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Jul 29 2016

Jack Kerouac: Alone on a Mountaintop

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Tom Palumbo, Jack Kerouac.
Photograph: [CC BY-SA 2.0] Wikimedia Commons

The art of being on one’s own

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: alone on a mountaintop, american, beat generation, buddhism, diamond sutra, jack kerouac, lonesome traveler, prose, short story, tom palumbo, travel

Jun 17 2016

T. S. Eliot: A Man Out of Time

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Lady Ottoline Morrell, T. S. Eliot.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

The great Modernist poet on the meaning of life

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: american, four quartets, lady ottoline morrell, poetry, t s eliot, the love song of j alfred prufrock, the waste land

Jun 03 2016

Ansel Adams: The Search for Beauty

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Ansel Adams, Manzanar birds on wire.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

How the purpose of art reflects an ideal world

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: The Visual Arts · Tagged: american, ansel adams, documentary, photography, video

May 20 2016

Terrence Malick: The Tree of Life

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Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life.
Photograph: Fox Searchlight Pictures

A visionary masterpiece of the beginnings of time

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Film · Tagged: american, movie, terrence malick, the tree of life, video

May 13 2016

Emily Dickinson: A Woman Before Her Time

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Emily Dickinson.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

Reclusive poet who became the most celebrated poet of our time

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: american, emily dickinson, poetry, transcendentalism, women

May 06 2016

David Lynch: Catching the Big Fish

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Paula Marvelly, India.
Photograph: [CC BY-SA 4.0] The Culturium

How fishing in deep water puts us in touch with consciousness itself

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Wisdom · Tagged: advaita vedanta, american, catching the big fish, consciousness, creativity, david lynch, maharishi mahesh yogi, meditation, spirituality

Dec 17 2015

Alice Koller: An Unknown Woman

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Gustave Courbet, The Wave (1869).
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

How the solitary life by the sea gave one woman a reason to live

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: alice koller, american, an unknown woman, autobiography, gustave courbet, nantucket, nonfiction, prose, travel, women

Nov 24 2015

Jordan Belson: Sentience in Celluloid

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Jordan Belson, 5 Essential Films.
Photograph: Center For Visual Music

The alchemical art of depicting mystical states of the mind

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Film, The Visual Arts · Tagged: american, center for visual music, jordan belson, moving image, video

Nov 17 2015

J. D. Salinger: Franny and Zooey

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J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey.
Typeface: Seb Lester

How a young woman’s spiritual crisis is redeemed by the power of familial love

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: advaita vedanta, american, fiction, franny and zooey, j d salinger, prose, short story, the way of a pilgrim, zen buddhism

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