Midweek Pick-Me-Up: The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven's \"Ode to Joy\"
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Editors’ Picks: Ukraine isn’t Putin’s war—it’s Russia’s war
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The art of solitude – a Buddhist scholar on contemplative practice and creativity
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Nobel-winning poet Wisława Szymborska on the creative power of uncertainty
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May Sarton on the art of living alone, a 17th-century antidote to fear in love, pioneering psychoanalyst Karen Horney on the key to self-realization
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21/05/2023
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Midweek pick-me-up: 200 years of great artists and writers on the creative and spiritual rewards of gardening
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Lived experience is knowledge
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10/12/2022
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Midweek pick-me-up: How to keep love from breaking — wisdom on presence and respect from philosopher Martin Buber
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10/08/2022
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Midweek pick-me-up: May Sarton on the cure for despair and why solitude is the seedbed of self-discovery
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03/08/2022
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The remarkable story behind Beethoven's \"Ode to Joy,\" Rebecca Solnit reads a century-old love poem to trees by an 18-year-old Harlem Renaissance poet
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22/05/2022
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200 years of great writers and artists on the creative and spiritual rewards of gardening
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Top stories of 2021 | Is Amazon good for small business?
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23/12/2021
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Midweek pick-me-up: A lifeline for the hour of despair—James {NAME} on 4AM, the crux of love, and staying alive as a moral obligation to the universe
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01/12/2021
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How (not) to love, or, unbreaking our hearts by breaking our patterns; Ursula K. Le Guin's love-poem to life, death, and trees; the art of solitude
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24/10/2021
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Midweek pick-me-up: How do we know what we want? Milan Kundera on the central ambivalences of love and life
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13/10/2021
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Midweek pick-me-up: May Sarton on the cure for despair and why solitude is the seedbed of self-discovery
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06/10/2021
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09/07/2021
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Sea snot: What is it, exactly?
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10/06/2021
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Sylvia Plath on living with the darkness and making art from the barely bearable lightness of being, Bronson Alcott on gardening and genius, and more
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23/05/2021
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Midweek pick-me-up: Getting out of your own light — Aldous Huxley on mind-body integration and how you become who you are
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12/05/2021
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Can you spot the eggs in this photo?
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06/05/2021
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Explore America with us this fall
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01/05/2021
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Revel in joy on a music and art immersion
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05/02/2021
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Midweek pick-me-up: Adrienne Rich on love
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20/01/2021
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Midweek pick-me-up: May Sarton on the cure for despair and why solitude is the seedbed of self-discovery
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13/01/2021
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Midweek pick-me-up: Hannah Arendt on loneliness as the common ground for terror and how tyrannical regimes use isolation as a weapon of oppression
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01/10/2020
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Midweek pick-me-up: Life, loss, and the wisdom of rivers
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03/09/2020
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Midweek pick-me-up: Elizabeth Gilbert on love, loss, and how to move through grief as grief moves through you
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23/07/2020
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John Lewis on love, forgiveness, and the seedbed of personal strength – remembering a rare hero who enlarged the human heart for epochs to come
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18/07/2020
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David Byrne's buoyant countercultural hymn of optimism, resistance, and resilience; Sophie Scholl on courage; stunning Great Barrier Reef illustration
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16/05/2020
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Midweek pick-me-up: Anne Lamott on how we endure and find meaning in a crazy world
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12/03/2020
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Midweek pick-me-up: The definitive manifesto for handling haters – Anne Lamott on priorities and refusing to keep yourself small by people-pleasing
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05/03/2020
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Midweek pick-me-up: May Sarton on the cure for despair and solitude as the seedbed of self-discovery
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27/02/2020
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What it takes to grow up and what it means to have grown; Marcus Aurelius in love; physicist Brian Greene on our cosmic search for meaning
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23/02/2020
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Inner wholeness, our greatest obstacle to happiness, and the body as the seedbed of a flourishing soul; the enchantment of cacti; the bilingual mind
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Drones probe floors for flaws
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02/01/2020
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How Kepler invented science fiction and defended his mother in a witchcraft trial while revolutionizing our understanding of the universe
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29/12/2019
