Search results for “pandemic”
To a Wreath of Snow: Patti Smith Reads Emily Brontë
In praise of the “voiceless, soulless messenger” that comforts and sustains.
Trees, Rivers, and the Exquisite Interdependence of Life: Artist Meredith Nemirov’s Consummate Map Paintings
“To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.”
The Banquet of Life: Some of the Finest Advice on Growing Old, Growing Young, and Becoming Your Fullest Self
“People ask: ‘Would you or would you not like to be young again?’ Of course, it is really one of those foolish questions that never should be asked, because they are impossible… You cannot unroll that snowball which is you: there is no ‘you’ except your life — lived.”
From Living Tree Bridges to AI Systems: A Design Catalogue of Optimism and Resilience for a More Livable Future
“Design is the enzyme that helps people face and metabolize change.”
Into the Heart of Life: Richard Powers on Living with Bewilderment at the Otherworldly Wonder of Our World
“That’s the ruling story on this planet. We live suspended between love and ego.”
Favorite Books of 2022
From Rumi to Blake to Nick Cave, by way of trees, hummingbirds, grief, and music.
The Choreography of Everyday Life: A Leaping Antidote to Our Modern Loneliness
Finding that vitalizing “a reciprocity between us perceiving the world together through art, and the world in turn reading us through what we make.”
Unselfing Social
An invitation.
The Unphotographable #3: Alaskan Paradise with Rockwell Kent
Sometimes, a painting in words is worth a thousand pictures. I think about this more and more, in our compulsively visual culture, which increasingly reduces what we think and feel and see — who and what we are — to what can be photographed. I think of Susan Sontag, who called it “aesthetic consumerism” half a century before Instagram. In a small act of resistance, I offer The Unphotographable — every Saturday, a lovely image in words drawn from centuries of literature: passages transcendent and transportive, depicting landscapes and experiences radiant with beauty and feeling beyond what a visual image could convey.
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