Need to cancel a recurring donation? LATEST. Too-ticky came aglow in Jansson’s artistic imagination from the same spark that galvanized Emily Dickinson’s poetry — her adoration of the woman who was already becoming the love of her life, the woman to whom she was already writing, “I long to read more in the book of you.”. Unfortunately, she does so via Twitter, so you can get this content for free on the web just as easily. “Do you need a prod? By Maria Popova. I knew nothing about the bittersweet beauty of his courageous life, nothing about the tenacious activism behind his art, nothing about the enormous uninterrupted chain of human figures bonded in kinship, which he had painted on the remnants of the very wall whose collapse had placed this miniature monument to joy on my desk. Oct 24, 2020 - Explore Nadya Kravchenko's board "Brain Pickings", followed by 114 people on Pinterest. If you're a fan of Brain Pickings (http://www.brainpickings.org/) — or you just enjoy reading books about creativity, psychology, spirituality, design, and art — this is the book club for you. High-quality prints of public domain works and original contemporary art from the Brain Pickings editorial archive. At 5:36PM, as the afternoon sun was slipping lazily toward the horizon — that quiet daily assurance that the Earth moves intact on its steady axis along its unfaltering orbital path — street lights began swaying, then flying. Brain Pickings "The day ends. Two generations later, Maria Konnikova entered this eternal conundrum via an improbable path half chosen and half chanced into, emerging with insights into the paradoxes of chance and control, which neither strand alone could have afforded. The master that rules us all. Twitter: @explorer. 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On its pages, he realized that the special native sympathy between children and Haring’s art is not an accident of his line and color but at the very center of his spirit. Burgess’s tender words, harmonized by muralist and illustrator Josh Cochran’s ebullient art, follow the young Keith from his childhood in small-town Pennsylvania, drawing at the kitchen table with his dad and dipping his little sister’s palms in paint to make her a mobile of handprints, to his improbable path to New York City. Think of the selection not as a hierarchy but as a bookshelf, organized by an internal logic that need not make sense to anyone outside the home and the mind in which the bookshelf is suspended. Here are 20 mighty axes of 2020: Here are 20 mighty axes of 2020: Audre Lorde, Keith Haring, Bruce Lee, chance, love, black holes, constraint as a catalyst of creativity, and a whisper of Whitman. Brain Pickings has a free Sunday digest of the week's most interesting and inspiring articles across art, science, philosophy, creativity, children's books, and other strands of … senescence      beetles      canker mind? See more ideas about books, philosophy books, books to read. Books. “A leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars,” the young Whitman sang in one of the finest poems from Song of Myself — the aria of a self that seemed to him then, as it always seems to the young, infinite and invincible. Aug. Urban Iran: A Rare Look at Iran’s Street Art Scene. CREATIVITY:: DESIGN:: SCIENCE:: HISTORY:: PSYCHOLOGY:: ART. Before I was a writer I was a historian of science, which was an eye-opening occupation. and just for a minute      the tip of a brush. Here's an example. For a taste of the book, all the author’s proceeds from which go toward the Equal Justice Initiative and New York’s COVID-19 emergency relief fund, here is Smith on love, habit, and creativity. “Some books are toolkits you take up to fix things, from the most practical to the most mysterious, from your house to your heart, or to make things, from cakes to ships. “Words have more power than any one can guess; it is by words that the world’s great fight, now in these civilized times, is carried on,” Mary Shelley wrote as she championed the courage to speak up against injustice two hundred years ago, amid a world that commended itself for being civilized while barring people like Shelley from access to education, occupation, and myriad other civil dignities on account of their chromosomes, and barring people just a few shades darker than her from just about every human right on account of their melanin. Sigh. “Let me be as urgent as a knife, then, / and remind you of Keats, / so single of purpose and thinking, for a while, / he had a lifetime.”