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The Paradise Notebooks: A Poet and a Geologist’s Love Letter to Life Lensed Through a Mountain

2024-04-26 17:26

How to Tell Love from Desire: José Ortega y Gasset on the Chronic Confusions of Our Longing

2024-04-24 17:52

The Merger Self, the Seeker Self, and the Lifelong Challenge of Balancing Intimacy and Independence

2024-04-21 21:55

Facts about the Moon: Dorianne Laux’s Stunning Poem about Bearing Our Human Losses When Even the Moon Is Leaving Us

2024-04-19 13:28

Shame and the Secret Chambers of the Self: Pioneering Sociologist and Philosopher Helen Merrell Lynd on the Uncomfortable Path to Wholeness

2024-04-17 13:31

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name

2024-04-13 00:38

Home: An Illustrated Celebration of the Genius and Wonder of Animal Dwellings

2024-04-12 01:12

The Parts We Live With: D.H. Lawrence and the Yearning for Living Unison

2024-04-10 16:12

But We Had Music: Nick Cave Reads an Animated Poem about Black Holes, Eternity, and How to Bear Our Lives

2024-04-06 13:30

Marie Howe’s Stunning Hymn of Humanity, Animated

2024-04-04 18:43

William James on Love

2024-04-03 15:51

Between Psyche and Cyborg: Carl Jung’s Legacy and the Countercultural Courage to Reclaim the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age

2024-03-30 00:27

An Ecology of Intimacies

2024-03-27 13:01

Love Anyway

2024-03-22 21:32

Awakened Cosmos: Poetry as Spiritual Practice

2024-03-21 17:55

We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt, the Power of Defiant Goodwill, and the Art of Beginning Afresh

2024-03-15 15:24

Something About the Sky: Rachel Carson’s Lost Serenade to the Science of the Clouds, Found and Illustrated by Artist Nikki McClure

2024-03-13 17:15

George Saunders on How to Live an Unregretting Life

2024-03-11 15:49

Cordyceps, the Carpenter Ant, and the Boundaries of the Self: The Strange Science of Zombie Fungi

2024-03-09 22:28

Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary

2024-03-06 16:59

The Middle Passage: A Jungian Field Guide to Finding Meaning and Transformation in Midlife

2024-03-04 01:48

The Ecstasy of Eternity: Richard Jefferies on Time and Self-Transcendence

2024-03-02 01:10

The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Outside the Confines of Conventional Friendship and Compulsory Coupledom

2024-02-29 02:39

Jonathan Franzen on How to Write About Nature, with a Side of Rachel Carson and Alice in Wonderland

2024-02-28 01:40

How Emotions Are Made

2024-02-24 01:33

Hermann Hesse on Discovering the Soul Beneath the Self and the Key to Finding Peace

2024-02-18 20:08

Endling: A Poem

2024-02-16 16:56

The Secret Life of Chocolate: Oliver Sacks on the Cultural and Natural History of Cacao

2024-02-15 16:33

Maira Kalman on How to Live with Remorse and Make of It a Portal of Creative Vitality

2024-02-13 16:20

Maira Kalman on How to Live with Remorse and Wrest from It Defiant Joy in Living

2024-02-13 16:20

Anne Morrow Lindbergh on Embracing Change in Relationships and the Key Pattern for Nourishing Love

2024-02-11 18:05

When Relationships Change: Anne Morrow Lindbergh on Embracing the Intermittency and Mutability of Love

2024-02-11 18:05

The Art of Allowing Change: Neurobiologist Susan R. Barry’s Moving Correspondence with Oliver Sacks about the Blessed Overwhelm of Transformation

2024-02-07 21:34

The Warblers and the Wonder of Being: Loren Eiseley on Contacting the Miraculous

2024-02-03 17:02

Thich Nhat Hanh on True Love and the Five Rivers of Self-Knowledge

2024-02-03 15:23

Between the Infinite and the Infinitesimal: A Scientist’s Search for the Fulcrum of Faith

2024-02-02 00:49

Time and the Soul: Philosopher Jacob Needleman on Our Search for Meaning

2024-01-31 01:08

How to Make a World: A Poem

2024-01-28 21:33

The Bird in the Heart: Terry Tempest Williams on the Paradox of Transformation and How to Live with Uncertainty

