So slight a thing? will replace it. The seams of these plates are intricate, like fingers interlaced, like the meander of arctic rivers across tundra. Privacy policy. “Books feed and cure and chortle and collide.” Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks, who died 20 years ago today, with her forgotten vintage poem about the power of reading brainpickings.org For nearly fifteen years, it has remained free and ad-free and alive thanks to patronage from readers.      the tip of a brush. Decades before Simone de Beauvoir contemplated how chance and choice converge to make us who we are from the fortunate platform of old age, the eighteen-year-old Sylvia Plath — who never reached that fortunate platform, her life felled by the same conspiracy of chance and choice — contemplated these indelible forces in the guise of free will, writing in her journal that “there is such a narrow crack of it for man to move in, crushed as he is from birth by environment, heredity, time and event and local convention.”. Sometimes, life asks this question not as a thought experiment but as a gauntlet hurled with the raw brutality of living. as we say. That selfsame year, the young Viennese neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl (March 26, 1905–September 2, 1997) was taken to Auschwitz along with more than a million human beings robbed of the basic right to answer this question for themselves, instead deemed unworthy of living. Denied and derided for decades by some of the most titanic minds of the century, black holes began as a mathematical reckoning — tentative, treacherous, transcendent. In an entry from July 7, 1986, Haring writes: Children know something that most people have forgotten. 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. Working as a historian of science revealed to me how we have always unconsciously and inevitably viewed the natural world as a mirror of ourselves, reflecting our own world-view and our own needs, thoughts and hopes. The skull quadruples in size in the first few years, and if the bones knit together too soon, they restrict the growth of the brain; and if they don’t knit at all the brain remains unprotected. It has remained free and ad-free and alive thanks to patronage from readers. Walls came unseamed and reseamed before disbelieving eyes that had not yet computed, for it was beyond the computational power of everyday consciousness, what was taking place. 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. 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. The night falls. With an eye to how poetry uniquely anneals us by bringing us into intimate contact with those parts of ourselves we least understand and therefore most fear, Lorde adds: As we learn to bear the intimacy of scrutiny and to flourish within it, as we learn to use the products of that scrutiny for power within our living, those fears which rule our lives and form our silences begin to lose their control over us. Would you perceive my love to be, therefore,                            but in any case Books Missed Connections Maria Popova, Brain Pickings, and whether the internet has changed the way we think. — But one spring day in 1906, a tall American man with a walrus mustache dared to challenge our master. The dazzling scientific story — the story of why the very notion of fish as a category of creature is entirely invented, uncorroborated by nature — becomes a lens for questioning the broader binaries we have accepted as givens, as fundaments of nature rather than the human artifacts that they are. Alice, a little bird Your support makes all the difference. More than half a century after W. I. A black hole can masquerade as an object, but it is really a place, a place in space and time. What emerges is a lyrical and authoritative story of strangeness as a portal to truth, tracing how black holes went from “the unwanted product of the plasticity of space and time, grotesque and extreme deformations, grim instabilities” to “a laboratory for the exploration of the farthest reaches of the mind,” things that are no-things and in their non-thingness “undermine notions of reality, but ameliorate the pain with a mind-searing vision of nature.”. You can also become a spontaneous supporter with a one-time donation in any amount: Partial to Bitcoin? 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 … “All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured,” says Too-ticky, trying to comfort the lost and frightened Moomintroll under the otherworldly light of the aurora borealis. Like? by Jane Hirshfield. Like Alice disguised her memoir of their love as a cookbook, Gertrude disguised hers as an “autobiography” of the beloved under the lover’s byline. Better: a black hole is a spacetime. Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - A glance over the shoulder of time to reveal the patterns, themes, and ideas that steady us and shelter us in the tempest of life. 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 … Brain Pickings was born on October 23, 2006, as a short email to seven friends.. You can also become a spontaneous supporter with a one-time donation in any amount: Partial to Bitcoin? 50,394 talking about this. 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. First noisily, But while his strange and cautionary story backbones the book, it is ribbed with larger ideas: questions about the vain and touchingly human impulse to manufacture order out of elemental chaos, about the colossal blind spots that plague even the greatest visionaries, about the limiting yet necessary artifice of categories by which we attempt to navigate a world of continua and indivisibilia, about our pursuit of timeless truth against the backdrop of our own inevitable and heartbreaking temporality. 