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The Black Robin and the Power of Tenacious Tenderness: How a Single Mother Brought an Entire Species Back from the B...

This essay is adapted from Traversal.

“In the great chain of cause and effect,” Alexander von Humboldt wrote as he was


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The More Loving One: The Science of Entropy and the Art of Alternative Endings
“If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.”

This essay and poem are now part of the Universe in Verse book.


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The Loveliness of Letting Go: An Illustrated Ode to Life’s Lasts

The great cruelty of life, and also its great mercy, is that only hindsight ever knows each last — the last time your lover put ...


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How to Be Un-Dead: Notes on Waking Up from the Trance of Near-Living
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”

“When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist,” Henry Miller wrote in his


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The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Outside the Confines of Conventional Friendship and Compulsory Coupledom
“While we weaken friendships by expecting too little of them, we undermine romantic relationships by expecting too much of them.”

We move through the world largely unaware that our emotions are


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