Browsing: attention

We’ve lost a handful of visionary writers in recent months and years: Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, and Annie Dillard come to mind for me, among others. These are people who not only inspired me as a writer in my formative years but who also shaped my moral imagination. In each case, learning about their deaths…

In my second year of Ayurvedic medical school, my eyes started burning around nine o’clock every night.