One of the most important things to have learned in life is that choosing joy in a world rife with reasons for despair is a countercultural act of ...
I once asked ChatGPT to write a poem about a total solar eclipse in the style of Walt Whitman. It returned a dozen couplets of cliches that touched ...
By Maria Popova At the end of her trailblazing life, having swung open the gate of the possible for women in science with her famous ...
If you want to befriend time — which is how you come to befriend life — turn to stone. Climb a mountain and listen to the conversation between eons ...
I was eight when I first grasped the power of storytelling. One night, my mother presented me with a book titled Telephone Tales, published the year she ...
Mountains are some of our best metaphors for the mind and for the spirit, but they are also living entities, sovereign and staggering. I remember the ...