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9/1/2024
13 : 4
You and the universe, the psychology of waiting, a tender illustrated fable about the stubborn courage of making the impossible possible
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8/20/2024
2 : 15
Of Stars, Seagulls, and Love: Loren Eiseley on the First and Final Truth of Life
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8/11/2024
5 : 24
Iris Murdoch on how to see more clearly and love more purely, pioneering visualizations of the human voice, what makes life alive
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8/4/2024
12 : 14
Tove Jansson on trauma and self-renewal; Kierkegaard on the key to resetting relationships; Grace Paley on the courage of imagining other lives
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8/1/2024
23 : 24
A mini Universe in Verse this October
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7/28/2024
5 : 34
An Almanac of Birds: Divinations for Uncertain Days
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7/21/2024
10 : 4
Leonard Cohen's antidote to anger; great writers, artists, and scientists on the rewards of solitude; an illustrated field guide to the clouds
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7/14/2024
10 : 24
Joseph Brodsky on the cure for existential boredom, Octavia Butler on religion and the spirituality of symbiosis, Richard Jefferies on transcendence
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7/7/2024
10 : 24
Let the last thing be song; what birds dream about and how it illuminates the role of dreams in our lives; Wendell Berry on the cure for conflict
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6/30/2024
10 : 4
Albert Camus on how to live whole in a broken world, Anne Morrow Lindbergh on the beach and the soul, an illustrated celebration of the changing light
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6/23/2024
10 : 4
Befriending a blackbird, Terry Tempest Williams on change and denial, an illustrated celebration of how John Cage revolutionized music through silence
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6/16/2024
10 : 14
The paradoxes and possibilities of changing, the continuous creative act of seeing clearly, art at the border of the mathematical and the miraculous
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6/9/2024
13 : 4
Polyvagal theory and the neurobiology of connection, John Quincy Adams on impostor syndrome, a tender vintage Japanese meditation on love and loss
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6/3/2024
10 : 24
The art of self-renewal, Darwin on wonder and the spirituality of nature, Hemingway on loss and the meaning of life
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6/3/2024
8 : 17
Darwin on the spirituality of wonder, Hannah Arendt on love and how to live with the fundamental fear of loss, the eclipse that went extinct
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5/19/2024
17 : 14
The art of self-revision and the courage to change your mind, what it's like to be a falcon, flowers for things you don't know how to say
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5/12/2024
13 : 4
The door at the end of your suffering, the most important thing to remember about your mother, the poetic science of how cicadas sing
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5/4/2024
22 : 4
On love and desire, The Universe in Verse book, inside the creative process of beloved artists
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4/27/2024
22 : 4
The merger self, the seeker self, and the difficult balance of intimacy and independence; attention as devotional practice; goodbye Moon
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4/20/2024
22 : 4
D.H. Lawrence on how to live with our conflicting parts, magnolias and the meaning of life, shame as a portal to self-understanding and wholeness
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