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How Patterns Change

How Patterns Change

7 months ago 17

Trauma, Transformation, and the Courage of Uncertainty: Prentis Hemphill on the Key to Breaking Our Patterns

Trauma, Transformation, and the Courage of Uncerta...

7 months ago 22

The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Outside the Confines of Conventional Friendship and Compulsory Coupledom

The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Ou...

7 months ago 28

An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of Candid Connection

An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau ...

7 months ago 18

Finding Sanity in Sprezzatura: The Lost 16th-century Italian Art of Living with Fluency, Serenity, and Openness to Wonder

Finding Sanity in Sprezzatura: The Lost 16th-centu...

7 months ago 24

Bloom: A Touching Animated Short Film about Depression and What It Takes to Recover the Light of Being

Bloom: A Touching Animated Short Film about Depres...

7 months ago 27

How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love

How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the ...

7 months ago 25

The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream

The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life...

7 months ago 22

How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty

How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the...

8 months ago 25

The Eternal Return: Nietzsche’s Brilliant Thought Experiment Illustrating the Key to Existential Contentment

The Eternal Return: Nietzsche’s Brilliant Thought ...

8 months ago 23

What Makes a Soul Mate: Roxane Gay on Loving vs. Being in Love

What Makes a Soul Mate: Roxane Gay on Loving vs. B...

8 months ago 24

How the Bicycle Was Born: Mount Tambora, the Year Without a Summer, and the Stubborn Courage to Reimagine the Possible

How the Bicycle Was Born: Mount Tambora, the Year ...

8 months ago 29

An Irishwoman’s Fierce and Poetic Record of Traversing the World on a Bicycle in the Middle of the Cold War

An Irishwoman’s Fierce and Poetic Record of Traver...

8 months ago 24

Wander: Natascha McElhone Reads Hermann Hesse’s 100-Year-Old Love Letter to the Wisdom of Trees in a Cinematic Walk Through Kew Gardens

Wander: Natascha McElhone Reads Hermann Hesse’s 10...

8 months ago 25

Letting in the Golden Light: Oliver Sacks on How Love Changes What We See

Letting in the Golden Light: Oliver Sacks on How L...

8 months ago 38

Octavia Butler on Change and the Meaning of God

Octavia Butler on Change and the Meaning of God

8 months ago 25

But We Had Music

But We Had Music

8 months ago 25

How to Be a Tree: Notes on the Resilience of Letting Go

How to Be a Tree: Notes on the Resilience of Letti...

8 months ago 22