In this particularly challenging year, today’s show centers around the garden. With stay-in-place orders and many furloughed, they’ve found the garden. Those who work with the earth have known for years that there’s a magical quality to gardening. Sue Stuart-Smith talks about her new book, “The Well-Gardened Mind – The Restorative Power of Nature”. Stuart-Smith’s own love of gardening developed as she studied to become a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She infuses stories of her grandfather’s return from World War I to Freud’s obsession with flowers to case histories with her own patients to progressive gardening programs in such places as Rikers Island prison in New York City, Stuart-Smith weaves thoughtful yet powerful examples to argue that gardening is much more important to our cognition than we think. suestuartsmith.com
Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger
Lisa Unger is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author. With books published in twenty-six languages and millions of copies sold worldwide, she is
October 12, 2020