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Midweek pick-me-up: Amin Maalouf on belonging, conflict, and how we inhabit our identity
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09/05/2019
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Timeless advice on love from a forgotten 19th-century genius, Virginia Woolf and the fate of all technology, a poetic celebration of science
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07/04/2019
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Fast-charging pioneer picks Greater Bay Area
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Toni Morrison on wisdom in the age of information, a lyrical illustrated meditation on loneliness, Anne Gilchrist's stunning love letters to Whitman
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10/03/2019
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Ursula K. Le Guin on creativity and integrity in a market society, John Muir on the transcendent interconnectedness of nature, and more
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30/12/2018
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Anne Lamott on forgiveness, self-forgiveness, and the relationship between brokenness and joy, Nabokov on wonder, artists celebrate the love of books
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09/12/2018
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Elizabeth Gilbert on love and loss, Rebecca Solnit on rewriting the world's broken stories, a stunning illustrated celebration of the wilderness
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21/10/2018
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A beautiful tribute to Stephen Hawking, Olivia Laing on life, loss, and the wisdom of rivers, how to befriend the universe, and more
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27/05/2018
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Albert Camus on the courage to create dangerously, how Carl Sagan inspired Maya Angelou, Erich Fromm on the life-expanding art of spontaneity
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13/05/2018
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Rilke on creativity, Erich Fromm on the paradox of inner freedom, Lynn Margulis on the spirituality of science, and more
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22/04/2018
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Stephen Hawking on the meaning of the universe, Hannah Arendt on the pursuit of happiness, Thoreau on nature as a form of prayer
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18/03/2018
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Annual special: The year's loveliest children's books (for \"kids\" of all ages)
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18/12/2017
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An illustrated celebration of solitude, the unheralded women codebreakers who fought WWII at the intersection of language and mathematics, and more
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17/12/2017
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Walt Whitman on the wisdom of trees, Oliver Sacks on the 3 essential elements of creativity, Carl Sagan on literature as a force of democracy and more
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12/11/2017
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Alain de Botton on infatuation, Ursula K. Le Guin on storytelling, \"The Universe in Verse\" in full, the central mystery of consciousness, and more
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03/06/2017
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Rosanne Cash on how science saved her life and her beautiful reading of Adrienne Rich's tribute to Marie Curie, Primo Levi on happiness, and more
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07/05/2017
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Erich Fromm on what self-love really means, Amanda Palmer reads Neil Gaiman's feminist poem about science, Ursula K. Le Guin on writing, and more
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30/04/2017
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Neil Gaiman on how to tell a great personal story, Meryl Streep sings her mother's lullaby, an anthem against the silencing of science, and more
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23/04/2017
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Erich Fromm's 6 rules of listening and unselfish understanding, Borges on the paradox of the self, Elizabeth Alexander on the power of art, and more
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09/04/2017
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Rebecca Solnit on silence, Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska on the creative fertility of not-knowing and how our certitudes keep us small, and more
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01/04/2017
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[RESEND: Server outage fixed] The loveliest picture-book since The Little Prince, artist Agnes Martin on our greatest obstacle to happiness, and more
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26/03/2017
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The loveliest, most profound picture-book since The Little Prince, Agnes Martin on our greatest obstacle to happiness, Erich Fromm on the sane society
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25/03/2017
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Today's Headlines: Door-Busting Drug Raids Leave a Trail of Blood
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19/03/2017
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Gusto: It's Edgefest times three at Artpark
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13/03/2017
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How to know everything about everything, Nina Simone on time, Alan Turing on love and loss, Bruce Lee on authenticity and the key to success, and more
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25/02/2017
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Hannah Arendt on how tyrants use loneliness as a weapon of oppression, Susan Sontag on the conscience of words, David Bohm on creativity, and more
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24/12/2016
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Marina Abramović's manifesto for solitude and silence, physicist David Bohm on dialogue and what is keeping us from listening to one another, and mor
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17/12/2016
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Why our partners drive us mad, Toni Morrison on the power of language, Tim Ferriss on how he survived suicidal depression, and more
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10/12/2016
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The dark side of IQ and why we can't measure intelligence, the paradoxical seedbed of courage and cultural resilience, and more
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03/12/2016
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Mary Oliver on how books saved her life, Ursula K. Le Guin on writing, Alan Watts on the antidote to the loneliness of the divided mind, and more
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05/11/2016
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An atlas of NYC's notable women, May Sarton on the cure for despair, and more