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Poems, essays and the slow-reading canon of the inner life.

Analysis

Emotional Intelligence

Literature

Emotional Intelligence

A reflective analysis of Daniel Goleman's book: why the mind that feels so often decides the life that the mind that thinks had planned.

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The Five Love Languages

Literature

The Five Love Languages

A reflective analysis of Gary Chapman's book: why can two people care deeply for one another and still feel emotionally distant?

Rilke and Living the Questions

Literature

Rilke and Living the Questions

Patience with the unresolved, and the letter that keeps saving young poets.

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The Five Love Languages

The Five Love Languages

Gary Chapman

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence

Daniel Goleman

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Letters to a Young Poet

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke

Gallery

Peonies at first light
Peonies at first light
A painted lady on cornflower
A painted lady on cornflower
Alpine morning, still water
Alpine morning, still water
October, English beechwood
October, English beechwood
Tuscan sunflowers, late July
Tuscan sunflowers, late July
Cherry blossom, a promise
Cherry blossom, a promise
“Tend the small path daily and one day you will find you have made a garden.”

— A note from the notebook