inside traffic east
transformation
As a child growing up in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood, Thomas Beauford would sometimes go to the rooftop of his building and look out to where the Statue of Liberty shone in the distance…
the happy place
Of the twelve students in the fiction writing workshop it is Ana who holds herself apart from the others. From you…
breathing like houdini
Houdini died 36 years before I was born, but while I lived in Wisconsin he felt very much alive and well and ever-present…
perpetual motion
Together, Peter and Elizabeth were fierce individuals and a force to be reckoned with…
connective threads
Everyone has a favorite t-shirt. You know exactly where you got it, what you were doing, who you were with. What you probably don’t know is who made it. But there’s a pretty good chance that it was Jon Weiss…
my querencia
In Spanish, we have the word querencia. In essence, it’s a magical place of safety, where one feels at home, where one finds their own soul’s strength…
the cutting edge: dr. dheerendra prasad
Perhaps Dr. Prasad–a self-described “nerd” since childhood, naturally drawn to the most mathematical specialties as a medical student–was always destined to land where he has…
torpedoes in time
An explosion in a shingle factory, the exile of an aristocrat, and the influence of four visionary women led to the creation of two of the leading museums of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and would bind their fates forever…
of time and the river
Nature teaches again and again the story of non-separation, of nesting withins. Isolation is impossible…
beth hollis and the business of giving back
Beth Hollis is not your average high-achieving corporate executive…
when you see it: dr. l nelson “nick” hopkins
In Dr. Nick Hopkins I knew it when I saw it–greatness, and the grit to change the world…
in time: mary wilson
As a woman who has lived her life in sports, Mary Wilson knows all too well what it means to be up against the clock…
persistence and triumph: dr. wesley hicks jr.
The lessons Dr. Wesley Hicks took from his parents and his own dedication to excellence in every endeavor have carried him to great heights over the course of his career…
judi lipsey: the architecture of preservation
Judi Lipsey is seated in a conference room on the Richardson Olmsted Campus in Buffalo, New York, recalling her late husband…
lipsey glass: the stanford lipsey art glass collection
Like all of his passions–newspapers, architecture, photography, jazz–Stan Lipsey’s love for fine art glass works grew steadily…
our abundant recompense: the still sad music of humanity
I was thankful to see more clearly the nature of our mortality, as if I had stepped out of Plato’s cave of ignorance into the light of a world where I could see and accept not just the beauty of the earth but its limitations…
a legacy: dr. shashi lele
Shashi Lele’s career in gynecologic oncology has spanned the world and left a lasting impact on the lives of thousands of patients…