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Making Space: An Illustrated Ode to the Art of Welcoming the Unknown
Making Space: An Illustrated Ode to the Art of Welcoming the Unknown

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From the Labor Camp to the Pantheon of Literature: How Dostoyevsky Became a Writer
From the Labor Camp to the Pantheon of Literature: How Dostoyevsky Became a Writer

“I have nothing, except for certain, and perhaps very minor, literary abilities.”

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How to Wait Better: The Psychology of Withstanding Absence and Missing Someone You Love
How to Wait Better: The Psychology of Withstanding Absence and Missing Someone You Love

On “the capacity to bear frustration without turning against one’s needy self, or against the person one needs.”

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Rupture Precedes Revolution: Geologist Turned Psychoanalyst Ruth Allen on Boundaries and Limits as Frontiers of Transformation and Growth
Rupture Precedes Revolution: Geologist Turned Psychoanalyst Ruth Allen on Boundaries and Limits as Frontiers of Transformation and Growth

“At almost every conceivable level of our imagining, it is impossible to create a change without a discontinuity, without a moment of not knowing who we are, or what we are going to become. Rupture precedes revolution.”

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Turning to Stone: A Geologist’s Love Letter to the Wisdom of Rocks
Turning to Stone: A Geologist’s Love Letter to the Wisdom of Rocks

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Audubon on Other Minds and the Secret Knowledge of Animals
Audubon on Other Minds and the Secret Knowledge of Animals

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Kamau & ZuZu Find a Way: A Tender Lunar Fable about the Stubborn Courage of Making the Impossible Possible
Kamau & ZuZu Find a Way: A Tender Lunar Fable about the Stubborn Courage of Making the Impossible Possible

“But we will have to find a way to live, as people do.”

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You and the Universe: N.J. Berrill’s Poetic 1958 Masterpiece of Cosmic Perspective
You and the Universe: N.J. Berrill’s Poetic 1958 Masterpiece of Cosmic Perspective

“The universe is as we find it and as we discover it within ourselves.”

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Winnicott on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind and a Healthy Relationship
Winnicott on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind and a Healthy Relationship

“A sign of health in the mind is the ability of one individual to enter imaginatively and yet accurately into the thoughts and feelings and hopes and fears of another person; also to allow the other person to do the same to us.”

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We Go to the Park: A Soulful Illustrated Meditation on Our Search for Meaning
We Go to the Park: A Soulful Illustrated Meditation on Our Search for Meaning

“Sometimes it feels as if all of life is made up of longing.”

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