beauty, discovery, imagination
There are those who suggest that understanding too much of the workings of things diminishes our sense of wonder. Like many, I believe the opposite, the more we understand, the more pleasure we can derive from this complex thing called the universe.  Thus to a man...
beauty, colour, discovery, enchantment
What a teacher, this god who exhales perfumes and offers to impart his knowledge of nature’s flourishing. And what a syllabus: “I am the genius of clouds and sunshine,” answered Frey; and as he spoke, the essences of a hundred perfumes were exhaled...
discovery, enchantment, innocence, inspiration, resilience, sharing
An extraordinary account by a Russian writer, recounting how she and her sister, surviving as near beggars due to the political exile imposed on their parents in the Soviet Union, managed to think about poetry even while starved of food and kindness.  Their living...