2024-01-26 16:59

War, Peace, and Our Possible Futures: George Saunders on Storytelling the World’s Fate and the Antidote to Media Manipulation

2024-01-24 20:20

War, Peace, and Possible Futures: George Saunders on Storytelling the World’s Fate and the Antidote to Media Manipulation

2024-01-24 20:20

Yes: William Stafford’s Poetic Calibration of Perspective

2024-01-21 17:50

What Makes a Compassionate World: Sophie de Grouchy’s Visionary 18th-Century Appeal to Parents and Teachers

2024-01-18 16:15

The Fairy Tale Tree

2024-01-15 00:58

Sentimentality and Being Mortal: Poet Mark Doty on the Passionate Fragility of Our Attachments

2024-01-13 21:24

Blue Glass

2024-01-11 22:02

The Science and Poetry of Anthotypes: Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium, Recreated in Hauntingly Beautiful Flower Pigment Prints via a Victorian Imaging Process

2024-01-09 20:35

The Two Souls Within: Hermann Hesse on the Dual Life of the Creative Spirit

2024-01-07 17:04

A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How Groups of Birds Got Their Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith

2024-01-04 17:02

Love and the Sacred

2024-01-03 17:01

A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings

2023-12-30 11:30

Of Wonder, the Courage of Uncertainty, and How to Hear Your Soul: The Best of The Marginalian 2023

2023-12-28 18:05

We Are the Music, We Are the Spark: Pioneering Biologist Ernest Everett Just on What Makes Life Alive

2023-12-25 22:26

What It’s Like to Be an Owl: The Strange Science of Seeing with Sound

2023-12-24 11:26

Hermann Hesse on What Books Give Us and the Heart of Wisdom

2023-12-22 15:44

What Books Give Us: Hermann Hesse on Reading and the Heart of Wisdom

2023-12-22 15:44

Favorite Children’s Books of 2023

2023-12-20 21:59

Favorite Books of 2023

2023-12-20 00:31

Working Out, Working In: Applying the Six Principles of Athletic Training to Writing and Creative Work

2023-12-17 14:12

The Power of a Thin Skin

2023-12-15 03:31

The Sky and the Soul: 19th-Century Norwegian Artist Knud Baade’s Transcendent Cloudscapes

2023-12-12 17:49

How the Sea Came to Be: An Illustrated Singsong Celebration of the Evolution of Life on Our Pale Blue Dot

2023-12-10 15:52

How to Bless Each Other: Poet and Philosopher John O’Donohue on the Light Within Us and Between Us

2023-12-09 00:45

Wonder Beyond Why: The Majesty and Mystery of the Birds-of-Paradise

2023-12-07 21:21

Poetic Ecology and the Biology of Wonder

2023-12-05 15:54

In the Dark: A Lyrical Illustrated Invitation to Find the Light Behind the Fear

2023-12-03 23:54

The Mind in the Machine: John von Neumann, the Inception of AI, and the Limits of Logic

2023-12-02 15:14

Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life

2023-11-29 02:50

How to Apologize: Reflections on Forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness, and the Paradox of Doing the Right Thing

2023-11-28 17:01

Alone Together: An Illustrated Celebration of the Art of Shared Solitude

2023-11-26 23:04

The Necessity of Our Illusions: Oliver Sacks on the Mind as an Escape Artist from Reality

2023-11-23 23:45

Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go

2023-11-21 17:41

The Majesty and Mystery of Night Migration, in a Stunning Poem Turned to Music

2023-11-18 16:56

A Tender Illustrated Celebration of the Many Languages of Love

2023-11-17 00:36

About War

2023-11-16 23:36

The First Scientist’s Guide to Truth: Alhazen on Critical Thinking

2023-11-14 23:46

Turning from Peril to Possibility: Ecological Superhero Christiana Figueres on the Spirituality of Regeneration

2023-11-13 00:51

The Work of Wonder: Phillip Glass on Art, Science, and the Most Important Quality of a Visionary

