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Emerson on the Singular Enchantment of Indian Summer (and a Better Term for This Liminal Season Today)

“There are days… wherein the world reaches its perfection, when the air, the heavenly bodies, and the earth, make a harmony.” For all the singular magic of autumn, there is also a singular enchantment to those unbidden days in it when summer seems to make a brief and bright return — as if to assure us that time is not linear but planar, that life...

Fri Nov 1, 2024 19:50
A Republic of the Sensitive: E.M. Forster on the Personal and Political Power of Empaths and the Relationship Between Creativity and Democracy

“I believe in… an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet.” “In time of the crises of the spirit, we are aware of all our need, our need for each other and our need for our selves,”...

Thu Oct 31, 2024 16:45
Beautiful Bacteria: Mesmerizing Photomicroscopy of Earth’s Oldest Life-forms

For as long as humans have been alive, we have mistaken the limits of our sense-perception for the full extent of reality — thinking our galaxy the only one, because that was as far as we could see; thinking life impossible below 300 fathoms, because that was as far as we could reach — only to discover, as we wield our minds to develop prosthetic extensions...

Tue Oct 29, 2024 20:10
The Galapagos and the Meaning of Life: A Young Woman’s Bittersweet Experiment in Inner Freedom

“We may think we are domesticated but we are not,” Jay Griffiths wrote in her homily on not wasting our wildness, insisting on the “primal allegiance” the human spirit has to the wild. A decade after artist Rockwell Kent headed to a remote Alaskan island “to stand face to face with that infinite and unfathomable thing which is the wilderness,” a young...

Sun Oct 27, 2024 19:08
18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian

Somewhere along the way, you realize that no one will teach you how to live your own life — not your parents or your idols, not the philosophers or the poets, not your liberal arts education or your twelve-step program, not church or therapy or Tolstoy. No matter how valuable any of that guidance, how pertinent any of that wisdom, in the end you discover...

Wed Oct 23, 2024 04:16
Everything Is Happening All the Time: Legendary Physicist John Archibald Wheeler on Death and the Life-Force

“To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier,” Walt Whitman writes in the prime of life. “What happens when you get to the end of things?” four-year-old Johnny in Ohio asks his mother from the bathtub while Whitman’s borrowed atoms are becoming young grass in a New Jersey cemetery. In his lifetime of nearly a century, John Archibald...

Tue Oct 22, 2024 23:17

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