Search results for “listening is telling”
Dismantling the Dogmas of Life and Death: How the Forgotten Prodigy William James Sidis Presaged the Quantum Undoing of Time and Thermodynamics
“There is no way of telling whether we are living organisms in a positive universe, or pseudo-living organisms in a negative universe.. The difference is really one merely between the two directions of time, and, though those two directions are opposite to each other, they have no physical properties which are in any way different.”
Resolutions for a Life Worth Living: Attainable Aspirations Inspired by Great Humans of the Past
Life-tested wisdom on how to live from James Baldwin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Leo Tolstoy, Seneca, Toni Morrison, Walt Whitman, Viktor Frankl, Rachel Carson, and Hannah Arendt.
Music and the Mystery of Aliveness
“We are a music-making species — always have been, always will be — and music’s capacity to explore, express and address what it is to be human remains one of our greatest communal gifts.”
Grammy Award-Winning Jazz Vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant Reads Audre Lorde’s Poignant Poem “The Bees”
A fierce anthem for the alternative to destruction.
Consolation for Sorrow from King Arthur’s Court: Merlyn’s Advice on What to Do When the World Gets You Down
“Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.”
Sonic Hieroglyphics and Acoustic X-Ray Vision: The Fascinating Science of How Dolphins and Whales Communicate
How Victorian astronomy helped decode the secret language of the seas.
Kinship: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Love Poem to Trees, Transience, and Eternity
A lyrical reminder that “the word for world is forest” and the feeling of forest is love.
The Tree House: A Tender Wordless Story about Our Relationship to Nature
An ecological symphony between the bears and the deep blue sea.
Poet Ross Gay on the Body as an Instrument of Thought and the Delights of Writing by Hand
In praise of the manual-mental “loop-de-looping we call language.”
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