On living forever
Listening time: 2 minutes. This long and winding quotation enchanted me to the extent that I wrote it out...
Particles of human life
This week, glad to share fine metaphors both written by journalists. Here The Economist pays a suitably eloquent and moving tribute...
The art of living fully
And how! May you be ever inventive in living a full life. I will find some images that merit this quotation...
A blank map
‘You’ll start with a blank map, that doesn’t do more than show roughly what’s water and what isn’t.’
What a...
On the practice of life
Alice Herz-Sommer was a pianist also believed to be the oldest Holocaust survivor, living to 110. She combined an astonishing...
From here to eternity
This feels a perfect metaphor for living in the present and for the long run. Perhaps it is intended to...
Where life meets death
A surprising metaphor for the inexorable link between life and death, with the same sense of something encroaching with age. From...
Reading to live more intensely
Reading allows you to meet people, places, periods and perspectives you might never otherwise encounter, intensifying your experience of life. ...
Life as gift
A strong statement by a man whose life was taken from him in the harshest circumstances, and who lived at...
Podcast review – Molly Peacock’s Paper Garden
Listening time: 12 minutes. This is a biography of an artist written by a poet. It's also a...
Life wasn’t made to be …
This quotation has become a companion, a reminder that life is – or at least should be - bigger than...
Located and alive
What a great way to spend a day, a perfectly Daoist state. Hoping you can also take in the brilliant...
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