“Nothing like this has ever happened before or will ever happen again,” a friend said to me about a lucky turn of events — a statement that struck me as touchingly self-negating: …

Recovering the “forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence” alive in the back of our modernity-deadened minds.

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 myths and cosmol…

“Beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.”

“All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured,” Tove Jansson wrote in one of our civilization’s great works of philosophy disguised as a child…

Exploring the intersection of time and decision-making to shine a light on what it means to be human.

“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem — in my opinion — to characterize our age.”

“Sit. Feast on your life.”

A story of transmuting the grief of one life into a celebration of the grandeur of Life.

Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.