{"product_id":"how-to-love-the-beautiful-broken-world-9781966302575","title":"How to Love the Beautiful, Broken World","description":"\u003cb\u003eA message of hope from a a beloved writer.  The world is still beautiful, even in its brokenness.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThis was the message \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Margaret Renkl shared in a 2023 speech to graduates at the University of the South in Sewanee. Preparing her remarks, she wondered what counsel she could possibly offer young people entering a professional world that looks incalculably different from the one she entered after college. She wondered, too, why this audience should trust her, when her generation is the one that wrecked so much of what should be precious. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInstead of offering advice for success, she decided to pass along the most important truth she has learned from simply living in the world: how to survive despair, one glimmer of light at a time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this short book, Renkl expands on her speech, drawing on her work as a teacher, journalist, author, and backyard naturalist to provide both inspiration and grounded guidance to anyone searching for hope in a troubled world. Yes, we are at a moment of great peril—to the earth, to democracy, to respect for human dignity. But, Renkl argues, realism and hope are not opposing views. All change begins with finding something to fight for and reasons to keep fighting. The living world, she reminds us, is still beautiful and redeemable—no matter how broken it might seem.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Margaret Renkl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49081576980731,"sku":"9781966302575","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/how-to-love-the-beautiful-broken-world-9781966302575","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}