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Hannah Nelson

Ancestors in the Grasses

On an evening walk I noticed three kinds of flowers I’d never seen. One, light and dark violet as well as burgundy bells, pointed around…

May 12, 2021

May 12, 2021

Philosophy of a Life: 2020

Trust the timing of discoveries that guide your path

Aug 30, 2020

Aug 30, 2020

How to Live Your Life as a Gift

A meditation on birth, death, and the stars.

Apr 17, 2020

Apr 17, 2020

The Undersides of Flowers

Sometimes the cherry blossoms tessellate, rotating slowly, inviting your head to tilt to one side or the other, as if the whole world were…

Mar 28, 2020

The Undersides of Flowers

Mar 28, 2020

What I Learned About Love From Becoming a Reiki Practitioner

On my desk is a card, framed for the quote beneath the picture of a mouse tiptoeing in front of a sleeping cat: “Do at least one thing…

Jan 26, 2020

Jan 26, 2020

Intentions from a Place of Contemplation

I live very much in my head. On Christmas Eve I sat down to dedicate some time to sorting through the chaos there. Today, on New Year’s…

Jan 1, 2020

Jan 1, 2020

Why I Live

An adapted stream of consciousness from a walk in early December

Dec 25, 2019

Dec 25, 2019

An Investigation of Angels

A thought flitted into my mind some weeks ago, which is that our thoughts are inherently and unavoidably selfish. We are able only to…

Dec 19, 2019

Dec 19, 2019

An Essay on Art, Connection, and Why We Change

What makes anyone more inclined at one point in their lives than at another to appreciate art? On what history must this openness to…

Oct 28, 2019

Oct 28, 2019

Welcome to Your Mid-Twenties

Twenty-four is the year I felt like an adult for the first time, which, as it so happens, is also the age at which the prefrontal cortex…

Aug 17, 2019

Aug 17, 2019

Hannah Nelson

Hannah Nelson

Essays that contemplate the human tendency to reveal beauty through art, and on “the perennial question of ‘how to live.’”

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