Episode 14: Living in Awe - Can We Feel It?

What does it mean to live with an open heart when the world around us feels so closed?

In this episode of Living Quadratos, Alexander John Shaia and Brown Thoroughgood return to their table of friendship with a conversation about awe, presence, and the mysterious promise that is woven through our days - even the most difficult of times.

Together they explore Mary’s ancient prayer - not simply as a prayer to be memorized and recited, but as a practice of remembering what is already unfolding even when we cannot yet see how or when.

Perhaps, then, the invitation is not to fix everything or to carry the weight of the future ourselves, but to remain present in whatever moment we are in - to the person in front of us in line at the grocery story, to the beauty around us, and to the quiet mystery of what is actually becoming - even when we fear all is lost.

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