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The Patience to Bear Sorrow
In these times, resilience is enjoying a great deal of support from scholars of psychology as a personal quality that enables people to bounce back from trauma and loss. But in an essay on aeon.co, …
Filled with Fire and Light
Colorful presentations of obscure figures (including God) from the Bible and Jewish texts.
My Mind Adrift
Photograph by Arina Stetsiuk, age 16, Ukraine
Written by Ananya Verma, age 15, India
Author’s Note: I have written this poem about a man suffering from dementia trying to recall moments from t…
Life’s Passion
Indigenous Wisdom
Keep your passion alive –
It will warm you when the
world around you grows cold.
— Shamaan Ochaum Climbing Eagle quoted in Life Prayers from Around the World
Relic
An imaginative and moving depiction of dementia’s toll on a family.
Essays After Eighty
Musings by an elderly poet watching the world go by outside his window.
The Organized Mind
Tips from a bestselling neuroscientist on organizing our lives.
Engineering Happiness
A fresh and fascinating examination of the subject of happiness – one of the best on the subject in many a moon.
Bonneville
A heartfelt drama about a grieving woman who embarks with her two best friends on a pilgrimage across the West seeking meaning and closure.
The Savages
A razor-sharp depiction of all the complications of a brother and sister reunion when they need to put their estranged father in a nursing home.