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- 10/24/2021 - 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
- 10/22/2021 - Becoming the Marginalian — after 15 years, Brain Pickings reborn
- 10/17/2021 - Alain de Botton on the importance of breakdowns, Thich Nhat Hanh on deep listening and the 3 Buddhist steps to repairing relationships, and more
- 10/10/2021 - A painted poem about us and the cosmos; MLK's lost lectures on technology and the 3 ways of resisting the system; how a virus gave tulips their beauty
- 10/03/2021 - Love, death and Whitman. George Saunders on the two keys to storytelling. Alan Turing, the world's first digital music, and the poetry of the possible
- 09/26/2021 - Marcus Aurelius on the good luck of your bad luck; magnetism, the hippocampus and what makes us ourselves; autumn and the sensual urgency of aliveness
- 09/19/2021 - How to become a gifted listener; a tender illustrated fable about our capacity for change; the courage to defy cynicism and revise the world's givens
- 09/12/2021 - The blue horses of our destiny: artist Franz Marc, the wisdom of animals, and beauty as resistance to brutality; Chekhov on how (not) to be a writer
- 09/05/2021 - The jazz of trees, physicist Alan Lightman's poetic lens on time and the antidote to the anxiety of aliveness, Derek Jarman on night and transcendence
- 08/29/2021 - Bob Dylan on vulnerability, integrity, and music as an instrument of truth; an illustrated love letter to rivers; an animated query of consciousness
- 08/21/2021 - Music and the mystery of aliveness, panpsychism and the enigma of consciousness, the author of "The Little Prince" on wonder in the age of machines
- 08/14/2021 - The unbearable lightness of being opaque to ourselves: Milan Kundera on storytelling; water and transcendence; trees, whales, and our digital future
- 08/08/2021 - The optimism of the oyster, Edward Weston on creativity, Virginia Woolf on the power of nature and the transcendence of a total solar eclipse
- 08/01/2021 - David Whyte on true love and breaking our self-imposed limits, Richard Dawkins on luckiness of death, biomimicry pioneer Janine Benyus on resilience
- 07/25/2021 - Art and aliveness, the ultimate animated primer on the Theory of Everything, the remarkable life and art of pioneering plant ecologist Edith Clements
- 07/18/2021 - Do people change, the art of ending painful relationships, Hannah Arendt on what forgiveness (really) means, poet Naomi Shihab Nye's advice on writing
- 07/11/2021 - John Coltrane on creativity and perseverance against rejection, poet Jane Hirshfield on the power and magic of metaphor, gorgeous 19th-century plants
- 07/04/2021 - Rilke on the relationship between solitude, love, sex, and creativity; Emily Dickinson's botany; the science of how the brain forms and frays memories
- 06/26/2021 - How our loves reveal who we are, an illustrated serenade to aliveness and seeing the world with newborn eyes, and a great forgotten love story
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