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Between the Body and the Soul: Neri Oxman Reads Walt Whitman
A timeless song of praise for our belonging with “Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees,” with “night of the large few stars.”
The Best of Brain Pickings 2019
Love, poetry, friendship, solitude, and lots of trees.
The Universe in Verse: Bill T. Jones Performs Poet Ross Gay’s Ode to Our Highest Human Potentialities
“…scream and scream and scream until you break the back of one injustice…”
Ancestor Worship with Mother Nature: How Indigenous Death Rituals Illuminate the Web of Life
“For almost all oral cultures… the body’s decomposition into soil, worms, and dust can only signify the gradual reintegration of one’s ancestors and elders into the living landscape, from which all, too, are born.”
Faster Than Light: Marilyn Nelson Reads Her Exquisite Poem About the Purpose of Life and How Our Impermanence Both Frustrates and Fuels Our Creative Drive
“…a handful of dust trying to get back to supernova. Like every longing, everything alive.”
Until the End of Time: Physicist Brian Greene on the Poetry of Existence and the Wellspring of Meaning in Our Ephemeral Lives Amid an Impartial Universe
“From our lonely corner of the cosmos we have used creativity and imagination to shape words and images and structures and sounds to express our longings and frustrations, our confusions and revelations, our failures and triumphs.”
Favorite Books of 2019
From the hidden universe beneath our feet to delight as a countercultural force of courage and resistance, by way of Patti Smith, Toni Morrison, and the Greek myths.
Chaos, Time, and the Origin of Everything: Stephen Fry on How Ancient Greek Mythology and Modern Science Meet to Illuminate the Cradle of Being
Inside the “grand cosmic yawn” that gave us everything we’ve ever known (including the word “cosmos” itself).
Underland: An Enchanting Journey into the Hidden Universe Beneath Our Feet
“Into the underland we have long placed that which we fear and wish to lose, and that which we love and wish to save.”
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