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"Great love is never justified. It’s like the little tree that springs up in some inexplicable fashion on the side of a cliff: where are its roots, what does it feed on, what miracle produces those green leaves?" Polish poet and Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska on love:

"While we weaken friendships by expecting too little of them, we undermine romantic relationships by expecting too much of them." The other significant others – living and loving outside the confines of conventional friendship and compulsory coupledom themarginalian.org/2024/02/28/the…

"We can never go back... We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago... All awakening to love is spiritual awakening." bell hooks on love themarginalian.org/2023/11/03/bel…

If you are feeling a little deadened to life right now, a poem for you: themarginalian.org/2023/08/20/spe…

How to claim your life – D.H. Lawrence on the most important choice within themarginalian.org/2025/04/29/d-h…

“Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom.” Ursula K. Le Guin on the sacredness of public libraries themarginalian.org/2015/11/06/urs…

A bird divination for today from the ivory-billed woodpecker. Available as a print at bit.ly/woodpeckerdivi… and as part of the set of 100, along with the story behind them, at almanacofbirds.org

How to criticize with kindness – philosopher Daniel Dennett's simple, brilliant protocol for arguing intelligently in four steps themarginalian.org/2014/03/28/dan…

Oliver Sacks on the 3 essential elements of creativity themarginalian.org/2017/11/09/oli…

"To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that's its task." Dostoyevsky's stirring letter to his brother about the meaning of life, penned hours

Anna Dostoyevskaya on the secret to a happy marriage – life-tested wisdom from one of the truest loves behind some of the world's greatest fiction themarginalian.org/2016/02/15/ann…

Grackles bedazzle the tree outside my writing window with their iridescent plumage and their alien cries. And so a #birddivination in their honor. Find more divinations for uncertain days and the story behind them at almanacofbirds.org

"if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it." Bukowski on creativity: themarginalian.org/2012/10/19/so-…

“Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence…a way of being fully human.” Susan Sontag's magnificent letter to Borges themarginalian.org/2013/10/28/let…

"One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience... Storytelling is a tool for knowing who we are and what we want." A wonderful, wonderful conversation with Ursula K. Le Guin themarginalian.org/2018/01/30/urs…

What we look for when we are looking – John Steinbeck on wonder (passages from one of my favorite books of all time) themarginalian.org/2023/05/16/ste…

Why are we not better than we are – astonishing read on how poetry saves lives or, rather, what we do to save ourselves themarginalian.org/2022/08/14/jon…

Rilke on the relationship between love, sex, solitude, and creativity, in a gorgeous new translation by Buddhist scholar and ecological activist Joanna Macy, who turns 96 today themarginalian.org/2021/06/29/ril…

Today's #birddivination. See more and read about the story behind this strange labor at almanacofbirds.org

Albert Camus on how to live whole in a broken world themarginalian.org/2024/06/22/alb…