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If your day could use a breath of wonder, here is the majesty and mystery of birds-of-paradise themarginalian.org/2023/12/0…
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A #birddivination for difficult times from the dear stork. As always, find it as a solo print and part of the deck of 100, along with the story and process behind them, at almanacofbirds.org
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Working out, working in – applying the 6 principles of athletic training to creative work themarginalian.org/2023/12/1…
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Simone de Beauvoir on how chance and choice converge to make us who we are themarginalian.org/2026/06/1…
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What books give us – Hermann Hesse on reading and the heart of wisdom themarginalian.org/2023/12/2…
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Virginia Woolf on what makes love last themarginalian.org/2016/05/1…
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How to live fully – the samurai guide to dying every day themarginalian.org/2026/06/1…
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Alone together – an illustrated celebration of the art (so difficult, so delicious) of shared solitude themarginalian.org/2023/11/2…
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"Life is so beautiful as long as I am creating it! So painful when it is a given that must be endured. Live, act, be wholeheartedly!"
Teenage Simone de Beauvoir's resolutions for a life worth living themarginalian.org/2025/02/1…
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Meet the forgotten French seamstress turned scientist who solved the ancient mystery of the argonaut, pioneered the aquarium, and laid the foundation for the study of octopus consciousness themarginalian.org/2026/06/1…
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"Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning."
Superb read on beginnings (which can begin anytime) themarginalian.org/2023/12/3…
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Tolkien on fairy tales, language, the psychology of fantasy, and why there is no such thing as writing "for children" themarginalian.org/2026/06/0…
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G.K. Chesterton died 90 years ago today and left us his gorgeous meditation on the meaning of life themarginalian.org/2022/06/1…
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What it's like to be an owl themarginalian.org/2023/12/2…
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The great Portuguese poet and philosopher Fernando Pessoa, born on this day in 1888, on how to be a good explorer in the lifelong expedition to yourself themarginalian.org/2025/10/1…
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Nick Cave on the two pillars of the meaningful life themarginalian.org/2026/06/1…
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"Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
The story behind one of the greatest poems ever written and a rare recording of the poet himself reading it themarginalian.org/2026/06/1…
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"We can change, evolve, and transform our own conditioning. We can choose to move like water rather than be molded like clay."
This: themarginalian.org/2024/01/2…
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War, peace, and our possible futures – George Saunders on storytelling the world's fate and the antidote to media manipulation themarginalian.org/2024/01/2…
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