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readings: essays & articles

reassuring ghosts and haunted houses

fish recorded singing dawn chorus on reefs just like birds

what people around the world dream about

poet and philosopher david whyte on anger, forgiveness, and what maturity really means

oranges are orange, salmon are salmon

how memories persist where bodies and even brains do not

the avant-garde musical legacy of the moomins

the weight of our living: on hope, fire escapes, and visible desperation

disturbed minds and disruptive bodies

what is better ー a happy life or a meaningful one?

after my dad died, i started sending him emails. months later, someone wrote me back

on the igbo art of storytelling

what the caves are trying to tell us

promethean beasts — how animal uses of fire help illuminate human pyrocognition

the art of loving and losing female friends

on memorizing poetry

the ecological imagination of hayao miyazaki

reading in the age of constant distraction

holly warburton illustrates tender moments of love and light

romancing the fig: what one fruit can tell us about love, life and human civilization

mystery and birds: 5 ways to practice poetry

can a plant remember? this one seems to — here's the evidence

why female cannibals frighten and fascinate

when you give a tree an email adress

fear not — horror movies build community and emotional resilience

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Silk Fan, ca. 1850, Europe

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(via 清　　流 | 自然・風景 ＞ 河川の写真 | GANREF)

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victorian mussel shaped vinaigrette in handcrafted silver, engraved 'Lucy'. 1876.

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Art by Matteo Moni

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not horses by Natalie Shapero

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The Silver Rivers, South Iceland (2019) 

Dani Guindo

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>> the_story_of_a_biologist

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A reflective paint mural to activate the I-95 underpass on Columbia Ave. in Philadelphia’s Fishtown neighborhood

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Combs and hairpins for hair, Rene Lalique, late XIX - early XX centuries.