A rare and rapturous glimpse of the slow double embrace by which some of Earth’s tenderest creatures make more of themselves. | Continue reading
A bittersweet signal from the discomposing territory between reason and hope. | Continue reading
“Through your words I feel so close to you that I can feel your laughter, so clean and honest.” | Continue reading
Words of comfort and compassion from Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Rachel Carson, Charles Darwin, Alan Turing, Johannes Brahms, and Charles Dickens. | Continue reading
“The price an artist pays for doing what he wants is that he has to do it.” | Continue reading
“The art of losing isn’t hard to master.” | Continue reading
“Books read us back to ourselves… The escape into another story reminds us that we too are another story. Not caught, not confined, not predestined.” | Continue reading
A collaborative praise song for “indifference banished by love.” | Continue reading
“Things have roots and branches… If the root be in confusion, nothing will be well governed.” | Continue reading
“We do not know why we are born into the world, but we can try to find out what sort of world it is.” | Continue reading
“Nothing can equal the psychological effect of real art — neither factual descriptions nor intellectual discussion.” | Continue reading
Strange signals from the lacuna between street art and microbiology. | Continue reading
“The very task of love and of language is to give to one and the same phrase inflections which will be forever new.” | Continue reading
“The day ends. The night falls. And in between… there is the blue hour.” | Continue reading
…with a side of Virginia Woolf’s elated infatuation. | Continue reading
Voluptuaries of geometry and color, elaborate living urns, lavish lampshades for the place of some sea god, miniature Hindu temples, gorgeous drag queens of the deep, otherworldly amphoras from the… | Continue reading
“Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.” | Continue reading
A subtle celebration of the terrifying tenderness that makes life barely survivable but also makes it worth living. | Continue reading
“Love your hands! Love them. Raise them up and kiss them… Love your neck; put a hand on it, grace it, stroke it and hold it up… Love your heart. For this is the prize.” | Continue reading
How the warm rays of hope and healing enter the dark inner chamber of leaden loneliness through the unexpected cracks of kindness. | Continue reading
A love story, a time story, an invitation not to mistake difference for defect and to welcome, across the accordion scales of time and space, diversity as nature’s wellspring of resilience an… | Continue reading
“Anybody who shifts gears when he writes for children is likely to wind up stripping his gears… Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not … | Continue reading
The wonder of wading into the black lake boiling with light. | Continue reading
A glance over the shoulder of time to reveal the patterns, themes, and ideas that steady us and shelter us in the tempest of life. | Continue reading
“Envy those who see beauty in everything in the world.” | Continue reading
“Not because happiness exists, that over-hasty profit from imminent loss, not out of curiosity, or to practice the heart… But because being here is much, and because all that’s here seems to … | Continue reading
“No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused.” | Continue reading
Branchings of belief from the lovely common root of “holy” and “whole” in the interleaving of all things. | Continue reading
From the weeping willow to the oak, a watercolor serenade to the science and poetics of our ancient silent companions. | Continue reading
Audre Lorde, Keith Haring, Bruce Lee, chance, love, black holes, constraint as a catalyst of creativity, and a whisper of Whitman. | Continue reading
A story of transmuting the grief of one life into a celebration of the grandeur of Life. | Continue reading
A song of praise for “all souls, all living bodies though they be ever so different… all nations, colors… all identities that have existed or may exist… all lives and deaths… | Continue reading
Why our instinctive efforts to salve another’s sadness tend to only deepen their helpless anguish and broaden the abyss between us and them — and what to do instead. | Continue reading
“In time of struggle… all people think about love.” | Continue reading
“The final and absolute test of good government is the well-being and contentment of the people — not the extent of empire or the abundance of the revenue and the trade.” | Continue reading
“There is nothing more revealing than to see a thinking person walking, just as there is nothing more revealing than to see a walking person thinking… Walking and thinking are in a perp… | Continue reading
“Our experiences trump everything else, but mostly, those experiences are incredibly skewed: they teach us, but they don’t teach us well.” | Continue reading
A pleasurable warping of the figuring faculty to contemplate what was there before the before. | Continue reading
A humanistic love letter to who and what we are, together on this lonesome, wild, and wondrous rock adrift around a common star. | Continue reading
Life-affirming inspiration from a man who knew intimately “that intensity of thought, which will some times wear the sweetest idea thread-bare and turn it to the bitterness of death.” | Continue reading
How to fine-tune the internal monologue that scores every aspect of our lives, from leadership to love. | Continue reading
An ancient antidote to our greatest vulnerability from the great Buddhist teacher and Zen elder Thich Nhat Hanh. | Continue reading
A painted dance in praise of the best we can do. | Continue reading
How to master a singular flavor of kindness we rarely afford others but always demand for ourselves. | Continue reading
“It is the most supremely interesting moment in life, the only one in fact when living seems life.” | Continue reading
A sweet serenade to our shared belonging. | Continue reading
…with a funny and poignant meditation on the personal gravity of gratitude and why being grateful is “one of the most powerful things that any one person can do.” | Continue reading