August | 2025 | Listening to the Universe
3 posts published by Lynn Borton during August 2025| Listening to the Universe
3 posts published by Lynn Borton during August 2025| Listening to the Universe
“I actually still remember our first encounter. You gave me one of the buttons — the ‘Choose to Be Curious’ buttons — and then I realized wow! there’s even a podcast about curiosity, so this must be really an interesting topic to study…You inspired me to keep going.” ~ Matthias Gruber Loyal listeners will recognize the name […]| Listening to the Universe
“Curiosity has so much to do with all of our lives, but in my work it is purely curiosity. It’s that sense of ‘Wow! This is such an amazing moment to be inspired by another person on the planet — a…| Listening to the Universe
“I don’t know if it’s lack of experience and us just not being deliberate about it — versus there’s a fundamental brain limitation. Could be either, but we don’t know.” ~ Venkatesh Murthy Lean into the language of smell with me: we sniff things out, we follow a scent. We’re nosey! Is this not curiosity, enacted? Embodied!? So what do we know […]| Listening to the Universe
“Something that’s difficult for people is: we all want to have answers, we all want to come to a definitive conclusion. And sometimes that’s not there — and we have to be okay with that.” …| Listening to the Universe
4 posts published by Lynn Borton during July 2025| Listening to the Universe
“Obviously in a ghost writing sphere, you’re tasked with asking questions — but, still, you have to be really aware of how those questions are going to land.” ~ Laura Zigman Some time ago, I was prepping for a conversation about optimism with the polymath Kevin Kelly. In a different interview he said something about ghost […]| Listening to the Universe
“I was interested in seeing how this experience would challenge and change me.” ~ Mikel Herrington In his 1961 inaugural address, President John F. Kennedy asked the country to consider its place in the world. He anchored it with a question — in curiosity — about how we might want to show up. So when the very programs […]| Listening to the Universe
“It’s not me, the pedagog in the classroom who has a certain responsibility, it’s me navigating the cultural landscape with the people in the room and saying, ‘Ah, look at this! Isn’t this interest…| Listening to the Universe
“The library can be a great refuge, if you will, for people who are questioning.” ~ Diane Kresh What happens to intellectual freedom when libraries come under attack? What happens to curiosity? Librarian and director of the Department of Libraries in Arlington, VA, Diane Kresh joins me to explore the long and storied history of bad-ass […]| Listening to the Universe
“In the moment, the curiosity must be around the culture of both parties, both speakers. Culture is language, language is culture. It’s all intertwined.” ~ Silvia Villacampa This week’s conver…| Listening to the Universe
4 posts published by Lynn Borton during June 2025| Listening to the Universe
“It is a tradition that is really interested in dwelling on a word, dwelling with a question.” ~ Rabbi Nancy Flam I’ve long wanted to do a series of conversations about curiosity in different faith practices. I come from the Quaker tradition, which centers “that of God” in each person and — in the version with which […]| Listening to the Universe
I was born in Berkeley. I’m celebrating a return to my roots and joining the Bay Area’s KPFA 94.1 FM line-up with a little (re)introduction to Choose to Be Curious. For those of you who are new, th…| Listening to the Universe
What do people who know and appreciate the river deeply see that I might not? The Mount Vernon Trail winds its way along the Potomac River, a bike and pedestrian path, combination national park and…| Listening to the Universe
