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Gaston Bachelard on the Meditative Magic of Housework and How It Increases the Human Dignity of Everyday Objects
“Consciousness rejuvenates everything, giving a quality of beginning to the most everyday actions.”
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A New Theory of Distraction
Still, for all our expertise, distraction retains an aura of mystery. It’s hard to define: it can be internal or external, habitual or surprising.
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Sleeping upon a mountain: A poetic and exceptional account of the explorations and essence of the Himalayas
Mukul Mangalik reviews ‘Becoming a Mountain: Himalayan Journeys in Search of the Sacred and the Sublime’ by Stephen Alter.
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Desert Solitaire: An Uncommonly Beautiful Love Letter to Solitude and the Spiritual Rewards of Getting Lost
“Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.”
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Why I love the nothingness inside a float tank
Just when you crave one more sensual hit, the void of the float tank stops time, strips ego and unleashes the mind. By M. M. Owen.
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A Wilderness of Waiting
In the eighth month of my nine-month human pregnancy, I go on a binge-Googling of animal gestation periods. Frilled sharks, I discover, gestate for 42 months. Elephants take 22 months. Sperm whales: 16. Walruses: 15. Rhinos: 14. Horses: 11. I am seeking solidarity and comparative comfort in the realm of beasts, seeking to place my experience on a spectrum of waiting... By Sarah Menkedick.
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Learning About Humanity on Public Transportation
I just saw the most talented subway performer I’ve ever seen. She wasn’t doing anything special—just singing along to karaoke tracks playing modern pop songs and Motown classics. But her voice was incredible. Jaded New Yorkers removed their earphones to listen. Upon completion of each song, the people inhabiting the platforms on both sides broke into applause. That doesn’t happen... By Chris Gethard. (June)
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The Great Surrender
On learning from the brute force of nature. By Amanda Fortini.
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A bird ballet
A mesmering murmuration of starlings. By Neels Castillon.
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At Home in the Liminal World
Living in transition, between cultures, we are discovering who we are. By Pamela Weintraub.
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Fashioning Normal
“If schizophrenia is the domain of the slovenly, I stand outside its borders.” By Esmé Weijun Wang,
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Sky readers
For most of human history, the stars told us where we were in space and time. Have we forgotten how to look up? By Gene Tracy.
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The art of tour guiding
When you’re driving a bus full of tourists through the Australian outback, a packet of chewing gum may be your only hope. By Robert Skinner.
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Living with My Mother’s Mental Illness
On coming to terms with a mother’s unspoken mental illness. By Fariha Roisin.
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The Polaroids of the Cowboy Poet
He captured a crumbling city and almost went down with it. Then one man saw his photos. By Dan Zak.
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The Break-off Effect
The Virgin Galactic crash made the mechanical risks of space tourism clearer, but the psychological effects of space travel largely remain unknown. By Sydney Brownstone. (Nov. 5, ’14)
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Have I got nudes for you: Emer O’Toole on the art of being naked
After her underarm hair caused a stir on national TV, the writer was asked to pose for a nude painting. The experience led her to wonder why we’re still so shy about the naked human form.
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My Life in Houses by Margaret Forster, review: ‘an ingenious structure’
Looking back at her homes, the late Margaret Forster found that walls can have hearts as well as ears. By Juliet Nicolson.
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Welcome to the land that no country wants
In 2014, an American dad claimed a tiny parcel of African land to make his daughter a princess. But Jack Shenker had got there first – and learned that states and borders are volatile and delicate things.
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Sin Will Find You Out
Megan Galbraith retraces the footsteps of her birth mother, who gave her up for adoption at nineteen years old in 1966 in New York City.
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