2023-11-10 22:45

The Night, the Light, and the Soul: Albert Pinkham Ryder’s Enchanting Moonscapes

2023-11-08 21:13

May Sarton on Generosity

2023-11-07 18:54

The Lost Drop: An Illustrated Celebration of the Wonder of the Water Cycle and the Interconnected Ongoingness of Life

2023-11-05 19:03

bell hooks on Love

2023-11-04 02:12

From Stardust to Sapiens: A Stunning Serenade to Our Cosmic Origins and Our Ongoing Self-Creation

2023-11-03 00:30

Octavia Butler on Religion and the Spirituality of Symbiosis

2023-11-02 00:43

The Warped Side of Our Universe: A Painted Epic Poem about the Dazzling Science of Spacetime

2023-10-31 22:21

Blue Is the Color of Desire: The Science, Poetry, and Wonder of the Bowerbird

2023-10-29 16:36

Alain de Botton on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind

2023-10-26 03:05

Starlings and the Magic of Murmurations: A Stunning Watercolor Celebration of One of Earth’s Living Wonders

2023-10-25 01:28

17 Life-Learnings from 17 Years of The Marginalian

2023-10-23 03:04

How to Be a Living Poem: Lucille Clifton on the Balance of Intellect and Intuition in Creative Work and the Healing Power of Connection

2023-10-21 18:41

Yellow Butterfly: A Moving Wordless Story About War, Hope, and Keeping the Light Alive

2023-10-19 15:57

To Be a Person: Jane Hirshfield’s Playful and Poignant Poem About Bearing Our Human Condition

2023-10-17 15:54

The Rigor of Angels: Human Nature and the Nature of Reality

2023-10-15 22:59

A Stone Is a Story: An Illustrated Love Letter to Deep Time and Earth’s Memory

2023-10-14 02:03

Roxane Gay on Loving vs. Being in Love and the Mark of a Soul Mate

2023-10-11 23:29

Milan Kundera on Animal Rights and What True Human Goodness Really Means

2023-10-09 14:51

The Importance of Trusting Yourself: Nick Cave on the Relationship Between Creativity and Faith

2023-10-07 15:43

Octavio Paz on Freedom

2023-10-04 14:38

After Love: Maxine Kumin’s Stunning Poem About Eros as a Portal to Unselfing

2023-10-03 01:16

Ursula K. Le Guin on Change, Menopause as Rebirth, and the Civilizational Value of Elders

2023-09-30 16:42

I Touched the Sun: A Tender Illustrated Fable About How to Find and Bear Your Inner Light

2023-09-28 17:03

I Touched the Sun: A Tender Illustrated Parable About How to Find and Bear Your Inner Light

2023-09-28 17:03

Center of the Universe: Non-Speaking Autistic Poet Hannah Emerson’s Extraordinary Poem About How to Be Reborn Each Day

2023-09-26 17:03

How to Own Your Human-Heartedness: Alan Watts on the Confucian Concept of Jen and the Dangers of Self-Righteousness

2023-09-24 16:04

How to Own Your Weakness: Alan Watts on the Confucian Concept of Jen and the Dangers of Self-Righteousness

2023-09-24 16:04

How to Befriend Time: The Gospel of Pete Seeger and Nina Simone

2023-09-22 02:39

Octavia Butler’s Advice on Writing

2023-09-20 13:21

Mars and Our Search for Meaning: A Planetary Scientist’s Love Letter to Life

2023-09-18 20:10

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating: An Uncommon Meditation on Presence and the Aperture of Wonder

2023-09-16 17:19

The Living Wonder of Leafcutter Ants, in Mesmerizing Stop Motion

2023-09-16 12:15

The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul

2023-09-13 00:53

Eunice Newton Foote and the Birth of Climate Science: The Forgotten Woman Who Discovered the Greenhouse Effect

2023-09-12 14:53

Milan Kundera on the Power of Coincidences and the Musicality of How Chance Composes Our Lives

2023-09-11 16:29

The Half-Life of Hope

2023-09-10 00:36

How to Eat the Sun: A Blind Hero of the Resistance on Accessing the Light Within and Touching the Oneness of the World

2023-09-06 19:55

How to Live in Light: A Blind Hero of the French Resistance on Seeing the Heart of Life and Contacting the Oneness of Being

