[ad_1] July 17, 2021– “On his 42nd birthday, writer Ross Gay set himself a challenge. Every day for a year, he wrote an essay about something delicious. He wrote about nicknames, fireflies, reckless quotes in the air. And about a hundred of those essays are now assembled in his new book appropriately titled “The Book…

[ad_1] July 16, 2021– “This diary narrates the change of my world, from spring to winter, at home, in nature, in my head. It travels from the west of Northern Ireland in County Fermanagh to the east in County Down. the uprooting of a home, a change in the county and the landscape, and sometimes…

[ad_1] July 15, 2021– “A broad-billed hummingbird hangs for a few seconds, not a meter away. The glittering sapphire necklace blinks for an instant, and then the little bird is shot away, its hoarse cry fading like a lost thought in oaks … I close my eyes and try to feel the impact that the…

[ad_1] July 14, 2021– “We know things in the core of our being that we have not necessarily been taught. And some of this deep knowledge may actually be at odds with what our culture, religion or nation has tried to teach us. This book is about awakening to what we know in the depths…

[ad_1] July 13, 2021– “In our own way they always tell us not to ask for anything. They always tell us in our community, as a practice, that when we have to start asking for something is when we agree that people are irresponsible. Irresponsible in not understanding what we need, irresponsible in not seeing…

[ad_1] July 12, 2021– “I have been thinking more deeply about leaves: what these simple gifts of nature can teach us and how they can help us overcome the challenges we face in life. During the past year, I wrote down thoughts in a leather covered notebook that I keep on my desk. And in…

[ad_1] July 11, 2021– “It was a bright August morning and I had the store to myself. As my wife and I were close, we had passed the place earlier on our way to town. To tell the truth, from the looks of I decided it was best avoided. But this morning, I had decided…

[ad_1] July 10, 2021– Mary Oliver’s poems seem like prayers that anyone can pray. Spacious and simple, expansive and ordinary, they don’t require us to believe in anything in particular. But they do ask us to pay attention to the fleeting and particular space of a moment that we are living, that she has touched…

[ad_1] July 9, 2021– “A new translation of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke has been published in a world where her voice and vision feel as resounding as ever. In ten letters to a young man in 1903, Rilke referred to the Enduring dramas of creating our lives: prophetic reflections on…

[ad_1] July 8, 2021– For those of us who live in urban areas, what does it really mean to return to life in the village? What is the impetus that moves people to reverse the direction of their recent ancestors’ migration to the city? What can you offer to live on earth, grow your own…