# Meditation on Love and the Song

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Podcast: [Holiness for the Working Day](https://stenobird.com/podcast/holiness-for-the-working-day-562220)
Published: 2026-04-23T01:16:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 1849

## Resource

On a dusk walk through Old Town, a chance encounter with a young man swooning outside his girlfriend's window becomes a meditation on one of the deepest hungers of modern life. Drawing on Joseph Pieper, Thomas Aquinas, and the medieval contemplative tradition, this episode explores why only the lover truly sees, and why that matters for everything from friendship and prayer to the quiet poverty underneath all our productivity. If modern life has trained us to move through the world like a camera, objective and detached, what does it cost us? And what would it mean to become a lover again, to let reality actually get through, and sing?

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