At watching-grass-grow.com, you can watch Alex Komarnitsky’s lawn. In Southwest magazine, Bradford Pearson profiles Komarnitsky and explores his own fascination with a stranger’s front lawn.
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Travel, Foreignness, and the Spaces in Between: A Pico Iyer Reading List
Seven reads by Pico Iyer on travel and finding one’s place in the world.
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Longreads Guest Pick: Kristen Majewski on 'How Meditation Works'
Kristen Majewski is the social media editor of Prevention.com. My pick for this week is ‘How Meditation Works,’ by Liz Kulze, in The Atlantic. Meditation is often dismissed as New Age and hokey, but Kulze does a wonderful job of making mindful meditation an accessible notion and perhaps even a necessary one. She is absolutely […]
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A man travels to the Dhamma Giri meditation center in western India to learn the meditation style known as Vipassana—the same meditation used by the Buddha to reach enlightenment 25 centuries ago. Enlightenment doesn’t come easy: There are no further instructions. And I can’t ask anyone what I’m supposed to do. So I sit, striving […]