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The Weasel and the Meaning of It All: Annie Dillard on How to Live

Suppose we answer the most important question of existence in the affirmative. There is then only one question remaining: How shall we live this life? Despite all the technologies...

Dinos Meet Carl Sagan and a Marriage on the Rocks

The family has put together the Big Premise (a solar flare has flung Oak Street back to the Mesozoic era). The dad predicts, “God's not gonna let us die here.” Source

Neighbor Matters: How we (un)learn to care

We are born caring. We are socialized not to care. So our writer invites you to tap into your inner child and care without permission.

Ocean of Stars: A Painted Poem About How to Bear the Astonishment of Life

Here we are, bewildered miracles of chemistry and chance, trembling embers of dead stars capable of sign and song, a wild bet against probability that won. We have dreamt up origin...

What Happens When We Die

"How can a creature who will certainly die have an understanding of things that will exist forever?"

Bearing Children in a Fractured World

Personal Perspective: As the 9/11 anniversary approaches, a timeless question: How do we choose to bring children into an uncertain world—and what keeps us hopeful?

Rachel Heng on Safety and the Power of the Child’s-Eye View

The author discusses her story “A Very Safe Place.”

Are Babies Conscious?

By pinpointing when it begins in young humans, scientists hope to better understand what consciousness is, and how it arises, in all of us.

Where Has My Mother’s Knowledge Gone?

“Where Is Here?” an excerpt from I’m Still Here by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, translated by Alison Entrekin & Daniel Hahn We don’t remember the first images and accomplishments of o...

An Ecosystem of Her Own

Maren Hassinger’s alchemical touch transforms the most resistant materials into evocations of the endlessly changing natural world.

CALIFORNIA INSIDE OUT

Award-winning naturalist, poet, and painter Kaufmann (The California Field Atlas, 2017, etc.) invites readers to redefine stewardship of the earth, by uniting “ecological science,...

Beyond “Cute”: Classroom Chicks and the Aims of Education

In the final weeks of the summer term, my five-year-old daughter came home each day with updates on the eggs that they had at school: how they’d all hatched, what they’d been named...

Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life

We are the survivors of immense and minute events — violent cosmic collisions and subtle genetic mutations, the deaths of innumerable suns and the births of innumerable cells, the...

ノーベル文学賞アン・カーソンは「環境批評の作家」　鴻巣×藤井対談

Hidden Answers.

After my unexpectedly emotional reaction to Hill’s rentree, I spent some time mining for meaning. My first thought: sometimes motherhood just nails you out of the blue, no reason o...

BETWEEN

“Between day / and night,” a moth flies by, flutteringly releasing a contrail of magical dust. “Between near / and far,” a cricket rests on a leaf, watching a waning crescent moon...

The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales,” Einstein reportedly told one mother who wished for her son to become a scientist. “If you want them to be very...

Why Leaves Change Color and How We Become Who We Are: The Science of Chlorophyll and the Poetics of Personhood

"We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us."

The Tree and the River: A Wordless Love Letter to How Nature Always Wins

Nested between two giant cedars in the remote old-growth forest where I live much of the year are the rusted remains of boxy car. A tree root has seized one of the rear wheels. A s...

Love blooms on a hostile colony world in As You Wake, Break the Shell

Sci-fi author Becky Chambers on designing believable ecosystems, balancing scientific accuracy with emotional impact and emphasizing empathy over spectacle

Your Kid Just Asked Where Babies Come From. Here's What To Say Next

I’ll never forget the moment my daughter asked me where babies came from. It was about 8.30pm and she was tucked up in bed ready to go to sleep. In classic inquisitive four-year-ol...

Fifteen Balloons Blocked His Rear Window

He had a car stuffed with fifteen birthday balloons and was soulfully singing along to a sacred chant when he reversed full-speed into a stranger's brand-new SUV. What Matthias Hom...

How to Break Free from the Tyranny of Certainty: The Japanese Concept of “Ma”

“Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know,'” the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska observed in her magnificent Nobel Prize acceptance speech. But despite all...

I’m Right Here, by Michelle Grace | Dedicated Review

In this lyrical meditation from a mother to her child, the bonds of love take readers on a journey from the beginning of time through their own life and birth. The post I’m Right H...