Sarah Kay
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TED Talks Daily · "a Bird Made of Birds" | Sarah Kay
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Why Does a Fig Become Possible After a Lady Wasp Dies Inside a Flower?
A fig becomes possible when a lady wasp lays her eggs inside a flower, dies, and decomposes into the fruit, leaving evidence of her transformation. The fruit may not be first or ever best, but offering it is the only way to be sure that the life inside the flower was lived at all.
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How Do You Respond When the Universe Has Already Written the Poem?
For the first time, the reminder did not fill the moment with despair. Maybe the job is not to invent something new. Maybe the job is to listen to what the universe is showing, keep yourself open to what it offers, and hold something to the light just for a moment, only for as long as you have it.
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What Happened When the Starlings Shifted in the Sky?
Birds called starlings fly in a murmur oration, generally just a big cloud of birds. A quick phone video begins as an amorphous blob, then the birds shift and form the shape of a starling in the sky, so the flock briefly looks like the animal it is made from.
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Why Did a Whale Heart Caption Horrify Sarah Kay?
When Cav A shared the photo, the caption called it another reminder that the universe has already written the poem you were planning on writing. The first response was horror, because inventing new metaphors and discovering beauty that has not been discovered yet still leaves the universe always getting there first.
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What Happened When a Fellow Poet Found a Photo of a Blue Whale Heart?
A fellow poet named Cobb Ahkbar found an online photo of the anatomical heart of a blue whale that scientists had hung on a hook from the ceiling. That display let them observe that the heart is big enough for a person to stand up fully inside it.