How the Great Zen Master and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Found Himself and Lost His Self in a Library Epiphany

"To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible."

The generic headline and the lazy slogan

If you can swap your slogan with a competitor’s without changing the meaning of either brand, then your slogan is meaningless. For example, “You belong here” is not a positioning statement for a college seeking new students. It’s just noise. It also doesn’t help to mix weasel

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Legendary Artist Sheila Hicks, at 92, on the Secret to Creative Vitality

Art, Georgia O’Keeffe believed, springs from “the desire to make the unknown known… and keeping the unknown always beyond you.” We seem to have drifted lightyears away from that motive force, the majority of our epoch’s cultural production aiming to render the market maximally

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Pace, William Kentridge, “AlgaeBTQ+”

We pull back the curtain on the official gallery narrative. Plus, the memes take off as Trump’s reflecting pool gets murkier.

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How to Be a Tree: Notes on the Resilience of Letting Go

This essay and poem are part of the Universe in Verse book. Trees grant us some of the richest metaphors for our own lives — a polished lens on the quality of attention we pay the world. “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing

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July 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

Don't miss these July and August deadlines! Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article July 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for

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