It is a whole life’s work to accept this elemental fact, and a life’s triumph to accept it not with bitterness but with love ...Kinship by MariaPopova. (Available as a print.). She writes. ... Art by Alessandro Sanna from Crescendo ... newsletter ... .
Here is the mathematical logic of the spirit ...Tree photograph by George Saunders (courtesy of the author) and drawing of a neuron from the human cerebellum by neuroscience founding father Santiago Ramón y Cajal ... We mistake those thoughts for us ... .
“It wouldn’t have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything.” ... It matters not at all whether we are holding our breath for a triumph or bracing for a tragedy ... James writes. ... .
“Self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism, and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair.” ... It is the crucible of our qualia. It is the tightrope between the mind and the world, woven of consciousness ... He writes..
His wife, Darya Popova (born Darya Shmeleva), is a former Russian competitive swimmer ... His net worth is commonly estimated to fall between $4 million and $6 million.Darya Popova’s swimming career and ...
For the second year in a row, the Californian hub has been named the world's most beautiful airport in Prix Versailles' 2026 awards, which celebrates excellence in contemporary design ....
We learn a great deal about ourselves and the gaps in our self-knowledge through love, but we can learn just as much through hate. In both experiences, the ultimate question and the great test of character is what we do with what we learn ... newsletter ... .
Perihelion over Patagonia, January 12, 2026. To know this, to place the firm hand of the mind on this banister of reality, is to steady yourself amid the daily shocks of living ... I feel the centipede in me, cayman, carp, eagle and fox ... donating = loving.
There are times in life when the continent of certainty parts underfoot and, as the ash cloud of the old world rains darkness upon us, we are asked to swim in the rivers of lava that will make the new ... It is the world ... Art from An Almanac of Birds ... .
An avalanche killed a 13-year-old skiing off-piste in the Austrian alpine resort of Bad Gastein on Tuesday, in the country's second avalanche death since Sunday, rescuers said ....
“My foothold is tenon’d and mortis’d in granite and I know the amplitude of time,” wrote Walt Whitman, knowing what stone teaches about trusting time ... It is more than a comfort — it is a consecration ... Rock formation in Patagonia ... .
The light was always there — our star is a hundred million years older than our planet — but it was learning to see it, to harness it, to transform it, that made this rocky planet a living world ... Divination for the First Light ... It is gone ... .
Two centuries ago, a small group of brilliant and troubled young people trembling with the unprocessed traumas of their childhoods laid in their poems and letters and journals the foundational modern mythos of love ... Illustration from An ABZ of Love ... .