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"A symbolic moment of peace, grace, and humility amidst one of humanity’s most violent and disgraceful events".
"In December of 1914, a series of grassroots, unofficial ceasefires took hold of the Western Front in the heat of WWI. On Christmas, soldiers from an estimated 100,000 British and German troops began to exchange seasonal greetings and sing songs across the trenches",........ Continue Reading

"I am not and have never been a reviewer of books — a person who surveys the landscape of literature with the goal of evaluating its features. I am and have always been a solitary sojourner who relishes curious excursions hither and dither, guided by a thoroughly subjective inner compass, wandering the wilderness of words by pleasant deviations from the common trail."

These are my footsteps.

Maya Angelou (1928-2014) American writer, poet, singer, and civil rights activist

Read more at Brainpickings by Maria Popova - Photo Credit: York College ISLGP

“How we spend our days,” Annie Dillard wrote in her timelessly beautiful meditation on presence over productivity, “is, of course, how we spend our lives.” ...Continue reading 

A lush serenade to the patience and fortitude of living with uncertainty and letting life unfold on its own terms.............Read More

Remembering a rare hero who enlarged the human heart for epochs to come...............  Read More

“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, / you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”  Read More

“There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through .......Read more

“Some books are toolkits you take up to fix things, from the most practical to the most mysterious, from your house to your heart, or to make things, from cakes to ships. Some books are wings… Some books are medicine, bitter but clarifying.” .........Click to read more

Click to read the article about Henry Miller's "On Turning Eighty" on Brain Pickings

Click to read Maria Popova's article about  Thoreau and the Language of Trees on Brain Pickings 

“The impression we derive from a book, depends much less upon its real contents, than upon the temper of mind and preparation with which we read it" ..........Click here to read Maria Popova's article on Brain Pickings