Monthly Archives: August 2015

The Silent Music of the Mind: Remembering Oliver Sacks, by Maria Popova

Posted on August 31, 2015 by Makere

I was a relative latecomer to the work of Oliver Sacks (July 9, 1933–August 30, 2015), that great enchanter of storytelling who spent his life bridging science and the human spirit — partly because I was not yet born when … Continue reading →

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Big Blue

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Makere

Originally posted on Live & Learn:
https://youtu.be/yDrx5zi_mYU “When Patrick Dykstra saw a life-sized replica of a blue whale in the Smithsonian at age 16, he dreamed of having an underwater encounter with the biggest animal on Earth, according to the…

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How else, indeed

Posted on August 22, 2015 by Makere

Originally posted on Live & Learn:
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten;…

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We still have work ahead, as long as we can see.

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Makere

Originally posted on Live & Learn:
Like mine, the moon’s eyelid is droopy. It too is old and has been around. We pass our time together without saying a word, like brothers scything weeds long after dark. His scythe has…

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