It was the spring of 1967. The producers at WQED, a small public television station in Pittsburgh, had a problem.

“They had launched a children’s program—an odd, quiet little show that aired across the East Coast—and now that show was out of sponsorship money,” Daniel Coyle writes in his book Flourish: The Art of Building Meaning, Joy, and Fulfillment.

The producers worried the show would be a tough sell … continue reading

Author Oliver Burkeman and his family recently moved from Brooklyn to the North York Moors in northern England.

“Which means that very often in the early mornings, carrying a flask of hot coffee, I get to stroll along a lane with spectacular views across a valley to the heather-topped ridge beyond,” he writes in Meditations for Mortals.

“In winter, the pink light of sunrise pours itself slowly over fields … continue reading