As a Special Correspondent for Getty Images, John Moore’s work has taken him around the world, often to places of great conflict and human drama. Here, he shares a story about the pursuit of a singular photograph. In the hills of the Congo Rainforest, that literally brought him to his knees. We approach life full of expectations... can we make room for the magic that occurs when things don’t go as planned?
As an astronomer and science communicator, Michelle Thaller thinks deeply about our place in the universe. In her Meditative Story, she explores the significance of a single human — you — in a universe so immense that your very existence is of no consequence ... yet of every consequence.
Thomas Page McBee is an author and a journalist and was the first transgender man to box in Madison Square Garden. But that fight, born out of a pitch to editors, wasn't about overpowering an opponent. It was about confronting his own fears – of masculinity, of aggression and inadequacy – and winning.
Lucy Kalanithi is a doctor and the widow of Paul Kalanithi, author of the memoir "When Breath Becomes Air." Her Meditative Story becomes a coda to his book. She is moved to share it because, as she says: "I try to make life deeper and richer by opening up space to talk about hard things."