Search results for “bridge”
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.
Murmuration: A Stunning Animated Poem About Our Connection to Nature and to Each Other
A collaborative praise song for “indifference banished by love.”
The Twin Root of Our Confusion and Our Power in Times of Turmoil: Muriel Rukeyser on the Wellspring of Aliveness
“Whatever has happened, whatever is going to happen in the world, it is the living moment that contains the sum of the excitement, this moment in which we touch life and all the energy of the past and future.”
Octavia Butler on Creativity, the Generative Power of Our Obsessions, and How We Become Who We Are
“Love quiets fear. And a sweet and powerful positive obsession blunts pain, diverts rage, and engages each of us in the greatest, the most intense of our chosen struggles.”
The Love of Truth and the Truth of Love: Bertrand Russell on the Two Pillars of Human Flourishing
“Love is wise, hatred is foolish.”
Mass, Energy, and How Literature Transforms the Dead Weight of Being: Jeanette Winterson on Why We Read
“Books read us back to ourselves… The escape into another story reminds us that we too are another story. Not caught, not confined, not predestined.”
New Year’s Eve: Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Spare, Stunning Meditation on the Mystery of Being
The wonder of wading into the black lake boiling with light.
To Believe in Things: Poet Joseph Pintauro’s Lost Love Poem to Life, Illustrated by the Radical Nun and Visionary Artist Sister Corita Kent
“You are not everything but everything could not be everything without you.”
Audre Lorde on Poetry as an Instrument of Change and Feeling as an Antidote to Fearing
“As they become known to and accepted by us, our feelings and the honest exploration of them become sanctuaries and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas… a safe-house for that difference so necessary to change.”
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