While there is still time

 Amazing facts shared by my farmer friend Madhu Reddy , from an article in Down to Earth :  "The Baiga are an ethnic group found in ce...

"By choosing assimilation, China’s Hui have become one of the world’s most successful Muslim minorities." "Surprisingly, the...

".....one Sunday morning in 1971, Lewis was summoned to a terrifying scene. A man was holding a loaded gun on his family, threatening ...

"...Storr sees in Churchill's story a classic relationship between depression and hostility, in which an emotionally deprived chil...

"...For most of his life, he (Winston Churchill) crumbled under the repeat blows of a depression so familiar, loud, and unshakable, th...

"In his exquisite taxonomy of the nine kinds of silence, Paul Goodman included “the silence of listening to another speak, catching th...

"We worship individuality and long for freedom, but we are invariably drawn to crowds, which leaves us with a resentful ambivalence to...

Myth and Creativity: Ariadne’s Thread and a Path Through the Labyrinth Allison Stieger "The process of living creatively brings new t...

Mary Oliver, while speaking about her late partner, Molly Cooke, in 'Our World': "It has frequently been remarked, about my ow...

Beaver Moon - The Suicide of a Friend Mary Oliver When somewhere life breaks the pane of glass, and from every direction casual voice...

      A Duel and a Duet as Flamenco and Kathak Face Off Israel Galván is the maverick of the flamenco world, a brilliantly...

Phone Therapy Ellen Bass I was relief, once, for a doctor on vacation and got a call from a man on a window sill. This was New York, a...

"I didn't tell anyone about my experience because I couldn't make my mouth form the words. And I mean that literally; it is li...

"Wittgenstein said, ‘All I know is what I have words for.’ And I think that if you don’t have the words for it, you can’t explain to s...

"In 2013, she decided to begin a series that dealt with the realities of what it means to put on a brave face while simultaneously cop...

Like Robin Williams and Spike Milligan and everybody. Your Personal Ghosts Scott Adams http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/your_personal_ghosts/ ...

“Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or...

"For many years Sergeant Kevin Briggs had a dark, unusual, at times strangely rewarding job: He patrolled the southern end of San Fran...

Splendid road trip documentary, and not just for the ride and the stunning locales, but the amazing conversations with the funniest wisest ...

Helen Lloyd is a British cyclist who cycles solo through remote parts of Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia. Watching these in slideshow full sc...