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. To understand that your way of looking at the world is not the only one. The School of Life: An Emotional Education (public library) is the book companion, a decade in the making, to Alain de Botton’s wonderful global academy for self-refinement, a project born just a few years after Brain Pickings and tremendously kindred in spirit. Oct 24, 2020 - Explore Nadya Kravchenko's board "Brain Pickings", followed by 114 people on Pinterest. and the kitchen twists dark on its spine quickened by drought Sparer than Dickinson, bolder than Whitman, and absolutely singular, Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936–February 13, 2010) has been a pillar for generations of readers and a progenitor to generations of writers. Your support makes all the difference. If this labor has enlarged and enriched your own life this year, please consider aiding its sustenance with a one-time or loyal donation. The city’s electric grid was snapped and uprooted — in the below-freezing cold, in the descending dusk, all power went out. See more at the link. A scatter of feathers, Since 2006, I have been spending hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars each month to keep Brain Pickings going. Cummings, another artist who so passionately believed that “it takes courage to grow up and become who you really are” — Burgess was impelled to invite young people into Keith Haring’s singular art and the large heart from which it sprang. Lorde, who resolved to live her life as a burst of light as she faced her death, and so lived it, writes: The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. from our twilight world, I picture the two of them at the turntable, sipping spiced wine in rapt, bobbing deliberation over which of the year’s hits to put on next — the year when rock and roll had just been coined, the year of Nat King Cole’s “If I May,” Elvis’s “Baby Let’s Play House,” and Doris Day’s “Love Me or Leave Me.” I picture them glancing at each other with the thrill of that peculiar furtive curiosity edged with longing, having not a glimmering sense — for we only ever recognize the most life-altering moments in hindsight — that they were in the presence of great love, a love that would last a lifetime. Zoho Books is an easy-to-use, online accounting software designed for small businesses to handle their funds and stay on prime of their money circulate. How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton (public library), curated by poet Aracelis Girmay and funded by readers via Kickstarter, collects two hundred of Clifton’s most powerful poems, from hymnal classics like “won’t you celebrate with me” to several newly discovered poems never previously published. Another artist — the Seattle-born Finnish engraver, printmaker, and graphic arts pioneer Tuulikki “Tooti” Pietilä — was impelled to do the same. Black holes are a place in space and they barricade their secrets. thinking of everything but kinship. https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/12/19/favorite-books-2020/ She had written it at an astonishing pace the previous autumn. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”, stirring letter to the daughter she never had, “to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine.”. 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. Favorite Books of 2020 Audre Lorde, Keith Haring, Bruce Lee, chance, love, black holes, constraint as a catalyst of creativity, and a whisper of Whitman. THE FATE OF FAUSTO. “Some dreams aren’t dreams at all, just another angle of physical reality,” Patti Smith wrote in Year of the Monkey, one of my favorite books of 2019 — her exquisite dreamlike book-length prose poem about mending the broken realities of life, a meditation drawn from dreams that are “much more than dreams, as if originating from the dawn of mind.”, As I leaf enchanted through The Unwinding (public library) by the English artist and writer Jackie Morris, this quiet masterpiece dawns on me as the pictorial counterpart to Smith’s — a small, miraculous book that belongs, and beckons you to find your own belonging, in the “Library of Lost Dreams and Half-Imagined Things.”, Its consummately painted pages sing echoes of Virginia Woolf — “Life is a dream. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage Sydney Padua (Goodreads Author) Twitter: @explorer. Gertrude wrote this book of 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. New clues that he hoped would reveal more about nature’s hidden blueprint. “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. hardly present, almost nothing? In my many years of dwelling in the lives and loves and letters of beloved artists, scientists, and writers, I have encountered none more splendid than The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Illustrated (public library) by Maira Kalman — an artist who uses her paintbrush the way Stein used her pen, as the instrument of an imagination tilted pleasantly askance from the plane of common thought. Here's an example. Too many posts? of that rich current of music, 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. The red squirrels’ eighty-foot playground. with a mustache. Twitter: @explorer. 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 … Nothing? Gertrude Stein published The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in 1933, when she was fifty-nine and Alice fifty-six. Perhaps it all comes from our singular awareness that we are anything but timeless, that our lives are anything but forever. And so Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring (public library) was born — a splendid addition to the most inspiring picture-book biographies of cultural heroes. Something else, in the scale of quickening things, ‘Tis waking that kills us. “Mingle the starlight with your lives and you won’t be fretted by trifles,” Maria Mitchell (August 1, 1818–June 28, 1889) ... LAYLA’S HAPPINESS. It never has done. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.” — and whisper an invitation to unwind the tensions of waking life, to follow a mysterious woman and great white all-knowing bear — two creatures bound in absolute trust and absolute love — as they hunt for wild dreams, “dreams that hold the scent of deep green moss, lichen, the place where the roots of a tree enter the earth, old stone, the dust of a moth’s wings.”