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This is excellent: Ocean Vuong on anger themarginalian.org/2025/05/07/oce…

A century ago, one uncommonly insightful woman undertook a 7-year experiment in the art of being fully alive. Here is what she learned: mailchi.mp/themarginalian…

Today's #birddivination, from the cardinal. See more at almanacofbirds.org

Ursula K. Le Guin on power, freedom, and how storytelling expands our scope of the possible themarginalian.org/2016/05/06/urs…

"You may have to break your heart, but it isn’t nothing to know even one moment alive." Let this stunning Ellen Bass poem jolt you alive: themarginalian.org/2025/03/14/any…

A Life Worth Living – Nobel laureate Albert Camus, who died in a car crash with an unused train ticket to the same destination in his pocket, on our search for meaning and happiness as a moral obligation themarginalian.org/2014/09/22/a-l…

Hermann Hesse on breaking the trance of busyness, how the "little joys" magnify life, and the most important habit for living with presence themarginalian.org/2017/03/06/her…

200 years of great minds on the creative and spiritual rewards of boredom (that species of inner stillness and mental ablution so endangered in our) themarginalian.org/2015/03/16/bor…

Kahlil Gibran on the art of becoming yourself across the sweep of life themarginalian.org/2023/04/04/you…

Mary Oliver on staying alive themarginalian.org/2016/11/02/mar…

"The true and durable path into and through experience involves being true ... to your own solitude, true to your own secret knowledge." Nobel-winning poet Seamus Heaney's magnificent advice on life themarginalian.org/2016/01/19/sea…

“To not have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.” Charles Bukowski's extraordinary letter of gratitude to the man who helped him quit his day job at the post office to become a poet themarginalian.org/2014/08/12/cha…

Walt Whitman on owning (truly owning) your own life themarginalian.org/2025/03/29/whi…

We forget that none of this had to exist — that we weren’t owed mountains and music by the universe. And maybe we have to forget — or we would be too stupefied with gratitude for every raindrop and every eyelash to get through the daily tasks punctuating the unbidden wonder of

Elizabeth Bishop on why everyone should experience at least one prolonged period of solitude in life themarginalian.org/2016/02/08/eli…

Wild Things creator Maurice Sendak's forgotten first children's book — really a work of philosophy about love, loneliness, and knowing what you really want (which is the hardest thing in life) themarginalian.org/2016/01/08/ken…

Alone together – an illustrated celebration of the art of shared solitude themarginalian.org/2023/11/26/bea…

A partnership larger than marriage – the stunning love letter of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, who emboldened him to become one of the century's greatest poets themarginalian.org/2017/01/20/kah…

Phillip Glass on art, science, and the most important quality of a visionary themarginalian.org/2023/11/10/phi…

That one mind can reach out from its lonely cave of bone and touch another, express its joys and sorrows to another — this is the great miracle of being alive together. The object of human communication is not the exchange of information but the exchange of understanding. If we