[ad_1] April 9, 2021– “Before you know what goodness really is, you must lose things, feel that the future dissolves in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.” Thus begins the poem Goodness by Naomi Shihab Nye, movingly animated by Ana Pérez López for the On Being Project. The poem, first published in 1980…

[ad_1] April 8, 2021– “Birds have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember, and hummingbirds have held a special place in my heart for the simple reason that, from the beginning, they became something personal to me. On a certain level You could say that I became a writer…

[ad_1] April 7, 2021– “While we take for granted that time has a certain direction, physicists do not: most natural laws are reversible in time, which means that they would work just as well if time was defined as running backwards. So , Why does time always advance? And will it always do so? “(17…

[ad_1] April 6, 2021– Marina Keegan’s posthumous writings are moving, thoughtful and funny. Their parents, with the help of their college professor, brought them together to honor Keegan’s loving and compassionate spirit after his tragic death. In doing so, they transformed their anger, sadness and pain into a force of positivity and forgiveness that will…

[ad_1] April 5, 2021– This meditative film takes us on a slowdown journey so that we can understand the rhythms and circles of life, to connect more fully with the great circle, “the slow breathing of the earth.” It reminds us to slow down the pace of our lives, even for a few minutes at…

[ad_1] April 4, 2021– “That in love and in life, freedom from fear, like all species of freedom, is only possible in the present moment, has long been a central teaching of the oldest Eastern spiritual and philosophical traditions. It is one of the most elementary truths of existence, and one of the most difficult…

[ad_1] April 3, 2021– “Interrelation is one of the powers of Brian Swimme’s universe that I have been contemplating. I could have accompanied this particular exploration with any image I have. Every flower, every leaf, every tree trunk, every mushroom is only here for a network of relationships. With air, water, fungi, microbes, insects. With…

[ad_1] April 2, 2021– Ra Avis’ searing poetry was born out of her experiences in incarceration and her life as a returning citizen. She is an award-winning blogger and author who describes herself as “a recluse of yesteryear, a grudging optimistic widow, and a generational storyteller.” She shares two of her powerful poems here. (320…

[ad_1] April 1, 2021– “My best friend went to art school and I was very attracted to that path. But I decided not to follow it, because I wanted to find the discipline that encompasses everything. I would not have used those words then, but that was really it. I wanted to find that. that…

[ad_1] March 31, 2021– “Your phone rings in the middle of the night. When you reach blindly to answer, are you afraid that someone you love has had an accident? Has he died suddenly? For a while, at the beginning of my marriage to Jihong, those calls to He often woke us up. The phone…