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8/20/2023
10 : 14
Audre Lorde on the relationship between eros, creativity, power, and joy; a watercolor ode to the courage of authenticity; Virginia Woolf vs. Hitler
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8/14/2023
10 : 54
Dostoyevsky on animal rights and the deepest meaning of human love, a tender cosmic fable about living with loss, the power of the artist
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8/6/2023
10 : 4
The ant, the grasshopper, and the antidote to the cult of More; Kevin Kelly's life-tested advice on living; the power of being an outsider
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7/30/2023
10 : 14
Simone Weil on love, how to say goodbye, the donkey and the meaning of life
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7/23/2023
10 : 14
Louisa May Alcott on the creative rewards of being single, parenting advice from Mister Rogers, the wondrous birds of the Himalayas
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7/16/2023
13 : 14
Love's work and the value of getting it wrong, how to be animal (and more fully human), a tender illustrated parable of friendship
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7/9/2023
10 : 14
How people change, Hermann Hesse on wonder and how to be more alive, a tender modern fable about reversing the Anthropocene
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7/2/2023
10 : 14
May Sarton on the work of happiness, John Berger on the power of music, the forgotten Scottish philosopher John Macmurray on the key to wholeness
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6/25/2023
10 : 4
Love and chance, the power of our expectations, the wondrous space telescope eye of the scallop
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6/20/2023
5 : 34
Kierkegaard on the value of despair, Javier Marías on the courage to trust your intuitions, some thoughts about the ocean and the universe
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6/12/2023
2 : 3
Robert Louis Stevenson on what makes life worth living, William James on the art of connection, Richard Jefferies on nature as prayer for presence
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6/4/2023
10 : 14
The paradox of free will, artist René Magritte on the courage of enchantment, physicist David Bohm on wholeness
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5/28/2023
10 : 15
Alain de Botton on the challenge of closeness, John Steinbeck on what we look for when we are looking, Ada Limón's stunning love poem to life
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5/21/2023
10 : 14
May Sarton on the art of living alone, a 17th-century antidote to fear in love, pioneering psychoanalyst Karen Horney on the key to self-realization
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5/14/2023
10 : 14
Matter and our search for meaning, attention as an instrument of love, Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" brought to life in a Spanish flashmob of 100 musicians
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5/7/2023
10 : 14
Octavio Paz on love, Maya Angelou on writing, Oliver Sacks on ChatGPT 30 years before ChatGPT
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4/30/2023
10 : 14
Let your heart be broken, a stunning century-old field guide to secular transcendence and seeing the heart of reality, Henry James on losing a mother
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4/26/2023
21 : 14
Midweek pick-me-up: An antidote to the irreversibility of life — Hannah Arendt on what forgiveness really means
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4/23/2023
10 : 14
Nick Cave's advice on life, May Sarton on writing and gardening, Thoreau on living through loss
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4/19/2023
5 : 55
How to love the world more: George Saunders on the courage of uncertainty; magnolias and the meaning of life; the art of lying fallow
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