. In a sentiment evocative of the last line in the late, great astronomer and poet Rebecca Elson’s gorgeous poem “Explaining Relativity,” she writes: The limits are the scaffolding enabling creativity. But --- I find a lot of the entries on Brain Pickings and Maria Popova's writing style in particular too precious, too heartfelt, it feels like an overdose of the sublime. strain against each strange other The New Time-Traveling Story For Kids 2020. In an entry from July 7, 1986, Haring writes: Children know something that most people have forgotten. The arborist has determined: I have no staff, no interns, not even an assistant — a thoroughly one-woman labor of love that is also my life and my livelihood. Inside them, books toppled from their shelves to take rapid turns levitating from the floor, flames engulfed school science labs as chemicals crumpled together, and cast-iron pots of moose stew jumped off kitchen stoves. That grainy, transcendent photograph of our “mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam” became the central poetic image of his now-iconic Pale Blue Dot meditation on our cosmic place and destiny, which in turn inspired Maya Angelou’s “A Brave and Startling Truth” — the staggering poem that flew to space aboard the Orion spacecraft, inviting a fractured humanity to reach beyond our divisive ideologies and see ourselves afresh “on this small and drifting planet,” to face our capacities and contradictions, and finally see that “we are the possible, we are the miraculous, the true wonder of this world.”. There is, after all, something eminently uninteresting about a perpetually blue sky. We meet each month in Raleigh or Durham to discuss a book or other writing by an … Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - Audre Lorde, Keith Haring, Bruce Lee, chance, love, black holes, constraint as a catalyst of creativity, and a whisper of Whitman. the species, the star. I picture my grandparents’ well in Bulgaria undulating in the middle of the night as they slept heavily under their Rhodope wool blankets, having celebrated my mother’s second birthday in the hours before Anchorage came unborn. A thing that fills the blood, and For today I will leave you with a great Brain Pickings’ post with a book list on the topic of how to live: 33 Books on How to Live: My Reading List for the Long Now Foundation’s Manual for Civilization. i hold their bodies in obscene embrace A coup de foudre In span and in size, our human lives unfold between the scale of leaves and the scale of stars, amid a miraculous world born by myriad chance events any one of which, if ever so slightly different, could have occasioned a lifeless rocky world, or no world at all — no trees and no songbirds, no Whitman and no Nina Simone, no love poems and no love — just an Earth-sized patch of pure spacetime, cold and austere. Radiating from this lyrical odyssey of science, from this savage passion for understanding, is the subtle and stubborn insistence that the elementary laws are not something separate from us, are not alluring abstractions, are not playthings of the mind, but are the making and unmaking of us sensecrafting creatures — creatures that cohered from particles that cohered into molecules that cohered into minds capable of parsing information, capable of wresting from it conjectures about the elementary laws, capable of writing poems and postulates about the nature of reality and our place in it. Water levels jumped as far away as South Africa. 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Follow Blog via Email . No love? As our collective memory always tends toward amnesia and erasure — especially of periods scarred by civilizational shame — these existential infusions of sanity and lucid buoyancy fell out of print and were soon forgotten. The seams of these plates are intricate, like fingers interlaced, like the meander of arctic rivers across tundra.                            but in any case their lives Privacy policy. thinking of everything but kinship. Brain Pickings is a collection of extraordinary content, delivered wirelessly to your kindle. 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Maria Popova Ping Zhu children's books art illustration Enchanted Lion science biology genetics love nonfiction children's books children's nonfiction history and literature lit science and technology. “Everything else… is child’s play; we must first of all answer the question.”. A bite-sized companion to Brain Pickings by Maria Popova. Twitter: @explorer. In this piece, I discuss what makes a best book and I also use my personal best book as an example. It’s not if, it’s when. a visual way to explore the brain pickings book archive:: otlet's shelf theme :: back to brain pickings. Some by pure chance. Published December 19, 2020 Open enough to grow and closed enough to hold together is what a life must also be. A century after the great nature writer Henry Beston insisted that we need “a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals,” observing how “in a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear,” Macfarlane and Morris bring us the mystery and wisdom of wild things as complementary and consolatory to our tame incompleteness. Driving to the local bookstore with one of her three children was a woman who would emerge as the unlikely hero not only of the community’s survival but of its transformation through tragedy. The shadow that slips / Do you need a little darkness to get you going?” Mary Oliver asked in her stunning love poem to life, composed in the wake of a terrifying diagnosis. A mere eleven months after surviving the unsurvivable, Frankl took up the elemental question at the heart of Camus’s philosophical parable in a set of lectures, which he himself edited into a slim, potent book published in Germany in 1946, just as he was completing Man’s Search for Meaning. Born in Fukushima just as World War II was breaking out, Osada composed this spare, lyrical book upon turning eighty, having lived through unimaginable storms. a visual way to explore the brain pickings book archive:: otlet's shelf theme :: back to brain pickings. Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks, who died 20 years ago today, with her forgotten vintage poem about the power of reading. Your support makes all the difference. You can see past books we've read on our Goodreads page The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage Sydney Padua (Goodreads Author) away from my kissmaking hand and His own life was spared by the tightly braided lifeline of chance, choice, and character. Or as anticipation See more at the link. the bond of live things everywhere. Quotes from beloved books, each thematically matched with a song. Somehow, we went from bacteria to Bach; somehow, we learned to make fire and music and mathematics. A bite-sized companion to Brain Pickings by Maria Popova. Quotes from beloved books, each thematically matched with a song. Here's an example. But the light does return to lift the darkness and restore the world’s color — as in nature, so in the subset of it that is human nature. Your support makes all the difference. One of the most bewildering things about life is how ever-shifting the inner weather systems are, yet how wholly each storm consumes us when it comes, how completely suffering not only darkens the inner firmament but dims the prospective imagination itself, so that we cease being able to imagine the return of the light. like the spaces between the notes of a wren’s song, My name is Maria Popova and this is my one-woman labor of love. art pickings. On March 27, 1964 — Good Friday — thousands of selves in Anchorage, Alaska came unpinned from their most elemental certitudes about reality, about safety, about the thousand small sanities by which we bestill this turning world to make it livable. Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - “The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today… The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.” “How we spend our days,” Annie Dillard memorably wrote in her soul-stretching meditation on the life of presence, “is, of course, how we spend our … Three quarters into the book and half a lifetime into her becoming, Solnit writes: Growing up, we say, as though we were trees, as though altitude was all that there was to be gained, but so much of the process is growing whole as the fragments are gathered, the patterns found.      in your headlights’ rush, The book was inspired by Smith’s first encounter with Marcus Aurelius’s classic Meditations, on which she leaned to steady herself in these staggering times but which failed to make of her a Stoic, driving her, as the world’s gaps and failings drive us restive makers, to make what meets the unmet need — a contemporary counterpart to these ancient private meditations of timeless public resonance. The branch from which the sharp-shinned hawks and their mate-cries. If u like books worth taking a look at for sure. Many of the essays here are exercises in interrogating such human ascriptions and assumptions. We emerge from laws that, as far as we can tell, are timeless, and yet we exist for the briefest moment of time. It wasn’t, of course, Alice’s autobiography, or even her biography — rather, it was the biography of their love, of early-twentieth-century Paris, of the community of visionary artists and writers who orbited the couple and who came to be known as the Lost Generation — a term Gertrude Stein coined — as they found themselves, in every sense of the term, at Alice and Gertrude’s salons. Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus. “Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious,” Whitman wrote as he stood discomposed and delirious before a universe filled with “forms, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts, the ones known, and the ones unknown, the ones on the stars, the stars themselves, some shaped, others unshaped.” And yet the central animating force of our species, the wellspring of our joy and curiosity, the restlessness that gave us Whitman and Wheeler, Keats and Curie, is the very fathoming of this fathomless universe — an impulse itself a marvel in light of our own improbability. Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them. Essential Life-Learnings from 14 Years of Brain Pickings, Singularity: Marie Howe’s Ode to Stephen Hawking, Our Cosmic Belonging, and the Meaning of Home, in a Stunning Animated Short Film, The Cosmic Miracle of Trees: Astronaut Leland Melvin Reads Pablo Neruda’s Love Letter to Earth’s Forests, How Kepler Invented Science Fiction and Defended His Mother in a Witchcraft Trial While Revolutionizing Our Understanding of the Universe, Emily Dickinson’s Electric Love Letters to Susan Gilbert, Rebecca Solnit’s Lovely Letter to Children About How Books Solace, Empower, and Transform Us, Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives, In Praise of the Telescopic Perspective: A Reflection on Living Through Turbulent Times, A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety, The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. My two green eyes December 26, 2020 Article by Decorology Blog. — An inventory of cross-disciplinary interestingness, spanning art, science, design, history, philosophy, and more. At the 1955 Christmas party of Helsinki’s Artists’ Guild, Jansson found herself drawn to the record player, impelled to take over the evening’s music. brain pickings / Concord Free Press / free books. which fills heart, Brain Pickings has a free Sunday digest of the week's most interesting and inspiring articles across art, science, philosophy, creativity, children's books, and other strands of … Long before he moved to Brooklyn in pursuit of his own calling, poet Matthew Burgess had a parallel experience of Haring’s world-expanding art, which he first encountered on the cover of a Christmas record at fourteen, living behind the Golden Curtain of suburban Southern California as a budding artist and young gay man trying to find himself. “The bright suns I see and the dark suns I cannot see are in their place” — an astonishing sentiment by a rare seer who bent his gaze half a century beyond his era’s horizons of knowledge. And here we are now, walking wildernesses of mossy feelings and brambled thoughts beneath an overstory of one hundred trillion synapses, coruscating with the ultimate question: What is all this? Like every year, this annual glance over the shoulder of time is a composite of the essays that most resonated with readers and those I most enjoyed writing, the overlap … ‘Tis waking that kills us. It will decay your most precious memories, topple your favorite cities, wreck any sanctuary you can ever build. The Snail with the Right Heart Maria Popova (author) & Pin Zhu (illustrator) A love story, a science story, a story about the poetry of existence, about time and chance, genetics and gender, life and death, evolution and infinity, about not mistaking difference for defect, about recognizing diversity as nature’s wellspring of resilience and beauty. The difficulty of growing up, the hard-won glory of it, lies in the self-tessellation. the pot is black, But when a paralytic stroke felled him decades later, unpeeling his creaturely limits and his temporality, he leaned on the selfsame reverence of nature as he considered what makes life worth living: After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on — have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear — what remains? Although science is Greene’s raw material in this fathoming — its histories, its theories, its triumphs, its blind spots — he emerges, as one inevitably does in contemplating these colossal questions, a testament to Einstein’s conviction that “every true theorist is a kind of tamed metaphysicist.” Looking back on how he first grew enchanted with what he calls “the romance of mathematics” and its seductive promise to unveil the timeless laws of nature, he writes: Creativity constrained by logic and a set of axioms dictates how ideas can be manipulated and combined to reveal unshakable truths. I have no staff, no interns, not even an assistant — a thoroughly one-woman labor of love that is also my life and my livelihood. The poetry of Jane Hirshfield — a poet of optimism and of lucidity, a champion of science and an ordained Buddhist, a poet who could write “So few grains of happiness / measured against all the dark / and still the scales balance,” a poet who can balance and steady us against those times when we “go to sleep in one world and wake in another” — has salved and saved my life again and again across many seasons and epochs of being. Nature remains; to bring out from their torpid recesses, the affinities of a man or woman with the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons — the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night. It is tempting, for it is flattering, to think of ourselves as trees — as firmly rooted and resolutely upward bound; as creatures destined, in Mary Oliver’s lovely words, “to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine.” But even if the highest compliment a great poet can pay a great woman is to celebrate her as a human tree, we are not trees — we don’t branch and root from a single point, we don’t grow linearly; we disbark ourselves at will, at the flash and flutter of a heart, self-grafting every love and loss we live through; our growth-rings are often ungirdled by self-doubt, by regress, by the fits and starts by which we become who and what we are: fragmentary but indivisible. