If you want to befriend time — which is how you come to befriend life — turn to stone. Climb a mountain and listen to the conversation between eons encoded in each stripe of rock. Walk a beach and comb your fingers through the golden dust that was once a mountain. Pick up a
"Owning up: to recollect, to regret, to be responsible, ultimately to forgive and love."
Dozens of former employees of Noma tell of abuse & violence at the hands of its chef/owner, René Redzepi . Punching, screaming, shoving, stabbing, slamming, intimidation, ridicule, blacklisting. What an asshole.
"It isn’t perfect, not at all. It doesn’t need to be. It is, simply, what fills you up."
A suite at a New York Knicks game costs more than $30,000. Is that a donation to the team? Why do we differentiate between the money spent on a Super Bowl ticket and the check we write for a worthy cause? Does calling it a “donation” make it more valuable or less valuable to
This essay is adapted from Traversal. On April 5, 1815, as Napoleon is assembling his troops for the Battle of Waterloo, where he would meet his final defeat, the lieutenant-governor of Java leaps to his feet upon hearing the unmistakable roar of cannons in the distance while
A wonder-smitten reminder “that for all the horrible chaos of the contemporary political scene this world is full of kindness.”