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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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12/21/2023
2 : 14
Favorite Children's Books of 2023 — tender reckonings with friendship, fear, love, solitude, black holes, time, and the interconnectedness of life
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12/20/2023
1 : 14
Annual Special: Favorite Books of 2023
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12/17/2023
11 : 14
The paradox of transformative experiences, poetic ecology and the biology of wonder, the sky and the soul
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12/9/2023
22 : 4
The light between us, the whyless wonder of the birds-of-paradise, Henry Miller on friendship and the relationship between creativity and community
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12/2/2023
22 : 4
How to apologize, philosopher Martha Nussbaum on the litmus test for love, and an illustrated celebration of the art of shared solitude
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