2023-09-06 19:55

Kate Sessions and the Devotion to Delight: The Forgotten Woman Who Covered California with Trees and Flowers

2023-09-05 17:11

The Moon and the Yew Tree: Patti Smith Reads Sylvia Plath’s Haunting Portrait of Depression

2023-09-04 17:18

Leaning Toward Light: A Posy of Poems Celebrating the Joys and Consolations of the Garden

2023-08-31 16:11

D.H. Lawrence on the Hypocrisies of Social Change and What It Actually Takes to Shift the Status Quo

2023-08-29 15:23

Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being

2023-08-27 15:10

The Poetic Science of the Ghost Pipe: Emily Dickinson and the Secret of Earth’s Most Supernatural Flower

2023-08-24 00:00

Albert Camus on Writing and the Importance of Stubbornness in Creative Work

2023-08-22 15:20

Spell Against Indifference

2023-08-20 16:33

Into the Blue Beyond: William Beebe’s Dazzling Account of Becoming the First Human Being to See the Deep Ocean

2023-08-19 16:02

Uses of the Erotic: Audre Lorde on the Relationship Between Eros, Creativity, and Power

2023-08-18 15:36

Terror, Tenderness, and the Paradoxes of Human Nature: How a Marmoset Saved Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Lives from the Nazis

2023-08-17 00:28

Doris: A Watercolor Serenade to the Courage of Authenticity and the Art of Connection

2023-08-15 16:13

Bertrand Russell on the Salve for Our Modern Helplessness and Overwhelm

2023-08-10 14:34

Little Black Hole: A Tender Cosmic Fable About How to Live with Loss

2023-08-08 19:31

What Rises from the Ruins: Katherine Anne Porter on the Power of the Artist and the Function of Art in Human Life

2023-08-06 17:45

The Human Scale: Oliver Sacks on How to Save Humanity from Itself

2023-08-05 16:18

The Porcupine Dilemma: Schopenhauer’s Parable about Negotiating the Optimal Distance in Love

2023-08-03 20:31

Excellent Advice for Living: Kevin Kelly’s Life-Tested Wisdom He Wished He Knew Earlier

2023-07-29 17:49

The Ant, the Grasshopper, and the Antidote to the Cult of More: A Lovely Vintage Illustrated Poem About the Meaning and Measure of Enough

2023-07-29 17:32

Simone Weil on Love and Its Counterfeit

2023-07-27 01:05

The Donkey and the Meaning of Eternity: Nobel-Winning Spanish Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez’s Love Letter to Life

2023-07-23 15:02

How to Say Goodbye: An Illustrated Field Guide to Accompanying a Loved One at the End of Life

2023-07-22 16:01

Make Yourself a Seer: The Teenage Arthur Rimbaud on How to Be a Poet and a Prophet of Possibility

2023-07-20 22:45

“Little Women” Author Louisa May Alcott on the Creative Rewards of Being Single

2023-07-18 15:08

The Wondrous Birds of the Himalayas and the Forgotten Victorian Woman Whose Illustrations Rewilded the Western Imagination

2023-07-15 16:41

Love’s Work: Philosopher Gillian Rose on the Value of Getting It Wrong

2023-07-13 15:43

Bunny & Tree: A Tender Wordless Parable of Friendship and the Improbable Saviors That Make Life Livable

2023-07-11 23:45

How to Be Animal: An Antidote to Our Self-Expatriation from Nature

2023-07-10 23:17

The Power of Being a Heretic: The Forgotten Visionary Jane Ellen Harrison on Critical Thinking, Emotional Imagination, and How to Rehumanize the World

2023-07-08 20:16

How to Be More Alive: Hermann Hesse on Wonder and the Proper Aim of Education

2023-07-06 16:57

How People Change: Psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis on the Essence of Freedom and the Two Elements of Self-Transcendence

2023-07-04 23:48

Look Up: The Illustrated Story of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, Who Laid the Groundwork for Measuring the Universe

2023-07-03 18:12

Fox and Bear: A Tender Modern Fable About Reversing the Anthropocene, Illustrated in Cut-Cardboard Dioramas

