Maria Popova

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Reader. Writer. Creator of The Marginalian (long ago named Brain Pickings). Lover of trees. Petter of moss. Rider of a cobalt blue bicycle with a golden bell.
The Marginalianhttps://themarginalian.org

“Crisis… is an attempt to dislodge us from a toxic status quo and constitutes an insistent call to rebuild our lives on a more authentic and sincere basis.”

Feeling like you're headed for a breakdown? It might be a good thing:
https://mailchi.mp/themarginalian/breakdown

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“Crisis… is an attempt to dislodge us from a toxic status quo and constitutes an insistent call to rebuild our lives on a more authentic and sincere basis.”

On the importance of breakdowns https://mailchi.mp/themarginalian/breakdown

This week's highlightable delights Let your heart be broken, how to see reality unblinded, Henry James on losing a parent: https://mailchi.mp/themarginalian/heartbreak-transcendence
This week's highlightable delights Let your heart be broken, a stunning century-old field guide to secular transcendence and seeing the heart of reality, Henry James on losing a mother: https://mailchi.mp/themarginalian/heartbreak-transcendence
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This week's highlightable delights: Nick Cave's advice on life, May Sarton on writing and gardening, Thoreau on living through loss https://mailchi.mp/themarginalian/nick-cave-may-sarton-thoreau
This week's highlightable delights: Nick Cave's advice on life, May Sarton on writing and gardening, Thoreau on living through loss https://mailchi.mp/themarginalian/nick-cave-may-sarton-thoreau
A transcendent opening of #TED2023: Song of the Ambassadors — a neuroscience-based AI opera.
This week's highlightable delights: How to love the world more: George Saunders on the courage of uncertainty; magnolias and the meaning of life; the art of lying fallow https://mailchi.mp/themarginalian/magnolias-uncertainty-fallow
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This week's highlightable delights: How to love the world more: George Saunders on the courage of uncertainty; magnolias and the meaning of life; the art of lying fallow https://mailchi.mp/themarginalian/magnolias-uncertainty-fallow
Emmy Noether died on this day in 1935, having revolutionized mathematics. Her remarkable story and her far-reaching legacy, with an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem, animated https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/03/25/dirge-without-music-emmy-noether/
Dirge Without Music: Emmy Noether, Symmetry, and the Conservation of Energy (Amanda Palmer Reads Edna St. Vincent Millay, Animated by Sophie Blackall)

“Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you. Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.”

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