Metropolitan Kallistos says "Solitude is a state of soul, not a matter of geographical location. The real desert lies within the heart." In this episode, Dr. Rossi explores the healing nature of silence.

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Author Dan Richards, who has travelled to the ‘ends of the earth’, says he is now applying similar coping skills to being alone and indoors for weeks

You join me overlooking an empty Edinburgh crossroads, an indoorsman considering my new neck of the woods. Near-empty buses roll down Dundas Street and shush across the junction in the haar (fog). In this brave moot world – a month of Christmas mornings so far – I watch lone joggers and mothers with children, and wave at good dogs. I write to my friends. I check in by phone. “Yes,” I say, several times a week, “Edinburgh’s very nice. Quiet.”

Two years ago, I spent several months travelling for a book, seeking out solitude and remote locations – strange to think now. I visited wild places on the edge – frozen Soviet ghost towns, Mars missions in the Utah desert, shrines perched high on Japanese mountains – as well as spartan structures whose wildness emanated from within, such as Simon Starling’s metamorphic installation Shedboatshed, the writing “Wendy houses” of Roald Dahl and Tove Jansson, and Roger Deakin’s Suffolk shepherd’s hut.

Take a walk among the redwoods in this serene park in the Santa Cruz mountains.

The Toronto-based British author talks about his love of film and society's fascination with actors and celebrity with Eleanor Wachtel.

Family members aren't allowed into hospitals nor can they take part in funerals. Crematoriums are overloaded. The horrors of coronavirus still have a firm hold on northern Italy.

In his quarantine diary, "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" author Alexander McCall Smith writes lyrics, reads Auden and watches "Brideshead Revisited."

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These self-isolating desert fathers were connoisseurs of plants — and human nature

Serena Williams is not taking any chances. The tennis player and mother took to Instagram Friday with a sublime selfie video of herself getting made up, yet the caption was of a different nature entirely.

The 39-year-old beauty took to Instagram to share a photo of her husband sitting on his bike overlooking their $14 million ranch.

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