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Together for 25 years and married for seven, Marcela and Rock know the adaptive aspects of love better than most. Participating in a project in which they’ve agreed to honestly answer questions about their relationship, the couple’s complicated past slowly emerges, revealing a relationship that’s survived infidelity, imprisonment and dishonesty.
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Since 2012, Aeon has established itself as a unique digital magazine, publishing some of the most profound and provocative thinking on the web. We ask the big questions and find the freshest, most original answers, provided by leading thinkers on science, philosophy, society and the arts.
Albert Camus Built a Philosophy of Humanity on a Foundation of Absurdity
With a worldview formed amid the unfathomable human suffering of the early 20th century, Albert Camus’s writings reflect on the inherent absurdity of the human condition, including his best-known work, the novella The Stranger (1942).
Love evolves and death isn’t worth your worry – life lessons from an 88-year-old
An intimate and artful slice-of-life portrait, Inga captures the routines and reflections of an 88-year-old woman named Inga Boysen. Framed as a peek into her daily life and careful reflections as she records a memoir in a notebook, this documentary by the Danish-born, Norwegian-based filmmaker Uffe Mulvad follows Boysen through everyday routines of waking, writing, exercising and bathing in a nearby lake.
How Do You Save An Endangered Redwood Forest? Making Your Home In The Treetops
Among Giants follows a small group of environmental activists into the high canopy of an ancient redwood grove, where they have made their homes. Both the grove and the surrounding forests were marked for clear-cutting when the activists began their tree-sit.
Amid the chaos of being, Nietzsche believed that plants offer us inspiration for living
Aristotle thought that plants possess what he called a ‘vegetative soul’. Centred on growing and reproducing, this primordial, unthinking state of being was encompassed and far surpassed by the ‘rational soul’ of humans.
‘What does sex mean to you?’ A fly-on-the-wall view of relationship counselling
Iain and Susan have been together for 33 years but they can’t seem to have a conversation without it spiralling into an argument. Dave longs for a loving a relationship, but lacks the confidence to ask anyone out.
Happiness doesn’t follow success
Work hard, become successful, then you’ll be happy. At least, that’s what many of us were taught by our parents, teachers and peers. The idea that we must pursue success in order to experience happiness is enshrined in the United States’ most treasured institutions (the Declaration of Independence), beliefs (the American dream), and stories (Rocky and Cinderella).