Search results for “when i am among the trees”
How to Bear Each Other’s Suffering: Elie Wiesel on the Antidote to Our Paralysis in the Face of World-Overwhelm
“I believe if people talk, and they talk sincerely, with the same respect that one owes to a close friend or to God, something will come out of that, something good. I would call it presence.”
What Is Time: 200 Years of Ravishing Reflections, from Borges to Nina Simone
“The moment is not properly an atom of time but an atom of eternity.”
Favorite Books of 2022
From Rumi to Blake to Nick Cave, by way of trees, hummingbirds, grief, and music.
Full Tilt: Dervla Murphy’s Fierce and Poetic Account of Traversing the World on Two Wheels in the 1960s
A wonder-smitten reminder “that for all the horrible chaos of the contemporary political scene this world is full of kindness.”
Book of Questions: Pablo Neruda’s Poetic Reckonings with the Magic and Mystery of Life, Illustrated
“Do unshed tears wait in little lakes?”
The Tragic Miracle of Consciousness: John Steinbeck on the True Meaning and Purpose of Hope
“Hope is a diagnostic human trait, and this simple cortex symptom seems to be a prime factor in our inspection of our universe.”
Nature and Transcendence: Emerson on How We Become Our Most Authentic Selves
“Here is sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes. Here we find nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance.”
Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny by Papa: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Almost Unbearably Sweet Account of Sole-Parenting His Small Son
“Mercy on me, was ever man before so be-pelted with a child’s talk as I am! It is his desire of sympathy that lies at the bottom of the great heap of his babblement.”
The Eternal Lyric of Love and Loss: “Goodnight Moon” Author Margaret Wise Brown’s Little-Known Poems for the Tragic Love of Her Life
“One who has dared to be gloriously good and gloriously bad in one life. No Limbo for her. Rather let life itself grow living monuments out of trees and living words so that death can never take from our half-lives this radiant living that was lived among us.”
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