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How to Be Human: Kahlil Gibran’s Recipe for Our Spiritual Perfection as a Species

We walk this earth as bewildered animals trying to recover the divinity within — descendants of the great apes who invented gods to mirror back to us the best in ourselves and bridle the worst, but we are still and always have been our own only shepherds.

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Thanks: W.S. Merwin’s Ode to the Defiant Courage of Gratitude in a Broken World

It is not easy, in these lives haunted by loneliness and loss, menaced by war and heartbreak, witness to genocides and commonplace cruelties, to live in gratitude. And yet it may be the only thing that saves us from mere su...

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Love Against Probability

You wouldn’t have bet on it, this battered rock orbiting a star from the discount bin of the universe, you wouldn’t have bet that it would bloom mitochondria and music, that it would mushroom mountains and minds, and the h...

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A Lamentation for Linnaeus: In Praise of Confusion and Rewilding Wonder

Long ago, we traded the trees for tools, trying to bend the world to our will. We rose to our feet, ambling under the weight of an oversized brain that grew the opposable thumb we call thinking and made with it more tools — language to name w...

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If You Forget Me: Pablo Neruda’s Staggering (Un)breakup Poem

Love is a fire that takes two to keep burning, but one to extinguish — if the hearth of either heart is too damp with doubt, both wake up one day to find their hands cupping ashes. And yet when two people have loved each other and parted, the fire is forever e...

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