Tag: Marginalian

Bless consciousness, for making blue different to me than it is to you. I remember the moment a friend’s son ...

The only thing more dangerous than wanting to save another person — a dangerous desire too often mistaken for love ...

One of the paradoxes of being alive is that it is often through the extremes of sensation, through the shock ...

Nothing magnifies life — in the proper sense of the word, rooted in the Latin for “to make greater, to ...

It is good, I feel, to begin a new year, or a new day, with a little reservoir of gladness. ...

In every creative life, in every life of passion and purpose, there comes a time when the animating spark grows ...

By Maria Popova Hindsight is how we connect the dots that figure our lives. To look back on even a ...

“A persona is a portal we are not aware of passing through,” my beloved editor Dan Frank wrote in an ...

Because life is a cosmos of connection, because to be alive is to be in relationship with the world, because ...

By Maria Popova Because I read for the same reason I write — to fathom my life and deepen my ...