Author: Tracy Cochran

Tracy Cochran is editorial director of Parabola. For more information, please visit tracycochran.org.

Everything is Burning

The Burning of the Houses of Parliament. Author unknown. C.1834, oil on panel. Yale Center for British Art. Wikimedia Commons. Source/Photographer: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/RgGPJOYOSROUkw

In a world on fire, finding the light that guides

The Night of the Hessian Soldier

The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, December 26, 1776 (detail). John Trumbell, between 1786 and 1828. Oil on canvas. Yale University Art Gallery. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

A haunted inn inspires deeper questions

A Good Start

A Dutch Village, ‘Guernica’, and the power of remembering

We’re In It Now

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the declaration of war against Japan, December 8, 1941. Photograph by Abbie Rowe. National Archives and Records Administration

The greatest shocks can inspire the deepest wisdom

Down the Well

Bellin Map of the Great Lakes. Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, 1755. Native American territories are clearly delineated. Wikimedia Commons. Source: Atlas Homannianus Mathematic-Historice Delineatus, (Homann Heirs, Nuremberg), 1755

What we need is right at hand

Lucky Man

Gift of Marielle Bancou-Segal, in memory of the vision of William Segal, 2002. Japan, fourteenth century. Wood, gilt bronze, colored beads, crystal. Metropolitan Museum of Art (detail)

Life lessons from William Segal

Let It Be: a guided meditation with Tracy Cochran

A guided meditation on being gentle with yourself when things are hard, with Parabola’s editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola’s mission, please consider donating. 

A Night in the Forest, by Tracy Cochran

In the darkness, the Buddha found light

Butternut Goddess

Discovering the divine in her own backyard

Watching the Wild Things, by Tracy Cochran

Going to the movies, mindfully