The concept of mottainai encompasses the idea of respecting resources and not wasting them, along with an inherent recognition of their value. (BBC)
Category: Arts and Culture
The Smithsonian has released more than 2.8 million images you can use for free
Included are images from all 19 Smithsonian museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo. (The Verge)
A Photographer’s Guide To ‘Slow Seeing’ The Beauty In Everyday Nature
Janelle Lynch invites you to look closer, and slower. She’d want you to see each image as a world in itself — not an accidental grouping of plant matter, but a well-ordered composition created by nature and fixed in time and space by her 8-by-10-inch large-format camera.
Her implicit message is that one needs only to be still, take your time and pay close attention to find the beauty that surrounds you. But, like meditation, this seemingly simple act is often more difficult than it appears.
(NPR)
How America Became “A City Upon a Hill”
Perry Miller, a midcentury Harvard scholar of history and literature, was a giant of academe. From 1931 to 1963, as the scholar Michael Clark has summarized, Miller “presided over most literary and historical research into the early forms of American culture.” He helped establish the study of what he called “American Civilization,” contributing to the rise of a new discipline, American Studies.
National Endowment For The Humanities
Be Here Now
Walking Through the House Where Louisa May Alcott Wrote Little Women
On Orchard House and the Biographical Foundations of a
Classic American Novel LitHub
Dean’s List 