How It Feels to Be Alive: Encounters with Art and Our Selves spiritual and evolutionary history of

spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe--and how we've all been doing it wrong for a long

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Sara Blum lives an idyllic life with her adoring parents in Vichy France

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How It Feels to Be Alive: Encounters with Art and Our Selves spiritual and evolutionary history ofA vital testament to how art makes us who we are and offers new ways of seeing our world and our lives. Barbara Kruger once defined art as "the ability to show and tell, through a kind of eloquent shorthand, how it feels to be alive." Testing that claim, How It Feels to Be Alive braids criticism with personal narrative to consider art's intimate effects and how it might help us find clarity in an uncertain world. When Megan O'Grady was a teenager, she