. And here it is (happily) 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. art pickings. to illustrate how it was. She is most widely known for her blog, Brain Pickings, an online publication that she has fought to maintain advertisement-free, which features her writing on books, and ideas from the arts, philosophy, … The bark   cambium   pine-sap   cluster of needles. “To decide whether life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question of philosophy,” Albert Camus wrote in his classic 119-page essay The Myth of Sisyphus in 1942. Her collection Ledger (public library) has been nothing less than a lifeline this year. Enjoy! Having previously composed Enormous Smallness, one of my favorite books of 2015 — the wondrous picture-book biography of E.E. December 26, 2020 What science does is what I would like more literature to do too: show us that we are living in an exquisitely complicated world that is not all about us. For more from the book, see Lorde on the courage to feel as an antidote to fear. To think what it might mean to love those that are not like you. Here are 20 books, from poetry to science, that helped me survive this discomposing year – I hope they help you, too. My name is Maria Popova and this is my one-woman labor of love. What is the most important fact of the universe? My two green eyes High-quality prints of public domain works and original contemporary art from the Brain Pickings editorial archive. 20 Favorite Books of 2020 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. It will decay your most precious memories, topple your favorite cities, wreck any sanctuary you can ever build. Black holes are so magnetic largely because they defy our animal intuitions about reality, about the everythingness of everything. 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. However gloomy a day I was having, however sunken my child-heart, these figures would transport me to a buoyant world of sunlit possibility. It’s about discerning the hidden, the uniquely human. They shared the jubilant duty. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it realized. 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. “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. Today we’re taking inspiration in Henry David Thoreau’s words on libraries, via Brain Pickings. 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.”. We meet each month in Raleigh or Durham to discuss a book or other writing by an … How did life emerge? “For those of us who grew up before the internet became ubiquitous, a bright fragment from the outer world can feel like an important discovery — and a call,” Burgess writes in the author’s note to what became his serenade to the artist who opened minds and world of possibility for so many. They would remain together for the next half century, until death did them part. Go here. which fills heart, Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them. Reading Zadie Smith is always a rapture, but it has been especially rapturous to press the mind’s ear to her Intimations (public library) this year — a slender collection of six symphonic essays spanning love, death, justice, creativity, identity — everything worth thinking about and writing about, everything we live with and live for. Literary Productivity, Visualized, 7 Life-Learnings from 7 Years of Brain Pickings, Illustrated, Anaïs Nin on Love, Hand-Lettered by Debbie Millman, Anaïs Nin on Real Love, Illustrated by Debbie Millman, Susan Sontag on Love: Illustrated Diary Excerpts, Susan Sontag on Art: Illustrated Diary Excerpts, Albert Camus on Happiness and Love, Illustrated by Wendy MacNaughton, The Silent Music of the Mind: Remembering Oliver Sacks, the world’s first color encyclopedia of fishes, championed the courage to speak up against injustice, the courage to feel as an antidote to fear, disguised her memoir of their love as a cookbook, works of philosophy disguised as children’s books, the same spark that galvanized Emily Dickinson’s poetry, “I long to read more in the book of you.”, how chance and choice converge to make us who we are, the psychology of confidence through the lens of con artists, the psychology of creativity through the lens of Sherlock Holmes, death and what it means to be an artist of life, “a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals,”, the most inspiring picture-book biographies of cultural heroes, spend our lives trying to discern where we end and the rest of the world begins. “We forget that each one of us in his personal life repeats that miracle.”. body, Five years after H Is for Hawk, which was among my favorite books of its year and remains among my favorite books of all years, Helen Macdonald returns with Vesper Flights (public library) — a cabinet of curiosities containing forty-one essays of kaleidoscopic subject range, from mushrooms to bird migration to Mars, focused by Macdonald’s singular sensibility of reverencing the natural world on its own terms and at the same time drawing from it illuminations of human nature and the human world — an essay about fungi and foraging exposing how the categories we superimpose on a complex world in order to comprehend it become blinders of understanding; an essay about the murmurations of starlings parlaying into a moving micro-memoir of Macdonald’s encounter with a young Syrian refugee; an essay about solar eclipses contouring questions of the self as a function of time and place rather than an inherent totality of being, casting a sidewise gleam of insight into the puzzling psychology of denial by which our species remains unwilling to course-correct its ecologically catastrophic course. You can beam some bit-love my way: 197usDS6AsL9wDKxtGM6xaWjmR5ejgqem7. His own life was spared by the tightly braided lifeline of chance, choice, and character. 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 … Suddenly, reality was broken and reality was beautiful. Brain Pickings. What is consciousness? Buildings rippled “up and down in sections, just like a caterpillar,” in one observer’s recollection, before ripping apart and crumbling completely like the brittle simulacra of safety that buildings are. I choose to think that my subject is love, and most specifically love for the glittering world of non-human life around us. The volumes of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, which lie so near on the shelf, are rarely opened, are effectually forgotten and not implied by our literature and newspapers. 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