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Annie Dillard on creativity and what it takes to be a writer
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The tender true story of the real-life peaceful bull who inspired the beloved children's book Ferdinand
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This week's oasis of sanities in a single place –why bats shouldn't exist (but, mercifully, do), Whitman on how to own (really own) your own life, what makes a great storyteller, poetry in the age of AI:
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30 years before ChatGPT, Oliver Sacks wrote brilliantly about consciousness, AI, and our search for meaning
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A bird divination for your day, part of the deck of 100 available at and a solo print at
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Every artist’s art is their coping mechanism for being alive. Birds were not just an aesthetic passion for Edward Lear. “A deep black bitter melancholy destroys me,” he wrote in his journal. He painted what he saw in order to keep looking out. All melancholy is a stranglehold of.
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What makes great art – 120 years ago, the Welsh writer and mystic Arthur Machen distilled the single most important element in creative work
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Thoreau on the greatest gift of growing older
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"To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.". Wonderful read from a wonderful mind:
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The Third Thing – poet Donald Hall on the secret to lasting love
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This week's oasis of sanities in a single place – Whitman on how to own (really own) your own life, why bats shouldn't exist, what makes a great storyteller, poetry in the age of AI:
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Desert Solitaire – an uncommonly beautiful love letter to solitude and the spiritual rewards of getting lost
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On Neruda's birthday, his magnificent Nobel Prize acceptance speech
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A #birddivination for your weekend from the peregrine falcon. Part of the set of 100 available at and also a stand-alone print at
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Bruce Springsteen on surviving depression and his strategy for living through the recurrent visitations of the darkness
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"Climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space.". Wisdom from one who lived it:
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From one of the greatest writers and greatest noticers of the 19th century, a wonderful read on the art of noticing and what artists can learn from naturalists
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Why bats shouldn't exist – the limits of knowledge, the pitfalls of prediction, and the triumph of the possible over the probable
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In the bleakest winter of World War I, enormous canvases singing with color began appearing across the French countryside, bandaging the brutality with beauty.
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Emily Dickinson's love poem to reading
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