Woodworker Anoo Kulkarni: Answering the Heart's Call
"For many years, I wondered what it really meant to 'follow one's heart'. I was very curious to know what it felt like. I was certain it would be extraordinary, with an air of mystery. Something lofty...
View ArticleAda Limon: Trust Poetry
"I am most free when I am writing poems. Theres a quote from C.D. Wright that says It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside of us that would be free and declare them so. There is so much...
View ArticleDavid Whyte: Blessings
"David Whyte's "Blessing" poems are interpreted through a visual journey across the Irish landscape in this short film by Emmy-winning filmmaker Andrew Hinton. Musician and composer Owen O...
View ArticleTolu Ilesanmi: Cleaner and Life Artist
"Tolulope Ilesanmi was a cleaner. He left banking in Nigeria and came to Montreal, where he did his MBA and then started a company, Zenith Cleaning. Tolu considered everything about that company a...
View ArticleWatching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Isn't Breaking
"On Earth, just a teaspoon of neutron star would weigh six billion tons. Six billion tons. The equivalent weight of how much railway it would take to get a third of the way to the sun. Its the...
View ArticlePerceptual Intelligence: Gathering Deep Knowledge
"One cannot know a forest by walking it only once. It takes several full cycles of the seasons, and regular explorations during that time, preferably daily, to even begin to know a place. Where are its...
View ArticleTimefulness: A Geologist's Story
"Geologist Marcia Bjornerud's latest book, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World, can easily capture your inner philosopher, scientist, activist, and writer. When I...
View ArticleWendy Sussman: Painting as a Search
"Just gravitate to the thing you can easily do. Then all that baggage of being the great artist just flies away and you're just doing it! That's really the important thing. But you shouldn't feel...
View ArticleAn Immense World
"Made famous by zoologist Jakob von Uexkull in 1909, the term Umwelt refers to the perceptual world experienced by each animal, a highly specific kind of "sensory bubble." When we walk our dog and she...
View ArticleTransforming Apocalypse Fatigue into Action
It is possible to transform "apocalypse fatigue," the defenses that keep us from engaging fully in action on global warming, by sharing stories of those who are making real change happen, bringing the...
View ArticleReflections of a Jungian Analyst
At the end of her training, artist and psychotherapist, Rue Harrison had the good fortune to have Gareth Hill as her supervising consultant. At the conclusion of her work with Hill, she asked Gareth if...
View ArticleHow Do You Know If You Are Actually Humble?
"Despite intellectual humility being the subject of intense scientific study in recent years, there remains debate among scientists on how best to measure it. That debate begins with a basic question:...
View ArticleThe Egg: A Short Story By Andy Weir
"You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried...
View ArticleAanchal Malhotra: Remnants of a Separation
"Aanchal Malhotra is a writer and historian reorienting the way we think and talk about our past, present and future. Inspired by objects her family had carried with them during the 1947 Partition of...
View ArticleGeorge Lakoff on Language and Climate Action
"Why is it so difficult to act on climate change? Despite growing public awareness of the current climate crisis, the topic of climate change continues to thwart political and social systems across the...
View Article14 Smells that Remind You to Breathe
Megan Hippler is an environmental and humanities writer in Queensland, Australia. In this short lyrical piece she lists 14 scents from the natural world, mixing the familiar with the exotic, waking one...
View ArticleBotanical Animation: A Story of Flowers
There are nearly half a million flowering plants growing beautifully and strongly in this world, spreading their roots in the earth, sprouting, blooming, pollinated by birds and insects, living on...
View ArticleFermentation as Metaphor
"In this interview, Sandor Katz discusses his new book, Fermentation as Metaphor. A world-renowned expert in fermented foods, Sandor considers the liberating experience offered through engagement with...
View ArticleLearning to Learn: You, Too, Can Rewire Your Brain
"The studio for what is arguably the world's most successful online course is tucked into a corner of Barb and Phil Oakley's basement, a converted TV room that smells faintly of cat urine. (At the end...
View ArticleJonathan Foust: Body-Centered Inquiry
"Jonathan Foust is a longtime teacher of yoga and meditation who has guided learners at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC for more than 20...
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