Dear Readers: This week, continuing with the theme of tears, I am reading an article I wrote last year that takes its inspiration from the final lines of Wordsworth’s great “Ode on the Intimations of Immortality” — especially the final line of all, “Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.” How do we raise children — or raise ourselves — to know the feelings that Wordsworth knew?
The text of today’s podcast was published in The American Spectator.
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