Reads tagged with “books”
Delight as a Daily Practice: A Poetic Illustrated Meditation on the Meaning of Happiness and Its Quiet Everyday Sources
A lovely countercultural invitation to savor the unpurchasable joys with which the world is strewn.
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.”
Beginnings at the End of Love: Rebecca West’s Extraordinary Love Letter to H.G. Wells in the Wake of Heartbreak
“I am always at a loss when I meet hostility, because I can love and I can do practically nothing else.”
Patti Smith’s Imaginative Remedy for Insomnia
Soporific shadow theater of the mind, inspired by Melville.
Abraham Lincoln on Equality, the Slippery Slope of Exclusion, and How Nationalism Betrays the Nation’s Founding Ideals
A prescient admonition against the infinite regress of “except.”
Wendell Berry on Delight as a Force of Resistance to Consumerism, the Key to Mirth Under Hardship, and the Measure of a Rich Life
“The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, but between the superfluous and the indispensable. Wisdom… is always poised upon the knowledge of minimums; it might be thought to be the art of minimums.”
Bertrand Russell on How to Heal an Ailing and Divided World
“What is needed in our very complex modern society is calm consideration, with readiness to call dogmas in question and freedom of mind to do justice to the most diverse points of view.”
Nature’s Lessons in Gender Equality, Gender Diversity, and True Love: The Male Pregnancy of the Seahorse and the Fearless Trans Fish of the Coral Seas
What the weird, wondrous, otherworldly animals of this precious planet can teach us about being better creatures ourselves.
Edward Weston on the Most Fruitful Attitude Toward Life, Art, and Other People
“I feel towards persons as I do towards art, — constructively.”
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