2023-07-01 17:09

Reason and Emotion: Scottish Philosopher John Macmurray on the Key to Wholeness and the Fundaments of a Fulfilling Life

2023-06-29 17:35

The Work of Happiness: May Sarton’s Stunning Poem About Being at Home in Yourself

2023-06-28 15:35

A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Music

2023-06-27 16:19

Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being

2023-06-25 14:29

An Antidote to the Anxiety About Imperfection: Parenting Advice from Mister Rogers

2023-06-22 20:51

Wonder-Sighting on Planet Earth: The Space Telescope Eye of the Scallop

2023-06-21 16:09

The Experience Machine: Cognitive Philosopher Andy Clark on the Power of Expectation and How the Mind Renders Reality

2023-06-20 17:56

Between Matter and Spirit: Psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis on the Substance of What We Are

2023-06-18 15:50

Everything Is Already There: Javier Marías on the Courage to Heed Your Intuitions

2023-06-16 18:04

A Victorian Visionary’s Prescient Case for Animal Rights and Vegetarianism

2023-06-15 17:59

Kierkegaard on the Value of Despair

2023-06-10 15:40

The Universe and the Soul: Richard Jefferies on Nature as Prayer for Presence

2023-06-08 19:19

A Taste of How It Feels to Be Free: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Karen Horney on Our Inner Conflicts, the Psychology of Hopelessness, and the Path to Wholeness

2023-06-07 15:12

The Poetry of Reality: Robert Louis Stevenson on What Makes Life Worth Living

2023-06-05 21:15

The Art of Human Connection: Pioneering Psychologist and Philosopher William James on the Most Important Attitude for Relationships

2023-06-02 23:53

William James on the Most Vital Understanding for Successful Relationships

2023-06-02 23:53

Enchantment and the Courage of Joy: René Magritte on the Antidote to the Banality of Pessimism

2023-05-31 20:16

How the Octopus Came to Earth: Stunning 19th-Century French Chromolithographs of Cephalopods

2023-05-30 19:57

Some Thoughts about the Ocean and the Universe

2023-05-27 17:49

Wholeness and the Implicate Order: Physicist David Bohm on Bridging Consciousness and Reality

2023-05-25 15:16

The Challenge of Closeness: Alain de Botton on Love, Vulnerability, and the Paradox of Avoidance

2023-05-22 18:10

Dead Stars: Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s Stunning Love Poem to Life

2023-05-20 13:44

May Sarton on the Art of Living Alone

2023-05-17 21:12

Sundogs and the Sacred Geometry of Wonder: The Science of the Atmospheric Phenomenon That Inspired Hilma af Klint

2023-05-17 12:14

What We Look for When We Are Looking: John Steinbeck on Wonder and the Relational Nature of the Universe

2023-05-16 22:27

Love and Fear: A Stunning 17th-Century Poem About How to Live with the Transcendent Terror of Love

2023-05-15 17:15

What It Takes to Grow: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Karen Horney on the Key to Self-Realization

2023-05-14 16:01

The Paradox of Free Will

2023-05-13 15:17

Stunning Century-Old Illustrations of Tibetan Fairy Tales from the Artist Who Created Bambi

2023-05-11 18:30

How We Render Reality: Attention as an Instrument of Love

2023-05-10 16:41

The Last Wonder: D.H. Lawrence on Death and the Best Lifelong Preparation for It

2023-05-09 15:53

Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” Brought to Life in a Spanish Flashmob of 100 Musicians

2023-05-07 17:23

The Heart of Matter: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on Bridging the Scientific and the Sacred

2023-05-06 15:50

The Double Flame: Octavio Paz on Love

2023-05-04 17:11

Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and Our Search for Meaning: Oliver Sacks on ChatGPT, 30 Years Before ChatGPT

2023-05-02 17:23

Loving the Tree of Life: Annie Dillard on How to Bear Your Mortality

2023-04-30 14:58

Practical Mysticism: Evelyn Underhill’s Stunning Century-Old Manifesto for Secular Transcendence and Seeing the Heart of Reality

2023-04-28 18:11

Henry James on Losing a Mother

2023-04-26 20:00

Heroism and the Human Search for Meaning: Ernest Becker on the Hidden Root of Our Existential Longing

