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4/13/2024
22 : 4

The conciliation of our inner conflicts, a dictionary of invented words for what we feel but cannot name, an illustrated celebration of animal homes

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4/7/2024
2 : 4

William James on love, Marie Howe's stunning hymn of humanity, Nick Cave reads an animated poem about black holes, eternity, and how to bear our lives

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3/30/2024
22 : 4

An ecology of intimacies, Carl Jung's legacy and the countercultural courage to reclaim the deeply human in a posthuman age

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3/30/2024
20 : 14

The Universe in Verse 2024: Totality (Free Livestream April 7)

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3/23/2024
22 : 4

Love anyway

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3/16/2024
22 : 4

George Saunders on how to live an unregretting life, Hannah Arendt and the art of beginning afresh, Rachel Carson's lost ode to the science of the sky

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3/9/2024
22 : 24

Middle age and our search for meaning, Oliver Sacks on the secret life of chocolate, moonlight and the magic of the unnecessary

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3/2/2024
22 : 4

The other significant others, how to live with remorse and wrest from it defiant joy in living, Alice and the paradox of nature writing

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2/24/2024
22 : 4

How emotions are made, Hermann Hesse on discovering the soul beneath the self and the key to finding peace, the Moomins on control and surrender

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2/19/2024
1 : 43

When relationships change, Nick Cave on the two pillars of a meaningful life, and a poem

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2/10/2024
22 : 14

Thich Nhat Hanh on true love and the 5 rivers of self-knowledge, a neurobiologist on the art of allowing change, Loren Eiseley on the miraculous

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2/3/2024
22 : 4

Henry Miller on the antidote to despair, the enchanting science of cloud chambers and cosmic rays, philosopher Jacob Needleman on time and the soul

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1/27/2024
22 : 4

George Saunders on storytelling our possible future, Terry Tempest Williams on the paradox of transformation and how to live with uncertainty, "Yes."

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1/20/2024
22 : 4

What it's like to be an owl, sentimentality and being mortal, what makes a compassionate world

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1/14/2024
11 : 14

Hermann Hesse on the two souls within us, blue glass, Virginia Woolf on illness as a portal to self-understanding

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1/13/2024
12 : 14

Announcing The Universe in Verse 2024: Totality

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1/7/2024
11 : 14

Love and mystery, how groups of birds got their names ("a murder of crows," "a parliament of owls"....), what makes life alive

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12/31/2023
12 : 14

A Spell Against Stagnation: John O'Donohue on Beginnings

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12/29/2023
11 : 14

The Best of The Marginalian 2023, in One Place

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12/24/2023
11 : 4

The Truelove, the power of a thin skin, applying the 6 principles of athletic training to writing and creative work

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