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Maria Popova

@brainpicker

Reader. Writer. Creator of The Marginalian (long ago named Brain Pickings). Author of #Figuring. Lover of trees. Petter of moss. Rider of a cobalt blue bicycle.

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The Blue Hour – a stunning illustrated celebration of nature's rarest color themarginalian.org/2021/01/14/the…

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What makes a compassionate world – Sophie de Grouchy's visionary 18th-century appeal to parents and teachers, so timely today (plus the story of this remarkable woman epochs ahead of her time) themarginalian.org/2024/01/18/sop…

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'Who knows
doesn’t talk.
Who talks
doesn’t know.'

Ursula K. Le Guin's magnificent feminist translation of the Tao Te Ching themarginalian.org/2016/10/21/lao…

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I have loved the crochet coral reef project since I first saw it in 2009. @MargaretWerth is a rare polymath with a poetic soul. Thrilled to see it thriving all these years later: nytimes.com/2024/01/15/sci…

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That rare gift of being alone together, with the right person – a lovely Dutch illustrated celebration of the art of shared solitude themarginalian.org/2023/11/26/bea…

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On A.A. Milne's birthday, the illustrated story of the real-life baby bear who inspired his Winnie-the-Pooh themarginalian.org/2016/03/02/fin…

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This is one of the best things I have ever read: Ursula K. Le Guin on change, menopause as rebirth, and the civilizational value of elders themarginalian.org/2023/09/30/urs…

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A. A. Milne, born on this day in 1882, on happiness and how his Winnie-the-Pooh was born themarginalian.org/2012/01/18/a-a…

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Mary Oliver, who died 5 years ago today, on how books saved her life and what the greatest antidote to sorrow is themarginalian.org/2016/11/02/mar…

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“All you have is what you are, and what you give.”

Ursula K. Le Guin on suffering and getting to the other side of pain themarginalian.org/2018/11/29/urs…

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'Here lies the paradox of solitude. Look long and hard enough at yourself in isolation and suddenly you will see the rest of humanity staring back.'

Wonderful read themarginalian.org/2021/10/16/the…

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'Grief is a force of energy that cannot be controlled or predicted… Grief does not obey your plans, or your wishes. Grief will do whatever it wants to you… In that regard, Grief has a lot in common with Love.'

For anyone who has lost a loved one: themarginalian.org/2018/10/17/eli…

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“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”

Mary Oliver, who left us 5 years ago today, on creativity themarginalian.org/2016/10/12/mar…

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“Do you need a prod?
Do you need a little darkness to get you going?”

Mary Oliver, who died 5 years ago today, on the measure of a life well lived themarginalian.org/2015/02/09/mar…

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Trees at Night – a stunning century-old poem by the teenage Harlem Renaissance poet Helene Johnson, read by Rebecca Solnit with a lovely reflection on deep time themarginalian.org/2022/05/20/tre…

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“Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.”

Remembering Mary Oliver, who left us 5 years ago today, with her advice on writing themarginalian.org/2019/01/14/mar…

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“Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.”

Some beautiful and timely thoughts on the power of storytelling from Susan Sontag, who would have been 91 today themarginalian.org/2013/10/22/sus…

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As half the planet shivers with the depths of winter, longing for the return of brightness and bud, here is a splendid ode to spring from e.e. cummings to give us something to look forward to themarginalian.org/2023/03/20/o-s…

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Susan Sontag, born on this day in 1933, on love, sex, and the world between themarginalian.org/2014/01/14/lov…

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