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How to Be Human: Kahlil Gibran’s Recipe for Our Spiritual Perfection as a Species
1 day ago
We walk this earth as bewildered animals trying to recover the divinity...
Thanks: W.S. Merwin’s Ode to the Defiant Courage of Gratitude in a Broken World
5 days ago
It is not easy, in these lives haunted by loneliness and loss...
Love Against Probability
6 days ago
You wouldn’t have bet on it, this battered rock orbiting a star...
A Lamentation for Linnaeus: In Praise of Confusion and Rewilding Wonder
9 days ago
Long ago, we traded the trees for tools, trying to bend the...
If You Forget Me: Pablo Neruda’s Staggering (Un)breakup Poem
11 days ago
Love is a fire that takes two to keep burning, but one...
Chasing Fog: The Science and Spirituality of Nature’s Grounded Cloud
12 days ago
One day not long after I moved to New York, I looked...
How to Love the World More: Artist and Poet Rachel Hébert’s Breathtaking Catalogue of Gratitudes
15 days ago
Here we are, living these lives bright and perishable as a poppy...
Midnight Motorbike: A Lullaby of Wonder for the Sleepless, Inspired by the Whimsy of South India
17 days ago
You know that moment late into the night when the body, famished...
How to Fix Breakdowns in Communication
19 days ago
Two people meet, discover an uncommon electricity flowing between them, exhilarate each...
Against the Cartesian Myth of Work/Life Balance: André Gregory’s Extraordinary Letter to Richard Avedon about the Nature of Creativity
20 days ago
Half a millennium into our recovery from the civilizational wound Descartes inflicted...
Words: Pablo Neruda’s Love Letter to Language
25 days ago
“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker...
How to Be a Lichen: Adaptive Strategies for the Vulnerabilities of Being Human from Nature’s Tiny Titans of Tenacity
28 days ago
The hero of the modern myth is the victim, the emblem of...