6 May,2022 | Brain Pickings, Personal Development
A two-wheel romp through the topography of progress from Victorian times to rural Spain to twentieth-century America. “You are at all times independent. This absolute freedom of the cyclist can be known only to the initiated,” Maria Ward wrote in her blazing 1896...
27 May,2020 | Brain Pickings, Personal Development
“All the loveliness that is in nature came to me with such a surge of deep happiness.” In 2019, the New York Philharmonic commissioned composer and force of nature Paola Prestini — co-founder of National Sawdust, that visionary locus of possibility...