2023-04-25 20:44

Let Your Heart Be Broken

2023-04-23 18:36

How to Grow Up: Nick Cave’s Life-Advice to a 13-Year-Old

2023-04-20 16:48

May Sarton on Writing, Gardening, and the Importance of Patience Over Will in Creative Work

2023-04-19 03:47

The Afterlives of the Soul: Sister Nivedita on Love and Death

2023-04-16 20:54

Magnolias and the Meaning of Life: Science, Poetry, Existentialism

2023-04-13 17:33

The Art of Lying Fallow: Psychoanalyst Masud Khan on the Existential Salve for the Age of Cultish Productivity and Compulsive Distraction

2023-04-11 16:02

How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty

2023-04-09 16:33

Jealousy and Its Antidote: Pioneering Psychiatrist Leslie Farber on the Tangled Psychology of Our Most Destructive Emotion

2023-04-07 16:00

The Broadest Portal to Joy

2023-04-06 16:27

Youth and Age: Kahlil Gibran on the Art of Becoming

2023-04-04 16:29

The Remedy for Creative Block and Existential Stuckness

2023-03-31 19:11

Coleridge on the Paradox of Friendship and Romantic Love

2023-03-28 17:54

May Sarton on Grieving a Pet

2023-03-27 17:29

Lichens and the Meaning of Life

2023-03-25 17:04

An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of the Art of Connection

2023-03-23 18:17

From Cells to Souls: The Poetic Science of How the Brain Became

2023-03-21 17:44

O Sweet Spontaneous: E.E. Cummings’s Love-Poem to Earth and the Glory of Spring

2023-03-20 15:28

The Value of Being Wrong: Lewis Thomas on Generative Mistakes

2023-03-18 17:11

May Sarton on How to Cultivate Your Talent

2023-03-17 15:27

Stunning 200-Year-Old French Illustrations of Exotic, Endangered, and Extinct Birds

2023-03-17 00:19

The Transcendent Brain: The Poetic Physicist Alan Lightman on Spirituality for the Science-Spirited

2023-03-14 20:36

The Life of Trees: A Poem

2023-03-14 01:13

2,000 Years of Kindness

2023-03-12 16:22

How to Bear Your Loneliness: Grounding Wisdom from the Great Buddhist Teacher Pema Chödrön

2023-03-11 12:00

Nikolai Vavilov and the Living Library of Resilience: The Story of the World’s First Seed Bank and the Tragic Hero of Science Who Set Out to End Humanity’s Suffering

2023-03-08 17:49

The Stunning Mystical Paintings of the 16th-Century Portuguese Artist Francisco de Holanda

2023-03-08 15:12

Radical Compassion and the Seeds of Change: The Dalai Lama’s Ethical and Ecological Philosophy for the Next Generation, Illustrated

2023-03-07 02:40

Radical Compassion and the Seeds of Change: The Dalai Lama’s Illustrated Ecological Philosophy for the Next Generation

2023-03-07 02:40

The Dalai Lama’s Ethical and Ecological Philosophy for the Next Generation, Illustrated

2023-03-07 02:40

How to Grow Re-enchanted with the World: A Salve for the Sense of Existential Meaninglessness and Burnout

2023-03-04 18:43

Trust, Betrayal, and the Nexus of Mathematics and Morality: The Prisoner’s Dilemma Animated

2023-03-04 17:28

God, Human, Animal, Machine: Consciousness and Our Search for Meaning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

2023-03-02 16:58

Thoreau on Living Through Loss

2023-03-01 19:53

How to Survive Hopelessness

2023-02-28 14:44

Einstein on Free Will and the Power of the Imagination

2023-02-26 16:22

Dostoyevsky on Animal Rights and the Deepest Meaning of Human Love

2023-02-25 14:24

The Balancing Monsters of Love: Leonard Cohen on What Makes a Saint

2023-02-24 02:23

Bear: A Soulful Illustrated Meditation on Life with and Liberation from Depression

