CityViews 12/6/12: Utah’s Wasatch Range/Practicing Happiness

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Segment 1:

What do the mountains – specifically the Wasatch Range – mean to you? From artists to activists to residents of all kinds, the Wasatch Mountains provide recreation, refuge and inspiration. On Thursday, we’ll talk about how the Wasatch Range feeds us physically and spiritually.

Guests:

• Howie Garber, photographer, “Utah’s Wasatch Range: Four Season Refuge”
• Sarah Bennett, activist and author

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Segment 2:

Happiness and living a happy life requires self-care and some work. That’s the argument by philosopher Jeffrey Nielsen. On Thursday, Nielsen joins us to explain how it is possible to be happy regardless of what is going on around us or happening to us.

Guest:

• Jeffrey Nielsen, philosophy instructor at Westminster College and Utah Valley University

Jeffrey Nielsen will deliver the lecture, “The Art of Being Human: The Practice of Happiness in the Present Moment,” on Sunday, Dec. 9 at 1:45 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City. Sponsored by the Forum for Questioning Minds, a non-profit which provides a forum for less-heard voices of interest to Utahns.

City Views was a daily public affairs program that ran on KCPW from 2011 to 2013. It was hosted by Jennifer Napier-Pearce, who later went on launch and host "Behind the Headlines," the weekly news roundup from KCPW and The Salt Lake Tribune. The show featured news reports and interviews with policymakers, local newsmakers and

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