Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
alina stefanescu, writer
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My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world now. Ours is a time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous rage over the latest degradations of what matters most to civilized, visionary people.
This Is Water David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech
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“I cannot say exactly how nature exerts its calming and organizing effects on our brains,” the poetic neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote in the dawning years of the twenty-first century, “but I have seen in my patients the restorative and healing powers of nature and gardens, even for those who are deeply disabled neurologically.”
Maria Popova • The Healing Power of Nature and Beauty: Florence Nightingale on Expediting Recovery from Illness and Burnout
A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
A challenge to herself
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