Bruce Feiler
speaker
802 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Jun
Bruce Feiler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A ritual is a shared unnecessary act that makes us feel at home.
It's the glue that holds society together.
I've started calling it the original human algorithm.
It's a mechanism by which the group tends itself.
Well, I appreciate this question, and this is where it started for me.
I mean, to sort of go back a little bit, my wife Linda and I went from empty nest to full nest in 32 minutes 21 years ago when we became the parent of identical twin daughters.
And 18 years later, we had the inverse happen.
We went from full nest to empty nest when we dropped them off at different sides of the same college campus.
And we—
I drove back to Brooklyn Heights where we live and I walked through the front door, as you say, and I felt – and it was so distinct, Jonathan.
Like this was the feeling.
Like I wasn't searching for the right word, right?
You know, I'm that kind of person.
Like what am I – I knew it right away.
I felt homesick in my own home.
And my initial instinct was don't tell anybody about this.
Like that is not an acceptable word to use in public discourse in this day and age.
Like that's what a child feels when they go on their first sleepover or what an adolescent feels the opening days or weeks of sleepaway camp.
But that's what I felt.
It wasn't just my children.
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