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Do you have a mind that is hungry for for new and challenging ideas? Are you searching for a community where you can learn together with your fellow neighbours? Are you looking for welcoming place to share all your beautiful thoughts? Then it's time to pull up a seat at the Hungry Minds table and get all filled up. There's a great variety of topics - you are sure to find something to whet your appetite here.
Upcoming events
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The Power of the Powerless
Community Room - 150 Queen St S, 150 Queen St South ,, Kitchener, ON, CAA year ago we took up Timothy Snyder's book On Freedom. During that session we brought up another book - The Power of the Powerless by Václav Havel. Since then we have mentioned it several times in our discussions and our Prime Minister has drawn heavily from it in a little speech he gave in Davos. We think it's time to look at this short book again and all of the little gems of wisdom it contains. Below you'll find a link where you can read the pdf of it and we can share the ebook as well - message Tess if you want it.
Here's the pdf link to Václav Havel's long essay The Power of the Powerless. The whole essay is quite good, but if you're short on time you can cut out sections XII to XIX where he talks more about the nature of dissidence and dissident groups in Czechoslovakia. It's hard to see where Section XII starts in the linked pdf - it is in the first paragraph on pg 34. If you're skipping the less pertinent, you can pick up again at Section XX on pg 72.
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You, treats and your brain - Book discussion
Tess' Backyard, 49 Cedar St S, Kitchener, ON, CAWe are going to read a terrific, refreshing, entertaining, surprising book that is also brief, illustrated, and widely discussed: Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett (2021).
https://www.amazon.ca/Seven-Half-Lessons-About-Brain/dp/035864559X/We invite you to come and discuss the book with us. And have treats! Feel free to bring something simple that can be passed around the table.
The print book is available through the KPL and WPL, and the ebook is also at the KPL. Contact Tess if you are interested in the audiobook and ebook. 192 pages, and four hours for the audiobook.
Bring a story to share about your brain. An experience you’ve had, or a story, etc. The brain feels like a car that we drive around in, but the emerging science suggests that maybe it drives us.
Some further resources follow in the comments below. You can make our day if you show up and tell us you went through the book. But really, the book will make your day. See you soon!
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