“Slow is not better than fast. It’s just different. Everything changes, regardless of pace, and direct firsthand experience of temporality can happen while you are strolling just as much as w… | Continue reading
“All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured.” | 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
Art and science between the practical and the poetic. | Continue reading
A rhapsody of wonder between the scale of atoms and the scale of minds. | Continue reading
“There is no rigid barrier between makers of culture and its consumers. Art belongs to all and is a ‘function’ of society.” | Continue reading
“If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don’t read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated.” | Continue reading
“If you think long enough about what you see in a cat, you begin to suppose you will understand everything, but its eyes tell you there is nothing to understand, there is only life.” | Continue reading
The euphoria experienced as you begin to fall in love, the pile of books bought but unread, the coffee “threefill,” and other lyrical linguistic delights. | Continue reading
“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.” | Continue reading
Stunning images that occupy the lacuna between art and science. | Continue reading
A lyrical time-capsule of human history being made under the unblinking eye of cosmic time. | Continue reading
A bittersweet story of staggering talent, obsessive curiosity, countercultural courage, and posthumous redemption. | Continue reading
“Never stop battling for the survival of your own unique stamp.” | Continue reading
“The paradoxical effect of losing a loved one is that their sudden absence can become a feverish comment on that which remains… a luminous super-presence.” | Continue reading
“Cynics might point to a system of governments, corporations, and technologies so broken that attempts to change it from the edges are futile. But cynics don’t build the future.” | Continue reading
A lush serenade to the patience and fortitude of living with uncertainty and letting life unfold on its own terms. | Continue reading
In praise of practicing the inevitable through the improbable, the mundane moments when we are “as delicate as we can be in this life.” | Continue reading
“One must possess oneself, and be alone in possession of oneself.” | Continue reading
“Ah! how could I possibly quit the world before bringing forth all that I felt it was my vocation to produce?” | Continue reading
“Anchor the eternity of love in your own soul… Lean toward the whispers of your own heart… Release the need to hate, to harbor division, and the enticement of revenge… But w… | Continue reading
“Do we not know the feeling that overtakes us when we are in the presence of a particular person and, roughly translates as, The fact that this person exists in the world at all, this alone m… | Continue reading
How to protect yourself from the “misuse and violation of the sacred portions of your personality.” | Continue reading
The story of two uncommonly courageous people who met in their twenties and spent the rest of their lives determined “to help each other, so one day all people could have rights.” | Continue reading
“We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.” | Continue reading
A celebration “of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family” as “the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.&#… | Continue reading
“In the hollow… I sate for a long while sheltered, as if I had been in my own study in which I am now writing: there I sate with a total feeling worshipping the power and ‘eternal… | Continue reading
In praise of anemone and dust and “the smallest possible once before once.” | Continue reading
“Words have more power than any one can guess; it is by words that the world’s great fight, now in these civilized times, is carried on.” | Continue reading
A consummate celebration of the improbable loveliness of life amid the edgeless panorama of cosmic being. | Continue reading
“That there is not a wise Purpose in every thing that is made because we do not understand it, is as absurd as for a Man to say, there is no such thing as Light, because he is blind and has n… | Continue reading
A glorious ode to claiming one’s belonging in that space between starshine and clay. | Continue reading
“Children know something that most people have forgotten. Children possess a fascination with their everyday existence that is very special and would be very helpful to adults if they could l… | Continue reading
A poetic instrument for observing and redrawing the spectrum of privilege and possibility. | Continue reading
“To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.” | Continue reading
Art and science between the practical and the poetic. | Continue reading
“The world… flourishes only in and as the variance among the beings that comprise it. Difference is at the origin of the world: it ‘worlds.’” | Continue reading
“Brown-sugar boy in a blanket of white. Bright as the day you came onto the page. From the hand of a man whose life and times, and hardships, and heritage, and heroes, and heart, and soul led… | Continue reading
On the consolations of monarchs and of stars. | Continue reading
“I’m so unused to being happy that I haven’t really come to terms with what it involves… I feel like a garden that’s finally been watered, so my flowers can bloom.” | Continue reading
On talent, violence, visibility, and the world-shifting power of women helping women. | Continue reading
“You have made men to be not ashamed of the noblest instinct of their nature.” | Continue reading
A miniature revolutionary with his eyes on the stars, his heart on the ground, and his courage lightyears beyond of his era’s horizons stands up for the future with his only ally. | Continue reading
“There is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth. It is a moment of reflective repose before we devote ourselves t… | Continue reading
A fierce anthem for the alternative to destruction. | Continue reading
“Until each breath refuses they, those, them…” | Continue reading
A subversive Victorian-tinted infusion of romantic realism. | Continue reading
“All the loveliness that is in nature came to me with such a surge of deep happiness.” | Continue reading