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Barry Lopez on the Cure for Our Existential Loneliness and the Three Tenets of a Full Life – The Marginalian
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Barry Lopez on the Cure for Our Existential Loneliness and the Three Tenets of a Full Life – The Marginalian
“Place and a mind may interpenetrate till the nature of both is altered,” the great Scottish mountaineer and poet Nan…
Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers – The Marginalian
3 weeks ago
Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers – The Marginalian
“The past only comes back when the present runs so smoothly that it is like the sliding surface of a…
A Brilliant Young Woman’s Forgotten Field Guide to the Art of Knowing What You Really Want – The Marginalian
3 weeks ago
A Brilliant Young Woman’s Forgotten Field Guide to the Art of Knowing What You Really Want – The Marginalian
“One must know what one wants to be,” the eighteenth-century French mathematician Émilie du Châtelet wrote in weighing the nature…
Weekend Favorites: 5 binge-worthy shows + what’s in your junk drawer?
3 weeks ago
Weekend Favorites: 5 binge-worthy shows + what’s in your junk drawer?
Weekend Favorites: 5 binge-worthy shows + what’s in your junk drawer? – Be More with Less
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A Wordless Love Letter to How Nature Always Wins – The Marginalian
3 weeks ago
A Wordless Love Letter to How Nature Always Wins – The Marginalian
Nested between two giant cedars in the remote old-growth forest where I live much of the year are the rusted…
Notes on the Resilience of Letting Go – The Marginalian
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Notes on the Resilience of Letting Go – The Marginalian
This essay and poem are part of the Universe in Verse book. Trees grant us some of the richest metaphors…
How to Be Reborn Each Day – The Marginalian
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How to Be Reborn Each Day – The Marginalian
In their strange cosmogony predating Copernicus by two millennia, the ancient Greek scientific sect of the Pythagoreans placed at the…
Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech – The Marginalian
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Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech – The Marginalian
Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872–February 2, 1970) endures as one of humanity’s most lucid and luminous minds — an oracle…
Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness – The Marginalian
3 weeks ago
Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness – The Marginalian
It starts with a low hum that adheres itself to the underbelly of the hours like another dimension. Gradually, surreptitiously,…
The Moving Letter James Baldwin Received from His Childhood Teacher at the Peak of His Fame and His Heartbreak – The Marginalian
3 weeks ago
The Moving Letter James Baldwin Received from His Childhood Teacher at the Peak of His Fame and His Heartbreak – The Marginalian
In early 1934, a twenty-four-year-old graduate student at Columbia Teachers College took an internship teaching drama and producing student plays…