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Lisa Napoli
Goodreads Author
Born
in New York City, The United States
October 31, 1963
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Influences
Member Since
May 2010
Give what you can, take what you need: A social experiment in generosity
Rush hour, Union Station, a busy Thursday night. In the long passageway that connects the gates, a crowd is forming; a cluster of iPhones trained on the wall not far from the gold line, where I am heading. Pretty quickly I see what’s causing the fuss: A giant blackboard-sized mural with dollar bills thumb-tacked onto it.
The headline reads: GIVE WHAT YOU CAN TAKE WHAT YOU NEED.
Those who
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“THE BUDDHISTS WOULD SAY that everything you need is right here, within you. There’s no need to seek outside yourself for the answers. Nothing—no place, no person—can complete you or make you happy. The longer I live, the more I see and experience, the more certain I am that this is true. And yet, occasionally, a shakeup in location, or in the company you keep, can touch you in just the right way, awaken something inside you. At precisely the moment you need it. Timing”
― Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in the Happiest Kingdom on Earth
― Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in the Happiest Kingdom on Earth
“Joan Kroc, I found myself learning more than I ever imagined about this incredible, inventive, and underrecognized philanthropist, one of the greatest of a generation. Mrs. Kroc was seen as the savior of public radio for her landmark posthumous gift to NPR. Selling a book on her incredible life proved impossible until we learned that a Hollywood depiction of her husband was under way; after recasting the book with his name in the title, we found a publisher.”
― Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR
― Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR
“Lindy attended Newcomb, sister school to the elite private university Tulane, “the Harvard of the South.”
― Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR
― Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR
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