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it realized. If this labor has enlarged and enriched your own life this year, please consider aiding its sustenance with a one-time or loyal donation. Kalman introduces the book with her spare and singular poetics: Alice met Gertrude. with paintings 04. would you hear it as a silence? And yet that point is pinned to a figment — our fundamental creaturely sense of reality is founded upon the illusion of absolute rest. Today we’re taking inspiration in Henry David Thoreau’s words on libraries, via Brain Pickings. It has remained free and ad-free and alive thanks to patronage from readers. It can be love or death, betrayal or belonging, home or hope or exile. “We forget that each one of us in his personal life repeats that miracle.”. would you understand? Van Gogh knew this when he contemplated “the drama of a storm in nature, the drama of sorrow in life” as essential fuel for art and life. A scatter of feathers, We meet each month in Raleigh or Durham to discuss a book or other writing by an author who has been mentioned on Brain Pickings. “Cultural curation” that will, at the very least, introduce you to new ideas and perspectives and, at its very best, help you think more, laugh more, do more. What is consciousness? Statesmen don’t… Only poets.” Lorde understood the power of poetry — the power of words mortised into meaning and tenoned into truth, truth about who we are and who we are capable of being — and she wielded that power to pivot an imperfect world closer to its highest potential.Nowhere does that potency of understanding live with more focused force than in her 1977 manifesto of an essay “Poetry Is Not a Luxury,” which opens The Selected Works of Audre Lorde (public library) — the excellent collection of poetry and prose, edited and with a foreword by the unstoppable Roxane Gay. Brain Pickings. The animating ethos of that uncommon life comes newly alive in Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee (public library) by his daughter, Shannon Lee, titled after his famous metaphor for resilience — a slender, potent book twining her father’s timeless philosophies of living with her own reflections, drawn from her own courageous life of turning unfathomable loss into a path of light and quiet strength. While a spare, poetic story accompanies each pictorial sequence, partway between fairy tale and magical realism, the text is only a contour around one of myriad possible shapes and shadings each watercolor dreamscape invites — each years in the painting, each a consummate Rorschach test for the poetic imagination that confers upon our waking hours the iridescent shimmer that makes life worth living. Subscribe to this free midweek pick-me-up for heart, mind, and spirit below — it is separate from the standard Sunday digest of new pieces: In 2020, I spent thousands of hours and thousands of dollars keeping Brain Pickings going. It appears to be, and to an impressive scholarly extent is, about David Starr Jordan — the founder of Stanford University, a brilliant ichthyologist and a deluded eugenicist. Today, for some, a universe will vanish. Too many posts? Claim yours: Also: Because Brain Pickings is in its fifteenth year and because I write primarily about ideas of a timeless character, I have decided to plunge into my vast archive every Wednesday and choose from the thousands of essays one worth resurfacing and resavoring. To understand that your way of looking at the world is not the only one. This time it's Brian Pickings: The 13 Best Science and Technology Books of 2013, The 13 Best Biographies, Memoirs, and History Books of 2013, The 13 Best Psychology and Philosophy Books … The life-affirming splendor of the spectrum within and without is what Japanese poet and picture-book author Hiroshi Osada and artist Ryoji Arai celebrate in Every Color of Light: A Book about the Sky (public library), translated by David Boyd — a tender serenade to the elements that unspools into a lullaby, inviting ecstatic wakefulness to the fulness of life, inviting a serene surrender to slumber. Having devoted five years of doctoral work, with the creator of the famous Marshmallow Experiment as her advisor, to designing and performing psychology experiments probing how people’s perception of control in situations dictated by pure chance shapes decision-making and outcomes, she was suddenly life-thrust into a much more intimate empiricism. That we think, and how we think, is our only means of survival. After looking back on my Brain-pickings piece, I can see some definite changes I wanted to make. Children possess a fascination with their everyday existence that is very special and would be very helpful to adults if they could learn to understand and respect it. If this labor has enlarged and enriched your own life this year, please consider aiding its sustenance with a one-time or loyal donation. Accept the black hole as a bare event horizon, a curved empty spacetime, a sparse vacuity… A glorious void, an empty venue, an extreme, spare stage, markedly austere but, yes, able to support big drama when the stage is occupied. 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