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The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to Lasting Love
“Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment.”
Anne Pratt’s Flowers, Ferns, Quiet Ferocity: How a Middle-Aged Victorian Woman Became One of the Great Masters of Scientific Illustration
“The beauty of a flower… may serve to awaken an interest in nature, which shall not sleep again.”
Trees at Night: Rebecca Solnit Reads and Reflects on a Stunning Century-Old Poem by the Young Harlem Renaissance Poet Helene Johnson
An eighteen-year-old prodigy’s song of praise for the eternal consolation of trees.
The Ever-Present Origin: Swiss Poet, Philosopher, and Linguist Jean Gebser’s Prescient 1949 Vision for the Evolution of Consciousness
“Origin is ever-present. It is not a beginning, since all beginning is linked with time… not just the ‘now’… or a unit of time. It is ever-originating, an achievement of full integration and continuous renewal.”
How to Fix a World: A Four-Year-Old’s Prayerful Poem, Animated by a Ukrainian Artist
An 84-second revelation in the heart, from humanity at its most purehearted.
July 3, 1947: The Young Jack Kerouac Coins “Beat” While Grieving His Father
“My conscience of life and eternity is not a mistake, or a loneliness, or a foolishness — but a warm dear love of our poor predicament.”
So I Danced Again: A Vibrant Animated Meditation on the Limits of Words and the Power of Embodied Music in our Search for Meaning
Sound, color, and wonderment where the body meets the soul.
The Science of Working Out the Body and the Soul: How the Art of Exercise Was Born, Lost, and Rediscovered
“A history of exercise is not really — or certainly not only — a history of the body. It is, equally, perhaps even primarily, a history of the mind.”
David Byrne’s Illustrated History of the Possible Future
“The way things were, the way we made things, it turns out, none of it was inevitable — none of it is the way things have to be.”
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