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Some final insights from the poet, novelist and teacher Ocean Vuong:
Mouths
The German philosopher, cultural critic, and essayist, Walter Benjamin, said that the novel is actually a break from storytelling.
Change
When my father was born in Minden, Nebraska in 1923 …
Noticing, part 3
Learning to see the same things other people see – but differently – requires space.
Noticing, part 2
Once a person is inspired by the artists and the poets …
Witnesses
When we encounter the universe that is another person, we have a menu of choices of how to respond. Rabbi Ariel Burger observes two challenges with otherness, in the sense that it can be used either as a weapon or a barrier: “we fall into the trap of not listening, [or] we are overfamiliar and […]
The ninth symphony
n the last decade of his life, completely deaf, Ludwig van Beethoven created his Ninth Symphony.
The fourth quarter
I’m learning about marketing for my new coaching practice.
“I have climbed highest mountains”
The Irish rock band, U2, spoke to it for a generation or two of pop music lovers …
Expectations
The human brain is a prediction machine.