Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast Universe

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November 28, 2020 a project of ServiceSpace Your luminosity is intrinsic, but your brightness will depend on who is looking at you. - Ella Frances Sanders - Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast Universe Says Maria Popova of Ella Frances Sanders' latest book,"In fifty-one miniature essays, each accompanied by one of her playful and poignant ink-and-watercolor drawings, Sanders goes on to explore a pleasingly wide array of scientific mysteries and facts -- evolution, chaos theory, clouds, the color blue, the nature of light, the wondrousness of octopuses, the measurement of time, Richard Feynman's famous cataclysm sentence, the clockwork mesmerism of planetary motion, our microbiome, the puzzlement of why we dream. What emerges is something sweetly consonant with Nabokov's exultation at our "capacity to wonder at trifles" -- except, of course, even the smallest and most invisible of these processes, phenomena, and laws are not trifles but condensed miracles that make the everythingness of everything we know." { read more } Be The Change Check out more of Sanders' lovely and thought-provoking work here: "11 Untranslatable Words From Other Cultures." { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Guide to Well-Being During Coronavirus Being Resilient During Coronavirus Children, Anger Control and Inuit Wisdom On Being Alone How to Strengthen Your Inner Shield The Joy of Being a Woman in Her Seventies Orion's 25 Most-Read Articles of the Decade 5 Core Practices for More Meaningful Conversations DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 246,010 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More