The joy of being an unwilling traveler through life, by Maya Shankar

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The stuff I'm here to study: Life on life on life, by Nalini Nadkarni

Ecologist Nalini Nadkarni – known as the "Queen of the Forest Canopy” – has spent a career clambering around tree tops, studying the interdependence of plants and animals in an ecosystem. But when an accident in the canopy brings Nalini's work to an abrupt halt, she is forced to ...  Show more

You are enough, messiness and all, by Jessamyn Stanley

Jessamyn Stanley, author of Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance, realizes one day that her life has become filled with unwanted clutter. Suddenly, how she’s perceived on the outside no longer reflects what she feels on the inside. But in her efforts to minimize her footprint and liv ...  Show more

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