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Margaret Atwood on Marriage
“Marriage is not a house or even a tent…”
The Key to Good Love: Relationship Lessons from Trees
“I think of good love as something that roots, not rots, over time, and of the hyphae that are weaving through the ground below me, reaching out through the soil in search of mergings.”
Autumn Light: Pico Iyer on Finding Beauty in Impermanence and Luminosity in Loss
“What do we have to hold on to? Only the certainty that nothing will go according to design; our hopes are newly built wooden houses, sturdy until someone drops a cigarette or match.”
How to Punctuate with Style: Lewis Thomas’s Charming Meditation on the Subtleties of Language
“If you want to use a cliché you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.”
A Fuller Picture of Human Personality: Iris Murdoch on How Art Helps Us Reimagine Freedom, Moral Life, and Our Inner Worlds
“The connection between art and the moral life has languished because we are losing our sense of form and structure in the moral world itself… We need a new vocabulary of attention.”
The Book of Delights: Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness
“The more you study delight, the more delight there is to study… I felt my life to be more full of delight. Not without sorrow or fear or pain or loss. But more full of delight.”
How to Disappear: The Art of Listening to Silence in a Noisy World
“Silence is the presence of time undisturbed.”
Ancestor Worship with Mother Nature: How Indigenous Death Rituals Illuminate the Web of Life
“For almost all oral cultures… the body’s decomposition into soil, worms, and dust can only signify the gradual reintegration of one’s ancestors and elders into the living landscape, from which all, too, are born.”
Lorraine Hansberry, the Love of Freedom, and the Freedom of Love
“Ahead of her time, Lorraine’s witness and wisdom help us understand the world, its problems and its possibilities. In her lonely reckonings, her impassioned reaching for justice, and the seriousness of her craft, she teaches us how to more ethically, more lovingly, witness one another today.”
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