AvatarjohndavidikeFaster Than Light: Marilyn Nelson Reads Her Exquisite Poem About the Purpose of Life and How Our Impermanence Both Frustrates and Fuels Our Creative Driveverified_publisherbrainpickings.org - By Maria Popova“It’s so much more a thing of pliancy, persuasion,” the astronomer and poet Rebecca Elson wrote in her spare, lovely poem celebrating the genius of …
AvatarjohndavidikeKeats on the Measure of Compassionverified_publisherbrainpickings.org - By Maria Popova“Have compassion for everyone you meet,” Lucinda Williams sings in the gorgeous song based on her father’s poem of the same title, “You do not know / …
AvatarjohndavidikePoet and Philosopher David Whyte on Love and Resisting the Tyranny of Relationship Labelsverified_publisherbrainpickings.org - Maria Popova“We name mostly in order to control but what is worth loving does not want to be held within the bounds of too narrow a calling. In many ways love …
AvatarjohndavidikeFavorite Books of 2018verified_publisherbrainpickings.org - Maria PopovaThe anatomy of feeling, the science of psychedelics, Ursula K. Le Guin’s final poetry collection, arresting essays by Zadie Smith, Rebecca Solnit, …
AvatarjohndavidikeThe Best of Brain Pickings 2018verified_publisherbrainpickings.org - Maria PopovaThe splendors of the unknown, the uncertain, and the unclassifiable, truth and beauty at the intersection of poetry and science, the timeless tangles …
AvatarjohndavidikeNeil Gaiman Reads Ursula K. Le Guin’s Ode to Timelessness to His 100-Year-Old Cousinverified_publisherbrainpickings.org - Maria Popova“In the vast abyss before time, self is not, and soul commingles with mist, and rock, and light.”“Consciousness is tied to corporeality and …
