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Way-Seeking Mind

Ode to the Radio Telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Before its Collapse

December 7, 2021December 7, 2021 Ellis Elliott

BY MARY DINGEE FILLMORE You listen all the time to the whispers of faraway stars’ radio signals. They barely flutter, but you’re more sensitive than any other telescope in the world.

Tagged astronomy, beauty, listening, observation, space, Stars, Universe5 Comments
Anais Nin
Book Bits

The Expression of a Better World – Anaïs Nin on Transience and the Painful, Familiar Beauty of Music

November 20, 2021November 19, 2021 Vanessa Able

Anaïs Nin on music, mortality, and what it is to glimpse a joyful vision of a land from which we came and which we have forgotten.

Tagged Death, exile, impermanence, intervals, music, nostalgia, notes, sorrow, space, transience1 Comment
Pippa Goldschmidt
Book Bits

Astronomer Pippa Goldschmidt on Seeing Far and Seeing Up Close

August 27, 2021August 27, 2021 Vanessa Able

Astronomer Pippa Goldschmidt on working in the starry deserts of Chile during a time when new technologies meant a more remote relationship to the act of stargazing.

Tagged alienation, astronomy, connection, relation, remoteness, scale, space, Stars, UniverseLeave a comment
Micro Gallery

Cynthia Ruse – The In-Between

March 23, 2021March 22, 2021 Vanessa Able

Cynthia Ruse's The In-Between reflects the parallel and layered elements of life, where light and darkness are blurred and the narrative of a painting becomes experience in itself.

Tagged art, Darkness, Experience, layer, Light, painting, space2 Comments
Diane Ackerman
Poetry

Diane Ackerman – We Are Listening

January 27, 2021January 27, 2021 Vanessa Able

'We Are Listening' is steeped in a sense of wonder at the scale of the universe, coupled with a tenderness towards the fragility of life.

Tagged Cosmos, eternity, existence, fragility, humanity, listening, Loneliness, space, timeLeave a comment
Aldous Huxley
Book Bits

Aldous Huxley and Beauty

July 31, 2020July 31, 2020 Vanessa Able

Huxley on the beatific vision of divine beauty that resides in Pure Interval and harmonious relationship, and experiencing the divine through architecture, music, sacred geometries and human relationships.

Tagged beauty, Emptiness, God, harmony, intervals, nothingness, order, relationship, space, ugliness, vision1 Comment
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