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Why Are We Not Better Than We Are
“…a stillness in which the germ of what is not yet palpable pauses and gathers to begin one more time.” “A life of patient suffering… is a better poem in itself than we can any of us write,” the young...
View ArticleBut We Had Music: Nick Cave Reads an Animated Poem about How to Be More Alive
How, knowing that even the universe is dying, do we bear our lives? Most readily, through friendship, through connection, through co-creating the world we want to live in for the brief time we have...
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A Constellation of Amazements: An Illustrated Love Letter to the Joy of...
We are hunter-gatherers with a capacity for amazement, wired to search for an organizing principle by which to contain the chaos of reality. We organize what we find into categories and hierarchies,...
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How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps...
“Just how charitable are you supposed to be when criticizing the views of an opponent?” “In disputes upon moral or scientific points,” Arthur Martine counseled in his magnificent 1866 guide to the art...
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Loneliness, Resilience, and the Right Choice: Poet Diane Ackerman on What She...
“So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself.” “How are we so optimistic, so careful not to trip and yet do trip, and then get up and say OK?” Maira Kalman pondered in her...
View ArticleDavid Bowie on Creativity and His Advice to Artists
“It’s terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people’s expectations” Every creator’s creations are their coping mechanism for life — for the loneliness of being, for the longing for...
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Nietzsche on Walking and Creativity
“Our first questions about the value of a book, of a human being, or a musical composition are: Can they walk? Even more, can they dance?” Almost everything I write, I “write” in the notebook of the...
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Mister Rogers on the Most Important Mindset for a Parent
“It’s part of being human to fall short of that total acceptance and ultimate understanding — and often far short.” Being responsible for ourselves, knowing our own wants and meeting them, is difficult...
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The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on...
“Andersen had the courage to write stories with unhappy endings. He didn’t believe that you should try to be good because it pays … but because evil stems from intellectual and emotional stuntedness...
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Dostoyevsky on What Makes a Good Person
We know good people when we encounter them, when they fall upon our lives like a sunbeam, like a song. But we don’t always know what makes them good. It has, of course, a lot to do with kindness. It...
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Against Brute Force: D.H. Lawrence on the Superpower of Vulnerability
“Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy.” We live in a culture that has warped strength from the measure of our interior...
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The Dandelion and the Meaning of Life: G.K. Chesterton on How to Live in Wonder
Recovering the “forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence” alive in the back of our modernity-deadened minds. There is a myth we live with, the myth of finding the meaning of life —...
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How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s...
“The alternations between love and its denial, suffering and denial of suffering … constitute the most essential and ubiquitous structural feature of the human heart.” “The state of enchantment is one...
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Ocean of Stars: A Painted Poem About How to Bear the Astonishment of Life
Here we are, bewildered miracles of chemistry and chance, trembling embers of dead stars capable of sign and song, a wild bet against probability that won. We have dreamt up origin myths and...
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The Common Language of Science: Einstein’s Clarion Call to Divided Humanity...
“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem — in my opinion — to characterize our age.” What makes Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879–April 18, 1955) endure as “the quintessential modern genius”...
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How to Say “YES” to Your Life
It started with an urn for living gone wrong, the clay kiltering off center, resisting my every effort to force it back into shape. The harder I pushed to control it, the more it took on a life of its...
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Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death
“The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia.” We are born into the certitude of our eventual death....
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James Baldwin’s Advice on Writing
“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.” In 1989, Paris Review founding editor and...
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What Happens When We Die
“How can a creature who will certainly die have an understanding of things that will exist forever?” When my atheist engineer grandfather died, my atheist engineer grandmother leaned over the body in...
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David Bowie Answers the Famous Proust Questionnaire
“Q: What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? A: Living in fear.” In the 1880s, long before he claimed his status as one of the greatest authors of all time, teenage Marcel Proust (July 10,...
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