Guest Post: A Veteran’s Take on The Odyssey I went into Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey expecting spectacle—cyclopes, sirens, the IMAX cameras he dragged out onto the open ocean. What I walked out with was something closer to a mirror. Pride, hubris, and the one eye of the cyclops The film opens the way we like…
Bigger than Manhattan, Earth’s largest living organism sways in the surf south of Australia: Posidonia australis — a species of seagrass that, unable to flower, clones itself. Older than mathematics and the written word, it has been cloning itself since before the pyramids were built — a kind of immortality. And while I kiss my…
“Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am a river,” Borges wrote. “Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.” Most of us are not Borges. Most of us are drowning in bewilderment at where the time goes, burning with the urgency of being alive while waiting to…
It’s time for a slow, gentle December. I’m thrilled to announce that this daily, holiday e-mail gift program is back! Learn more about 31 Days of Gifts and how to share it with friends and family. We can’t wait to share these gifts with you! The post 31 Days of Gifts You So Deserve 2026…
