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- 09/27/2020 - Paul Klee on creativity and how an artist is like a tree, Frederick Douglass on the wisdom of the minority and the real meaning of solidarity, and RGB
- 09/20/2020 - Special: 13-year-old Ruth Bader Ginsburg on prejudice, its antidote, the path to justice, and the 5 documents that shaped humanity
- 09/20/2020 - Mary Oliver's antidote to melancholy; a 19th-century guide to cosmic consciousness and the 6 steps to illumination; the Sun, the shadow, and the self
- 09/13/2020 - Keith Haring on loving life in the face of death, Mary Oliver on what an owl taught her about happiness, the author of "The Little Prince" on love
- 09/06/2020 - Mountains and the meaning of life, Walt Whitman's workout, a manifesto for walking as spiritual and creative empowerment
- 08/30/2020 - Octavia Butler on how (not) to choose our leaders, a neuroscientist on the similarity between drug withdrawal and heartbreak, Gertrude & Alice's love
- 08/23/2020 - Poet and philosopher David Whyte on walking into the questions of our becoming; the existential philosophy of cats; the social psychology of delusion
- 08/16/2020 - Creativity in the time of COVID: Zadie Smith on writing, love, and the habit-stripped self; the ancient art of walking mediation; psychedelic fish.
- 08/09/2020 - Manifesto for a moral revolution, Patti Smith reads Emily Dickinson, Chinua Achebe on art as a form of citizenship and creativity as communal practice
- 08/02/2020 - Nick Cave on living with loss and grief as a portal to aliveness, how two 19th-century teenage sisters sparked a feat of modern conservation, and more
- 07/26/2020 - An illustrated love letter to gardening, D.H. Lawrence on trees, solitude and how we root ourselves when relationships collapse, and a staggering poem
- 07/19/2020 - Viktor Frankl on how music, nature, and our love for each other succor our survival and give meaning to existence, Virginia Woolf on reading, and more
- 07/18/2020 - John Lewis on love, forgiveness, and the seedbed of personal strength – remembering a rare hero who enlarged the human heart for epochs to come
- 07/12/2020 - Singularity, Eleanor Roosevelt, music, human rights, the transcendence of storms
- 07/05/2020 - The stuff of stars and serpents
- 07/05/2020 - A stunning illustrated ode to the native poetry of science and this interconnected universe; Frederick Douglass and the queen of astronomy; and more
- 06/28/2020 - Keith Haring and his irrepressible art of hope, unforgetting the pioneer who became America's first internationally celebrated black artist, and more
- 06/21/2020 - 200 years of beloved writers on nature as an antidote to depression, Leibniz on how difference dignifies the world, and more
- 06/20/2020 - A small coruscating delight: vintage science face masks
- 06/14/2020 - Moomins creator Tove Jansson's gorgeous letters to the love of her life; the science of when time really began; Audre Lorde's poignant poem "The Bees"
