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Last updated about 5 hours ago
Dawn: A Watercolor Ode to the Primeval Conversation Between Our Living Planet and Its Dying Star
about 5 hours ago
“You have found an intermediate space… where the passing moment lingers, and...
Wonder, Play, and How to Be More Alive
2 days ago
We build our lives around structures of certainty — houses to live...
Things Become Other Things: Walking, Forgiveness, and Belonging in the Mountains of Japan
5 days ago
Steps are events, experiments, miniature rebellions against gravity and chance. With each...
Blink Twice to Quell a Quasar: Carl Sagan on Superstition
10 days ago
Growing up in Bulgaria, in a city teeming in stray dogs and...
How to Be a Happier Creature
14 days ago
It must be encoded there, in the childhood memories of our synapses...
The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity
16 days ago
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales,”...
Kiss: Ellen Bass’s Stunning Ode to the Courage of Tenderness as an Antidote to Helplessness
19 days ago
There is no greater remedy for helplessness than helping someone else, no...
Hold On Let Go: Urns for Living and the Art of Trusting Time
19 days ago
Ceramics came into my life the way the bird divinations had a...
A Plasticity of Being: What a Rare Bird of Prey Reveals about the Deepest Meaning of Intelligence
22 days ago
“True teachers are called into being by the contradictions generated by civilization,”...
Doris Lessing on How to Read a Book and How to Read the World
27 days ago
Born in Iran and raised in Zimbabwe, Doris Lessing (October 22, 1919–November...
The Canyon and the Meaning of Life
29 days ago
Anything you polish with attention will become a mirror. Anything to which...
Is It Not Wonderful to Be Alive: Edward Lear’s Parrots
about 1 month ago
In the late summer of 1832, England was set aflame with wonder...