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🪐 Wholeness, Imagination and The Cosmos: A free mind-expanding lecture series from the inimitable Iain McGilchrist beginning with an exploration of division and unity. Watch it here.

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🐦‍⬛ Biomimicry: Learning from life’s genius. Read it here.

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🎇 Image of The Week

This image shows a classic von Kármán vortex street forming behind a cylinder in a fluid flow, made visible using hydrogen bubbles. As the fluid moves from left to right, it interacts with the cylinder and creates a repeating pattern of swirling vortices that alternate direction. The vortices shed one after another from opposite sides of the cylinder, forming a staggered, wave-like trail. This pattern reveals the natural instability that arises in fluid flow around blunt objects. Similar vortex streets can be seen in nature, such as in cloud formations downstream of islands or in ocean currents interacting with seamounts.

🙏 The Minuscule Gratitude

A disposition I find that deeply nourishes and fortifies us against the harsh winds of life is one that entrains the attention to focus on the almost microscopic aspects of our experience that are deserving of gratitude.

What are some examples of these moments?

The next inhale. The sun on your face. The smile of a passing stranger. The first sip of coffee in the morning. The warmth of shelter after being outside in the snow. The wag of a dog’s tail. A vivid moon in a night’s sky. An erupting laugh with a close friend. The whimsical skittering of a fallen leaf. The flicker of a candle flame. The next exhale.

There are so many things that are a joy to drink in through the senses if we can get out of our heads above the torrents of thought enough to truly appreciate them.

It’s so easy to be fixated on finding something more or something else that we completely miss the little details that can fill up an ordinary day with otherwise invisible treasure.

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📦 On Thingness

Sit with these words from Abraham Joshua Heschel:

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Subtend: to occupy an adjacent and usually lower position to and often so as to embrace or enclose.

⏳ From The Archives

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10 Deep Characteristics of Living Life as Inquiry

What is “living inquiry” or “living life as inquiry”?

“By living life as inquiry I mean a range of beliefs, strategies and ways of behaving which encourage me to treat little as fixed, finished, clear-cut. Rather I have an image of living continually in process, adjusting, seeing what emerges, bringing things into question … Living life as inquiry as a form of first-person action research is both deeply political and deeply personal. It is political in how it offers a way to both ground and connect research to a systemic change agenda. It is personal in that—fundamentally—it is about learning to be perpetually curious—and to stay alive to the choices and possibilities involved in leading an ethical and enriching life.”

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