2023-02-23 03:26

Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness

2023-02-21 12:53

The Poetry of Science: A Victorian Portal to Wonder

2023-02-20 18:13

Saying the Ineffable: Poetry and the Language of Silence

2023-02-18 19:28

User-Friendly Self-Deception: Philosopher Amélie Rorty on the Value of Our Delusions and the Antidote to the Self-Defeating Ones

2023-02-15 19:13

If You Fail at Love

2023-02-15 15:00

Meditation in Sunlight: May Sarton’s Stunning Poem About the Relationship Between Presence, Solitude, and Love

2023-02-12 18:00

The Creative Accident: Visionary Ceramicist Edith Heath on Serendipity, the Antidote to Obsolescence, and the Five Pillars of Timelessness

2023-02-11 16:18

Nick Cave on the Art of Growing Older

2023-02-07 23:58

Dinosaurs of the Sky: Consummate 19th-Century Scottish Natural History Illustrations of Birds

2023-02-07 13:10

Seneca on Science, Nature, and the Key to a Fulfilled Human Destiny

2023-02-06 18:11

In Search of the Sacred: Pico Iyer on Our Models of Paradise

2023-02-05 02:07

The Unphotographabe: Walt Whitman on Birds Migrating at Midnight

2023-02-04 21:24

The Ants, the Bees, and the Blind Spots of the Human Mind: How Entomologist Charles Henry Turner Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Evolution of Intelligence and Emotion

2023-02-03 01:45

The Remarkable Story of the Dawn Redwood: How a Living Fossil Brought Humanity Together in the Middle of a World War

2023-02-01 00:16

The Two Objects of the Good Life: Mary Shelley’s Father on the Relationship Between Personal Happiness, Imagination, and Social Harmony

2023-01-31 00:32

Audre Lorde on What to Do When Difference Ruptures Society

2023-01-29 17:33

The Vital Difference Between Work and Labor: Lewis Hyde on Sustaining the Creative Spirit

2023-01-27 18:47

Ways of Being: Rethinking Intelligence

2023-01-26 17:21

What the Heart Keeps When the Mind Goes: May Sarton on Loving a Loved One Through Dementia

2023-01-25 14:29

Turning Loss and Loneliness into Wonder: How the Victorian Visionary Marianne North Revolutionized Art and Science with Her Botanical Paintings

2023-01-23 16:45

Rootedness and Reclaiming God

2023-01-22 18:15

Against the Cult of Originality: Emerson on the True Nature of Genius

2023-01-21 18:46

The Unphotographable: The Moon, the Tide, and the Living Shore

2023-01-21 09:18

The Footpath to Yourself: Robert Macfarlane on Landscape as a Lens on Inner Life

2023-01-19 17:41

How to Be with Each Other’s Suffering: Elie Wiesel on the Antidote to Our Paralysis in the Face of World-Overwhelm

2023-01-16 16:00

The Symphony of Belonging: Alfred Kazin on Music as Spiritual Homecoming

2023-01-15 16:29

How to Be Less Harsh with Yourself (and Others): Ram Dass on the Spiritual Lessons of Trees

2023-01-13 22:24

A Responsibility to Wonder: Pioneering Neuroscientist Charles Scott Sherrington on the Spirituality of Nature

2023-01-12 22:58

Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower: Rilke’s Timeless Spell for Living Through Difficult Times

2023-01-11 16:25

On Mothers

2023-01-10 16:34

The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother

2023-01-10 16:34

Maya Angelou on Writing and Our Responsibility to Our Creative Gifts

2023-01-08 00:32

The Neurophysiology of Enchantment: How Music Casts Its Spell on Us

2023-01-07 02:03

How Our Story Ends (and How to Begin Rewriting It): Richard Powers on Planetary Death and Life as Our Force of Resistance

2023-01-06 01:33

Seneca on Creativity: Lessons from the Bees

2023-01-04 15:00

The Tragic Miracle of Consciousness: John Steinbeck on the True Meaning and Purpose of Hope

2023-01-03 18:12

May Sarton on How to Live with Tenderness in a Harsh World

2023-01-01 05:09

Love, Music, Solitude, and How to Be More Alive: The Best of The Marginalian 2022

