The art of self-renewal, Darwin on wonder and the spirituality of nature, Hemingway on loss and the meaning of life
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Midweek Pick-Me-Up: The Cello and the Nightingales
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The art of self-revision and the courage to change your mind, what it's like to be a falcon, flowers for things you don't know how to say
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Midweek pick-me-up: Oliver Sacks on the healing power of nature and music
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The door at the end of your suffering, the most important thing to remember about your mother, the poetic science of how cicadas sing
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Midweek Pick-Me-Up: The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven's \"Ode to Joy\"
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On love and desire, The Universe in Verse book, inside the creative process of beloved artists
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Midweek pick-me-up: Hermann Hesse on hope and the wisdom of the inner voice
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The merger self, the seeker self, and the difficult balance of intimacy and independence; attention as devotional practice; goodbye Moon
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D.H. Lawrence on how to live with our conflicting parts, magnolias and the meaning of life, shame as a portal to self-understanding and wholeness
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21/04/2024
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Midweek pick-me-up: Dostoyevsky, just after his death sentence was repealed, on the meaning of life
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17/04/2024
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The conciliation of our inner conflicts, a dictionary of invented words for what we feel but cannot name, an illustrated celebration of animal homes
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14/04/2024
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Midweek pick-me-up: The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel
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10/04/2024
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William James on love, Marie Howe's stunning hymn of humanity, Nick Cave reads an animated poem about black holes, eternity, and how to bear our lives
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07/04/2024
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Midweek pick-me-up: Virginia Woolf's arresting 1927 account of a total solar eclipse
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03/04/2024
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An ecology of intimacies, Carl Jung's legacy and the countercultural courage to reclaim the deeply human in a posthuman age
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31/03/2024
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The Universe in Verse 2024: Totality (Free Livestream April 7)
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Midweek pick-me-up: Annie Dillard on the sublimity of a total solar eclipse
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27/03/2024
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Love anyway
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Midweek pick-me-up: Rebecca Solnit on writing, gardening, and the life of the mind
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20/03/2024
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George Saunders on how to live an unregretting life, Hannah Arendt and the art of beginning afresh, Rachel Carson's lost ode to the science of the sky
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17/03/2024
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Midweek pick-me-up: The day Dostoyevsky discovered the meaning of life in a dream
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13/03/2024
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Middle age and our search for meaning, Oliver Sacks on the secret life of chocolate, moonlight and the magic of the unnecessary
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10/03/2024
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Midweek pick-me-up: Kahlil Gibran on silence, solitude, and the courage to know yourself
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06/03/2024
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The other significant others, how to live with remorse and wrest from it defiant joy in living, Alice and the paradox of nature writing
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03/03/2024
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Midweek pick-me-up: The Lost Words — an illustrated dictionary of poetic spells reclaiming the language of nature
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28/02/2024
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How emotions are made, Hermann Hesse on discovering the soul beneath the self and the key to finding peace, the Moomins on control and surrender
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25/02/2024
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Midweek pick-me-up: Alain de Botton on the importance of breakdowns
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21/02/2024
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When relationships change, Nick Cave on the two pillars of a meaningful life, and a poem
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18/02/2024
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Midweek pick-me-up: The Truelove — poet and philosopher David Whyte on reaching beyond our limiting beliefs about what we deserve
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14/02/2024
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Thich Nhat Hanh on true love and the 5 rivers of self-knowledge, a neurobiologist on the art of allowing change, Loren Eiseley on the miraculous
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11/02/2024
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Wilderness, solitude, and creativity — artist and philosopher Rockwell Kent's century-old meditation on art and life during 7 months in remote Alaska
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07/02/2024
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Henry Miller on the antidote to despair, the enchanting science of cloud chambers and cosmic rays, philosopher Jacob Needleman on time and the soul
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04/02/2024
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Midweek pick-me-up: Bruce Springsteen on surviving depression and his strategy for living through the visitations of the darkness
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31/01/2024
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How to Be Un-Dead: Anaïs Nin and D.H. Lawrence on the Key to Living Fully
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24/01/2024
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What it's like to be an owl, sentimentality and being mortal, what makes a compassionate world
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21/01/2024
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The art of solitude – a Buddhist scholar on contemplative practice and creativity
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17/01/2024
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Hermann Hesse on the two souls within us, blue glass, Virginia Woolf on illness as a portal to self-understanding
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14/01/2024
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Announcing The Universe in Verse 2024: Totality
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13/01/2024
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An antidote to helplessness and disorientation from the great humanistic philosopher and psychologist Erich Fromm
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10/01/2024
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Love and mystery, how groups of birds got their names (\"a murder of crows,\" \"a parliament of owls\"....), what makes life alive
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07/01/2024
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(More) resolutions for a vibrant and rewarding life borrowed from inspiring humans (James {NAME}, Kurt Vonnegut, Bertrand Russell, Rilke, and more)
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03/01/2024
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A Spell Against Stagnation: John O'Donohue on Beginnings
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31/12/2023
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The Best of The Marginalian 2023, in One Place
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29/12/2023
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Resolutions for a life worth living
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27/12/2023
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The Truelove, the power of a thin skin, applying the 6 principles of athletic training to writing and creative work
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24/12/2023
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Favorite Children's Books of 2023 — tender reckonings with friendship, fear, love, solitude, black holes, time, and the interconnectedness of life
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21/12/2023
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The art of choosing love over not-love — Rumi on the antidote to our human tragedy
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20/12/2023
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Annual Special: Favorite Books of 2023
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20/12/2023
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New from Tim — \"Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova\"
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19/12/2023
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The paradox of transformative experiences, poetic ecology and the biology of wonder, the sky and the soul
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17/12/2023
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Octavia Butler on creativity, the generative power of our obsessions, and how we become who we are
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13/12/2023
