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The Marginalianby Maria Popova7d ago
The Art of Looking: Eleven Ways of Viewing the Multiple Realities of Our Everyday Wonderland By Maria Popova “How we spend our days,” Annie Dillard wrote in her timelessly beautiful meditation on...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova8d ago
How to Read the Signal of Your Life By Maria Popova Sitting atop a Spanish mesa one sweltering August night, watching the Perseid meteor showers streak the sky with the debris of a comet burning...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova8d ago
The Gentle Giant: Oliver Sacks and the Art of Choosing Empathy Over Vengeance By Maria Popova “Compassion,” Karen Armstrong wrote in her stirring meditation on the true meaning of the Golden Rule...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova9d ago
The Ocean and the Meaning of Life By Maria Popova This essay is adapted from Figuring. In June of 1952, the United States Fish & Wildlife Service received a letter of resignation from its most...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova10d ago
Constellating Wonder: Celebrating 20 Years of The Marginalian (October 23, 2026) By Maria Popova At the dawn of my twenties, lonely, destitute, and disoriented by the demands of making a new life...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova10d ago
Arundhati Roy on the Deepest Measure of Success By Maria Popova Evolution invented REM sleep, that ministry of dreams, to give us a safe way of practicing the possible into the real.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova13d ago
The Wisdom of Water: Alan Watts on the Ocean and the Meaning of Life By Maria Popova Four billion years ago, in the hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the world where serpentine is forged...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova17d ago
How to Hold What Harrows You By Maria Popova We are shaped by all we have suffered — by what harrows us — and in turn shape our lives by how we hold our harrowing.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova21d ago
The Grasshopper and the “Lusory Attitude” Essential for Playing the Game of Life By Maria Popova On a recent flight, I watched a mother across the aisle play peek-a-boo with her small son while...
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