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The Marginalianby Maria Popova18d ago
Are You Working: In Defense of the Invisible Labors of Creativitiy By Maria Popova Once, at the gym with a physicist friend, I was struck by how no one else in the room had any idea that while she...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova18d ago
The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel By Maria Popova “No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life,” wrote...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova19d ago
Edward Abbey on How to Live and How to Die By Maria Popova The summer after graduating high school, knowing he would face conscription into the military as soon as his eighteenth birthday arrived...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova20d ago
Against the Cartesian Myth of Work/Life Balance: André Gregory’s Extraordinary Letter to Richard Avedon about the Nature of Creativity By Maria Popova Half a millennium into our recovery from the...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova20d ago
The Stoic Key to Living with Presence: Seneca on Time Spent vs. Saved vs. Wasted By Maria Popova “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,” Annie Dillard wrote in her abiding...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova20d ago
The Coziest Place on the Moon: Or, How to Bear Your Loneliness By Maria Popova On July 26, 2022, as I was living through a period of acute loneliness despite being a naturally solitary person, NASA...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova20d ago
On Losing a Parent By Maria Popova We spend our lives mastering the art of losing. Our necessary losses shape us; the unnecessary, senseless, devastating losses bend our shape to test our breaking...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova21d ago
Actuality vs. Possibility and How to Hear 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 Marginalianby Maria Popova21d ago
The Canon of Solitude: 200 Years of Great Writers, Artists, and Scientists on the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Fertile Aloneness By Maria Popova There is a silence at the center of each person...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova21d ago
The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on How to Grow Old and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart By Maria Popova “On how one orients himself to the moment,” 48-year-old Henry Miller...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova21d ago
How to Promise and How to Keep Promises from Breaking By Maria Popova We are creatures fragmentary but indivisible, each of us a whole that is always simpler than its parts, but complicated by the...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova22d ago
Virginia Woolf on Creativity By Maria Popova “Only art penetrates … the seeming realities of this world,” Saul Bellow asserted in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova22d ago
On Children: Poignant Parenting Advice from Kahlil Gibran By Maria Popova In the final years of his long life, which encompassed world wars and assassinations and numerous terrors, the great...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova23d ago
J.R.R. Tolkien on How to Fall in Love with Life By Maria Popova In 1964, Pantheon Books invited J.R.R.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova23d ago
Thomas Bernhard on Walking, Thinking, and the Paradox of Self-Reflection By Maria Popova “I: how firm a letter; how reassuring the three strokes: one vertical, proud and assertive, and then the two...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova23d ago
The Peace of Wild Things: Wendell Berry’s Poetic Antidote to Despair, Animated By Maria Popova UPDATE 2022: For more soulful animated poems, see my collaboration with On Being on an animated season...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova24d ago
Seneca on True and False Friendship By Maria Popova “Friendship is unnecessary,” C.S. Lewis wrote, “like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… it has no survival value; rather it is one...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova25d ago
The Moving Story of the Dawn Redwood: How a Fossil Came Back to Life to Bring Humanity Together in the Middle of Our Deadliest War By Maria Popova Sixty million years ago, when tropical climes...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova25d ago
The Fascinating Science of How We Think Not with the Brain But with the World By Maria Popova “Our minds are all threaded together,” the young Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary at the dawn of the...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova25d ago
How to Be a Good Explorer on the Lifelong Expedition to Yourself By Maria Popova Life is an ongoing expedition into the brambled tendrilled wilderness of ourselves, continually stymied by all we...
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