Illuminating the pitfalls of the mind in felt and gingerbread. …
A pleasingly disorienting foray into the fundamental perplexity of life. …
Shamans, neurochemistry, and the metabolic byproducts of wonder. …
“…if the Great Mother rushed open the moon like a gift and you were there to feel your shadow finally unhooked from your wrist…” …
Sound, color, and wonderment where the body meets the soul. …
“Out of the cradle onto the dry land… here it is standing… atoms with consciousness… matter with curiosity… I… a universe of atoms… an atom in the universe.” …
“If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.” …
“Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you. Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.” …
A 90-second revelation in the heart, from humanity at its most purehearted. …
A song of praise for life and “the smallest possible once before once.” …
“For this we go out dark nights, searching… for signs of unseen things… Let there be swarms of them, enough for immortality, always a star where we can warm ourselves.” …
“Mingle the starlight with your lives, and you won’t be fretted by trifles.” …
“…so brutal and alive it seemed to comprehend us back.” …
How flowers gave rise to life on Earth and made possible the human consciousness that came to see a world “thronged only with Music.” …
The gasp beyond fact, contouring the central question of what it is like to be you. …
How the gaps in gravity contour the next frontiers in the quest to understand the fundaments of what we are. …
A collaborative praise song for “indifference banished by love.” …
Why our instinctive efforts to salve another’s sadness tend to only deepen their helpless anguish and broaden the abyss between us and them — and what to do instead. …
A touching elegy for what lives on the other side of lifelong heartbreak. …
“For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Remember?” …
“Every story is a story of water.” …
An antidote to isolation by way of tiny marine creatures and a broken Romantic heart. …
How the warm rays of hope and healing enter the dark inner chamber of leaden loneliness through the unexpected cracks of kindness. …
Simple, tenderly expressive line drawings unspool a complex, inexpressible universe of feeling. …
A lyrical journey into the history of our species as the sensemaking animal who hungers for knowledge and advances by love. …