Reads tagged with “culture”
Kiss of the Sun: Poetry, Love, and Our Search for Meaning at the End of Time
A spare guide to making joyous peace with “the end of time, which is also the end of poetry (and wheat and evil and insects and love).”
Rare Butterflies and Unsung Pollinators: Gorgeous 18th-Century Drawings by the First Artist and Naturalist to Depict the Wing-borne Beauty of the New World
The world’s first pictorial glimpse of the strange and wondrous creatures that give our planet its scent and color.
Growing Through Grief: Derek Jarman on Gardening as Creative Redemption, Consecration of Time, and Training Ground for Presence
“The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or end… Here is the Amen beyond the prayer.”
Naomi Shihab Nye’s Beloved Ode to Kindness, Animated
“Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.”
Seeking an Aurora: A Wondrous Illustrated Celebration of Earth’s Most Otherworldly Spectacle of Light and Color
Transcendence and tenderness in the lacuna of awe between the creaturely and the cosmic.
The Stoic Antidote to Frustration: Marcus Aurelius on How to Keep Your Mental Composure and Emotional Equanimity When People Let You Down
The art of tempering your fury with an infuriating existential truth.
Tangerine Meditation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Simple, Profound Mindfulness Practice to Magnify Your Capacity for Joy
How to see the universe in a small orange orb.
Maria Mitchell’s Telescope and the Kickstarting of Popular Astronomy: The Heartening Story of the World’s First Crowdfunding Campaign for Science
“Patient thought, patient labor, and firmness of purpose are almost omnipotent.”
Gertrude Stein on Writing and Belonging
“Everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves to tell what is inside themselves.”
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