Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Oliver Sacks, Rebecca Solnit, Bronson Alcott, Michael Pollan, Jamaica Kincaid, and more. | Continue reading
A two-wheel romp through the topography of progress from Victorian times to rural Spain to twentieth-century America. | Continue reading
Because grief, too, is a thing with feathers. | Continue reading
"Origin is ever-present. It is not a beginning, since all beginning is linked with time... not just the 'now'... or a unit of time. It is ever-originating, an achievement of full integration and continuous renewal." | Continue reading
A song of praise for that place in us housing “the past, the future, dwelling there, like space, inseparable together.” | Continue reading
“The high value put upon every minute of time, the idea of hurry-hurry as the most important objective of living, is unquestionably the most dangerous enemy of joy.” | Continue reading
How to fine-tune the internal monologue that scores every aspect of our lives, from leadership to love. | Continue reading
“There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause… We trace the round again; and are… Ifs eternally.R… | Continue reading
A vibrant celebration of flowers as “brilliant hopes, all woven in gorgeous tissues,” as “stars… wherein we read our history.” | Continue reading
“Out of the cradle onto the dry land… here it is standing… atoms with consciousness… matter with curiosity… I… a universe of atoms… an atom in the universe… | Continue reading
“Courage, devotion, the spirit of sacrifice, are as contagious as cowardice, submission, and panic.” | Continue reading
A playful and poignant what-if for the planet. | Continue reading
“Time renders most individual moments meaningless… but it is only through the passage of time that life acquires its meaning. And that meaning itself is constantly in flux.” | Continue reading
In the final years of his long life, which encompassed world wars and assassinations and numerous terrors, the great cellist and human rights advocate Pablo Casals urged humanity to "make this world worthy of its children."(themarginalian.org) | Continue reading
Time-travel to the dawn of modern medical science via the stunning art of a self-taught woman illustrator and botanist. | Continue reading
“If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.” | Continue reading
“The calm deposition of the rings… has gone on millimeter by millimeter for millennium after millennium — advancing ripples in the tide of time.” | Continue reading
“To love anybody is to expect something from him, something which can neither be defined nor foreseen; it is at the same time in someway to make it possible for him to fulfill this expectatio… | Continue reading
“You’ll long for me when I’m gone… You’ll kiss the headstone of my grave… Kiss my face instead!” | Continue reading
"When we really know something we feel we’ve always known it. Yet also it’s terribly distant, farther than any star… beyond the world, not in the clouds or in heaven, but a light that shows the world, this world, as it really is." | Continue reading
Aristotle, Alice, and a back flap. | Continue reading
“Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you. Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.” | Continue reading
“The way things were, the way we made things, it turns out, none of it was inevitable — none of it is the way things have to be.” | Continue reading
"By reaching beyond the brain... we are able to focus more intently, comprehend more deeply, and create more imaginatively — to entertain ideas that would be literally unthinkable by the brain alone." | Continue reading
A lyrical reminder that our terror and our tenderness spring from the same source. | Continue reading
In his short life, Aubrey Beardsley (August 21, 1872-March 16, 1898) became a pioneer of the Art Nouveau movement and forever changed the course of the graphic arts. He was an artist of elegant and unsentimental exaggeration, and yet beneath his grotesque aesthetic lay a subtle s … | Continue reading
"We share in the slow optimistic tendency of the universe... We have life and health and wholeness on the same terms as the trees, the flowers, the grass, the animals have, and pay the same price for our well-being, in struggle and effort, that they pay. That is our good fortune. … | Continue reading
A 90-second revelation in the heart, from humanity at its most purehearted. | Continue reading
"What an astonishing thing it is to find something. Children, who excel at it — chiefly because the world is still so new to them that they can’t help but notice it — understand this, and automatically delight in it." | Continue reading
In 1966, while leafing through an obscure book, a 19-year-old Japanese aspiring poet by the name of Setsuo Yazaki discovered a poem that stopped him up short with its staggering generosity of empathy and existential truth conferred with great simplicity: BIG CATCH At sunrise, glo … | Continue reading
“Those people who see clearly the necessity of changed thinking must themselves undertake the discipline of thinking in new ways and must persuade others to do so.” | Continue reading
A song of praise for life and “the smallest possible once before once.” | Continue reading
“Immortality is not a matter of more or less time.” | Continue reading
“We need a better word than chance… To go all the way form a clone of archaebacteria, in just 3.7 billion years, to the B-Minor Mass and the Late Quartets, deserves a better technical t… | Continue reading
The metaphysical made physical in a symphonic celebration of imagination, collaboration, and the human heart. | Continue reading
“For this we go out dark nights, searching… for signs of unseen things… Let there be swarms of them, enough for immortality, always a star where we can warm ourselves.” | Continue reading
“The over-all number of minds is just one.” | Continue reading
Wisdom on the elementary particles of the creative life and our shared humanity from Alain de Botton, Brené Brown, Elizabeth Alexander, and other visionaries of our time. | Continue reading
A look into “the very heart of nature’s double nature.” | Continue reading
“Mingle the starlight with your lives, and you won’t be fretted by trifles.” | Continue reading
“Every song I’ve ever written has been absolute torture… except for the ten or so songs the gods give you and that come out of nowhere.” | Continue reading
“These are the times in life — when nothing happens — but in quietness the soul expands.” | Continue reading
“…so brutal and alive it seemed to comprehend us back.” | Continue reading
“Trees are an invitation to think about time and to travel in it the way they do, by standing still and reaching out and down.” | Continue reading
“The more a creature’s life is worth, the less of it is alive.” | Continue reading
How flowers gave rise to life on Earth and made possible the human consciousness that came to see a world “thronged only with Music.” | Continue reading
How flowers gave rise to life on Earth and made possible the human consciousness that came to see a world “thronged only with Music.” | Continue reading
“It is through story… that we can distinguish what is true, and that we may glimpse, at least occasionally, how to live without despair in the midst of the horror that dogs and unhinges… | Continue reading