Anne Porter's Music was the selection the other day at The Writer's Almanac [http://writersalmanac.org/episodes/20150123/]. > When I was a child I once sat sobbing on the floor Beside my mother’s piano As she played and sang For there was in her…
http://explore.noodle.com/post/108653613778/adult-is-nothing-more-than-an-empty-form-what http://explore.noodle.com/post/108645395668/this-stopped-my-breath-mary-oliver-on-what…
http://oupacademic.tumblr.com/post/108248609539reminded me of this from Seneca's On the Shortness of Life [http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/05/resolutions/]. > It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough,…
http://explore.noodle.com/post/108011573018/andre-gides-rules-of-conduct-a-fine-addition-to> The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it -- every bit of energy and ambition and natural…
No kidding. These two posts appeared next to each other in my Tumblr feed. http://think-progress.tumblr.com/post/107955817561/new-analysis-shows-west-virginias-chemical-spill http://thefeature.net/post/107952029941/lets-get-drinks…
I was struck by neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki's story on the Moth Radio Hour today, Saying I Love You [http://themoth.org/posts/stories/saying-i-love-you]. A key moment in her story is remembering her father tell her "All we really have is our memories." The beauty and…
> “You don’t need to know a thing about quantum entanglement, wherein one atom can affect another even though they are separated by tremendous distance, to have some sense that our lives are always larger than the physical limitations within which they occur. We exist apart from our existences,…
New Scientist [https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/545019083255988224] reports a remarkable use of mind control. I've seen [http://mikeschultz.tumblr.com/post/23180116791/the-pbs-news-hour-reports-on-technology-that-lets] and read about [http://mikeschultz.tumblr.com/post/30668423162/atavist-in-the-electric-mind-jessica-benko] something like this before. Remarkable as it is, I had to chuckle when I…