour begins Saturday, September 25, with a virtual conversation with Pulitzer Prize winner Forrest Gander, who was longlisted for the National Book Awards this past week. You can find all of Teresa’s virtual and in-person stops on her book tour at teresakmiller.net/events.

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The world has always needed fixing. Some weeks it just feels more broken than others. This week, we turn to an unlikely authority to remind us of the things that can help us no matter what state the world is in.

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Show notes:

• World Health Organization’s guide to washing hands.
• NCBI history of handwashing.
• NIH article on the health benefits of play
• Learn more about Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day.
• Jazz singer and songwriter Suzanna Smith
• Kenny Washington, jazz singer and saxophonist
• Prior episodes mentioned today: The Lotus Eaters, Productivity Unhacked, Dancing Saved My Life, and Finding the Fuego.

What if life could be an exciting quest — but with sound?

Laura takes us behind the scenes and into the audio expedition that happens every week at Shelter in Place, from initial idea to published episode. There are highs and lows, twists and turns, and finally, the discovery of what makes a story worth telling in the first place.

Complete show notes at www.shelterinplacepodcast.org

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How do we move from languishing to flourishing even when things are not okay? Languishing has become a buzzword of 2021, a name for the “blah” feeling that has cast a gray light over so much of life. But as the months wear on and the term “post-pandemic” becomes increasingly irrelevant, perhaps we need a term—or a whole vocabulary—to capture the complexity of the very different ways that we are experiencing this time.

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Research shows that happiness bottoms out in our 40’s—but as we get older, we actually get happier through the decades. This week in a special 2-part episode, we’re testing out the happiness curve in real life, with people who are contending with aging in the decades ahead of us: the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s.

Complete show notes at www.shelterinplacepodcast.org. Follow us on Twitter @PodcastShelter or @shelterinplacepodcast on IG/FB.

Help us get happier by sharing Shelter in Place with your friends! We’re setting the goal of reaching 10,000 downloads a month by the end of 2021. Help us get there today by subscribing and sending our season 3 trailer to 10 people you think would like our show.