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Favorite Books of 2022
From Rumi to Blake to Nick Cave, by way of trees, hummingbirds, grief, and music.
16 Life-Learnings from 16 Years of The Marginalian
Reflections on keeping the soul intact and alive and worthy of itself.
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.”
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.”
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.”
The Log from the Sea of Cortez: John Steinbeck’s Forgotten Masterpiece on How to Think and the Art of Seeing the Pattern Beyond the Particular
“Everything impinges on everything else… Everything is potentially everywhere.”
A Different Solitude: Pioneering Aviator Beryl Markham on What She Learned About Life in the Bottomless Night
“I learned what every dreaming child needs to know — that no horizon is so far that you cannot get above it or beyond it.”
Cloud Chambers and Cosmic Rays: The Quest to Unravel One of the Most Dazzling Mysteries of the Universe
Silk, vapor, and the substance of life.
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.”
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