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Waking Up: David Whyte on the Power of Poetry and Silence as Portal to Presence
“The object in meditation and all of our contemplative disciplines is silence… in order for you to perceive something other than yourself… Poetry is the verbal art-form by which we can actually create silence.”
Love, Loss, and the Banality of Survival: Charles Darwin, His Beloved Daughter, and How We Find Meaning in Mortality
A bittersweet signal from the discomposing territory between reason and hope.
Dignity, Daring, and Disability: The Pioneering Queer Composer and Defiant Genius Ethel Smyth on Making Music While Going Deaf
…with a side of Virginia Woolf’s elated infatuation.
Nobel Laureate Louise Glück’s Love Poem to Life at the Horizon of Death
A subtle, stunning serenade to the lifelong hunger for self-love and self-forgiveness.
The Haunting Beauty of Snowflakes: Wilson Bentley’s Pioneering 19th-Century Photomicroscopy of Snow Crystals
The quest to capture nature’s vanishing masterpieces, endowed with the delicacy of flowers and the mathematical precision of honeycombs.
Maria Mitchell’s Telescope and the Kickstarting of Popular Astronomy: The Heartening Story of the World’s First Crowdfunding Campaign for Science
“Patient thought, patient labor, and firmness of purpose are almost omnipotent.”
Frida Kahlo’s Passionate Love Letter to Photographer Nickolas Muray, Who Took Her Most Famous Portrait
“Through your words I feel so close to you that I can feel your laughter, so clean and honest.”
Tenacity, the Art of Integration, and the Key to a Flexible Mind: Wisdom from the Life of Mary Somerville, for Whom the Word “Scientist” Was Coined
Inside the hallmark of a great scientist and a great human being — the ability to hold one’s opinions with firm but unfisted fingers.
A Curious Herbal: Gorgeous Illustrations from Elizabeth Blackwell’s 18th-Century Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants
Time-travel to the dawn of modern medical science via the stunning art of a self-taught woman illustrator and botanist.
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