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The light between us, the whyless wonder of the birds-of-paradise, Henry Miller on friendship and the relationship between creativity and community
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10/12/2023
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The essence of friendship — poet and philosopher John O'Donohue on the beautiful ancient Celtic notion of \"soul-friend\"
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06/12/2023
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How to apologize, philosopher Martha Nussbaum on the litmus test for love, and an illustrated celebration of the art of shared solitude
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03/12/2023
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The Thing Itself — C.S. Lewis on what we long for in our existential longing
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29/11/2023
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The deeper meanings of friendship, love, and heartbreak, the majesty and mystery of night migration, necessary losses and the art of letting go
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25/11/2023
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As If to Demonstrate an Eclipse — Billy Collins's delightful meditation on gratitude
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22/11/2023
A tender illustrated celebration of the many languages of love, the first scientist's guide to truth, reflections on war
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19/11/2023
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What happens when we die
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15/11/2023
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Blue is the color of desire, May Sarton on generosity, Philip Glass on art, science, and the mark of a visionary
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12/11/2023
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The art of being alone
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08/11/2023
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From stardust to sapiens, bell hooks on love, a painted epic poem about the science of black holes and warped spacetime
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05/11/2023
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Music and the body – Richard Powers on the power of song
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01/11/2023
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Alain de Botton on the qualities of a healthy mind, Lucille Clifton on how to be a living poem, the magic and mystery of murmurations
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29/10/2023
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Every loss reveals what we're made of: The fascinating science of why leaves change color and the ongoing mystery of chlorophyll
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25/10/2023
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17 life-learnings from 17 years of The Marginalian
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23/10/2023
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To be a person; human nature and the nature of reality; a moving wordless story about war, hope, and keeping the light alive
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22/10/2023
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Nobel laureate Louise Glück's love poem to life at the horizon of death
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18/10/2023
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Roxane Gay on love, Nick Cave on faith and the importance of trusting yourself, an illustrated love letter to deep time and Earth's memory
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15/10/2023
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A beginning, not a decline — Colette on the splendor of autumn and the autumn of life
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11/10/2023
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Ursula K. Le Guin on change, menopause as rebirth and the civilizational value of elders; Dostoyevsky in love; Maxine Kumin's superb poem \"After Love\"
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08/10/2023
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Nobel-winning poet Wisława Szymborska on the creative power of uncertainty
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04/10/2023
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Alan Watts on how to own your weakness, a tender illustrated meditation on how to find and bear your inner light, and a stunning poem
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01/10/2023
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“Little Prince” author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on what the Sahara Desert taught him about the meaning of life
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27/09/2023
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Mars and our search for meaning, Octavia Butler's advice on writing (which applies to all creative practice), an uncommon meditation on presence
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24/09/2023
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The pattern inside the pattern: fractals, the hidden order beneath chaos, and the story of the refugee who revolutionized the mathematics of reality
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20/09/2023
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Virginia Woolf on the courage to be yourself and how to hear your soul, Milan Kundera on the power of coincidences, the half-life of hope
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17/09/2023
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Frida Kahlo on how love amplifies beauty
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13/09/2023
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Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl's lost lectures on the deepest source of meaning
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06/09/2023
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A Buddhist scientist on complexity and the murmuration of being; poems celebrating gardening; a neuroscience pioneer on the spirituality of nature
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03/09/2023
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Quantum pioneer Erwin Schrödinger on bridging Western science and Eastern philosophy to reckon with the mystery of what we are
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30/08/2023
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Spell against indifference, Bertrand Russell's salve for our helpless overwhelm, Camus on writing and the importance of stubbornness in creative work
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27/08/2023
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Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on how to live with our human fragility
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23/08/2023
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Audre Lorde on the relationship between eros, creativity, power, and joy; a watercolor ode to the courage of authenticity; Virginia Woolf vs. Hitler
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20/08/2023
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Midweek pick-me-up: A Stoic's key to peace of mind — Seneca on the antidote to anxiety
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16/08/2023
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Dostoyevsky on animal rights and the deepest meaning of human love, a tender cosmic fable about living with loss, the power of the artist
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13/08/2023
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Midweek pick-me-up: How Ernst Haeckel turned his personal tragedy into transcendent art in the service of science
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09/08/2023
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The ant, the grasshopper, and the antidote to the cult of More; Kevin Kelly's life-tested advice on living; the power of being an outsider
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06/08/2023
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Vacation and the art of presence: Anaïs Nin on how to truly unplug and inhabit your senses
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02/08/2023
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Simone Weil on love, how to say goodbye, the donkey and the meaning of life
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30/07/2023
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Midweek pick-me-up: Rilke on inspiration and the combinatorial nature of creativity
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26/07/2023
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Louisa May Alcott on the creative rewards of being single, parenting advice from Mister Rogers, the wondrous birds of the Himalayas
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23/07/2023
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Midweek pick-me-up: Georgia O'Keeffe on success, public opinion, and what it means to be an artist
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19/07/2023
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Love's work and the value of getting it wrong, how to be animal (and more fully human), a tender illustrated parable of friendship
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16/07/2023
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Midweek pick-me-up: Ursula K. Le Guin on creativity, storytelling, and the power of language to transform and redeem
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12/07/2023
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How people change, Hermann Hesse on wonder and how to be more alive, a tender modern fable about reversing the Anthropocene
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09/07/2023
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Midweek pick-me-up: The science of sleep, the poetics of yawns, and Maurice Sendak's cure for insomnia
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05/07/2023
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May Sarton on the work of happiness, John Berger on the power of music, the forgotten Scottish philosopher John Macmurray on the key to wholeness
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02/07/2023
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Midweek pick-me-up: The paradox of personal transformation