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Music and the Body: Richard Powers on the Power of Song

Music and the Body: Richard Powers on the Power of Song

“The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.”

Sing, Don’t Scream: D.H. Lawrence on the Strength of Sensitivity

Sing, Don’t Scream: D.H. Lawrence on the Strength of Sensitivity

“Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy.”

First Kiss: An Animated Ode to One of Life’s Great Felicities

First Kiss: An Animated Ode to One of Life’s Great Felicities

“…if the Great Mother rushed open the moon like a gift and you were there to feel your shadow finally unhooked from your wrist…”

Artist Nina Katchadourian’s Otherworldly Plants Made of Trash and Tenderness

Artist Nina Katchadourian’s Otherworldly Plants Made of Trash and Tenderness

A haunting invitation to reckon with the relationship between nature and human nature, consumption and creativity, and the mind’s indomitable capacity for playful wonderment.

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