We suffer as human beings, but out of that can come enormous joys, and genuine happiness, too. It can run in tandem with this ordinary sense of suffering. Otherwise, joy doesn’t resonate fully. Joy seems to leap forth out of suffering. Regardless of your loss, you see how beautiful, how meaningful, how joyful the world can suddenly be. Human beings... See more

What shaped Hudson’s gift for channeling the beating heart of nature, for rendering the living world in such exultant and exacting detail, was the ruin of his best laid plans — an accident that befell him in Patagonia just before he left Argentina for good. Pulsating through it is the reminder that every loss of control is an invitation to... See more

Curiosity is fundamental. Always has been and always will be. We think art comes from trauma because we’re most curious when we’re devastated or in danger and we’re curious for an answer. You can be desperately curious. It doesn’t have to be a mild feeling. Some people say they can’t write when they’re happy. That’s because they write pain out of... See more