To Come To Ground Is To Find A Home
To Come To Ground Is To Find A Home Ground, is what lies beneath our feet. It is the place where we already stand; a state of recognition, the place or circumstances to which we belong whether we wish...
View ArticleShakespeare in Shackles: The Transformative Power of Literature
Shakespeare in Shackles: The Transformative Power of Literature: Laura Bates at TEDxUCLA Laura Bates has a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Comparative Literature, with a focus on Shakespeare...
View Article“Your Life Is Not A Self Improvement Project, Mother Fucker!”
“Your Life Is Not A Self Improvement Project, Mother Fucker!” Are the words I’ll never forget. Are the words tattooed in my skull. “My life is not a self improvement project…My life is not a self...
View ArticleIt’s Dark Because You Are Trying Too Hard
It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope...
View ArticleIn The Noisy Confusion Of Life, Keep Peace In Your Soul
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and...
View ArticleIn The Noisy Confusion Of Life, Keep Peace In Your Soul
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and...
View ArticleIt’s Dark because You’re Trying To Hard
It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope...
View Article23 Emotions People Feel, But Can’t Explain
Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own. Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and...
View ArticleWe Are Killing The Creative Class
Our politicians hate culture; our media have given up serious reporting; our tech firms have stolen our content; our citizens are in hock to celebrity; our creators cannot make ends meet. To read...
View ArticleYou Do Not Have To Be Good, a Poem By Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about...
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