Doug Anderson: Hourglass
Began to watch the hourglass when there were seven grains left in the neck, each one particular, crystalline, containing a world neglected up till now, what mansions and rivers are … Continue reading
Joshua Dubois: What the President secretly did at Sandy Hook Elementary School
Below is an excerpt from The President’s Devotional by Joshua Dubois, the former head of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. He’s recounting events that occurred Sunday, December … Continue reading
Video: Akira Kurosawa – Composing Movement
In this short “supercut” video essay, Tony Zhou shows how Akira Kurosawa uses movement in his shots to capture mood and character. — Shot from Seven Samurai
Video: Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation
What did Shakespeare’s English sound like to Shakespeare? To his audience? And how can we know such a thing as the phonetic character of the language spoken 400 years ago? … Continue reading
Marilyn Monroe: Men Are Climbing To The Moon But They Don’t Seem Interested In The Beating Human Heart
[ed. note: On February 5th of 1961, a recently divorced, mentally exhausted Marilyn Monroe was taken by her psychiatrist, Dr. Marianne Kris, and committed to the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in … Continue reading
Audio: Flannery O’Connor reads “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (rare recording)
Mary Flannery O’Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964). Author of two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries, O’Connor lived most … Continue reading
Video: “The Ballad of the Skeletons” by Allen Ginsberg with Paul McCartney and Philip Glass
In October of 1995, Ginsberg visited Paul McCartney and his family at their home in England. He recited The Ballad of the Skeletons while one of McCartney’s daughters filmed it. … Continue reading
James M. Kauffman: Why can’t I own a Canadian?
Dear Dr. Laura: Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God’s Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and try to share that knowledge … Continue reading
30 Great Quotations from Rebecca Solnit on Walking
“[In Pride and Prejudice] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: Prayer for Paul
The fist that held your heart releases, the hot knife of your shame turns to water, the kernels of blackened corn by which you counted your imagined crimes, are carried … Continue reading
Naomi Shihab Nye: Kindness
Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, … Continue reading
Video: Frida Kahlo (rare footage)
A montage of short clips of Frida Kahlo set to Esa Noche a song by Café Tacuba. We see Kahlo working in her studio, as well as talking with her husband Diego … Continue reading
Per Espen Stoknes: The Great Grief — How To Cope with Losing Our World
Climate scientists overwhelmingly say that we will face unprecedented warming in the coming decades. Those same scientists, just like you or I, struggle with the emotions that are evoked by … Continue reading
Grandpa Elliot and others: Stand by Me
When faced with the power of music, the 1% doesn’t stand a chance. From the award-winning documentary, “Playing For Change: Peace Through Music”, comes the first of many “songs around … Continue reading
