How Not to Lose Your Book Advance —Shauna Grimes
When Breath Becomes Air: A Young Neurosurgeon Examines the Meaning of Life as He Faces His Death | Brain Pickings
The Winter of Discontent encroaches within…
The winter of discontent encroaches within.
The gods have willed two mortals a morsel of joy –
Extracted from their feeble endeavours to assuage.
They shall not hurl wrath at the other, mimicking harmony will suffice.
Souls attired in spirituality, befitting tragedy, and residing to forthcoming demise – though they shall take shelter in the wisdom that to err is human.
You’re subject to sorrow, fear, jealousy, anger and inconsistency…
Why Love Hurts: The Sociology of How Our Institutions Rather Than Our Personal Psychological Failings Shape the Romantic Agony of Modern Life | Brain Pickings
Kara Walker’s Hyundai Commission is at Tate Modern, London, 2 October to 5 April. {lgt41: Hoping not to miss out on this.}
An Illustrated Ode to Attentiveness and the Art of Listening as a Wellspring of Self-Understanding, Empathy for Others, and Reverence for the Loveliness of Life | Brain Pickings
Animals are wiser than humans
Often when we speak, our ideas fly out half formed, in scattered confessions and pronouncements, in tattered repartee…