2022-12-29 21:16

Nick Cave on the Antidote to Our Existential Helplessness

2022-12-29 10:00

The Seamstress Who Solved the Ancient Mystery of the Argonaut, Pioneered the Aquarium, and Laid the Groundwork for the Study of Octopus Intelligence

2022-12-26 23:37

To a Wreath of Snow: Patti Smith Reads Emily Brontë

2022-12-26 01:38

Music and the Price of What We Cherish: Margaret Atwood on the Bonds and Obligations of Creative Gifts

2022-12-23 16:15

Herbie Hancock’s Antidote to Burnout

2022-12-22 14:37

Symbiosis and the Unself: Evolutionary Biologist Lynn Margulis on How Interbeing Shapes Life on Earth

2022-12-21 15:58

Ram Dass on Love

2022-12-20 15:50

In Praise of Walking: A Poetic Manifesto for Our Simplest Instrument of Discovery, Transformation, and Transcendence

2022-12-18 22:44

The Labyrinth of Consciousness: Walter Benjamin on Dreams and the Underworld of the Mind

2022-12-18 15:15

Virginia Woolf on Self-Knowledge and the Blind Spots of Sympathy

2022-12-17 16:42

The Unphotographable: Henry Williamson on the Transcendence of the Winter Sky After a Blizzard

2022-12-17 16:22

How to Savor Winter: A Century-Old Poetic Recipe for Bliss in the Bleakest Season

2022-12-16 16:17

Victorian Instagram: The 19th Century’s Most Adorable Natural History Illustrations of Monkeys, Lemurs, and Other Tree-Dwelling Mammals

2022-12-14 16:26

What Is Time: 100 Years of Ravishing Reflections, from Borges to Nina Simone

2022-12-13 20:21

What Is Time: 200 Years of Ravishing Reflections, from Borges to Nina Simone

2022-12-13 20:21

“Goodnight Moon” Author Margaret Wise Brown’s Radical and Rapturous Life, Illustrated

2022-12-13 02:13

What America Means: Poet Muriel Rukeyser on the Source of Character and Creativity

2022-12-12 00:19

Nature and Transcendence: Emerson on How We Become Our Most Authentic Selves

2022-12-11 02:15

Favorite Books of 2022

2022-12-10 00:52

The Boltzmann Brain Paradox: An Animated Thought Experiment About the Hallucination of Reality

2022-12-06 01:40

Montaigne on How to Succeed at Solitude and His Antidote to the Three Great Fears That Haunt Self-Knowledge

2022-12-05 17:04

Trees, Rivers, and the Exquisite Interdependence of Life: Artist Meredith Nemirov’s Consummate Map Paintings

2022-12-04 16:41

Affirmation in Solitude: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Poetry of Penguins

2022-12-03 19:23

How the Psychedelic Amanita Muscaria Mushroom May Have Inspired the Santa Legend of Lapland

2022-12-02 18:38

The Art of Divination: D.H. Lawrence on the Power of Pure Attention

2022-12-01 17:53

The Poetry of Science and Wonder as an Antidote to Self-Destruction: Rachel Carson’s Magnificent 1952 National Book Award Acceptance Speech

2022-12-01 01:47

Farmhouse: Sophie Blackall’s Poetic Illustrated Tribute to Time and Tenderness

2022-11-29 23:41

The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self: How a Circle of Friends and Lovers United Nature and Human Nature

2022-11-28 23:00

Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny by Papa: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Almost Unbearably Sweet Account of Sole-Parenting His Small Son

2022-11-26 20:08

The Choreography of Everyday Life: A Leaping Antidote to Our Modern Loneliness

2022-11-25 04:12

David Bowie on Creativity and His Advice to Artists

2022-11-25 04:11

The Art of Receiving: John Steinbeck on the True Meaning of Gratitude

2022-11-21 17:29

Storytelling and the Art of Tenderness: Olga Tokarczuk’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

2022-11-21 15:16

How the Eel Almost Became America’s Thanksgiving Food

2022-11-20 16:59

The Poetic Science of the Aurora Borealis

2022-11-19 21:23

What You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know About the Aurora Borealis: How the Northern Lights Work and How We Solved the Science of the Cosmic Spectacle

2022-11-19 21:23