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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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