What it’s like to be an owl — the strange and wondrous science of seeing with sound themarginalian.org/2023/12/24/owl…

Nobel laureate Albert Camus on writing and the importance of stubbornness in creative work themarginalian.org/2023/08/22/alb…

Albert Schweitzer died on this day in 1965, having won the Nobel Peace Prize for his ethical-ecological philosophy of “Reverence for Life.” Unbeknownst to most, he also rescued Bach from academic obscurity and popularized his music in the modern world themarginalian.org/2021/08/21/cle…

Walking through her garden one day, Virginia Woolf had an exquisite epiphany about creativity and the meaning of life: mailchi.mp/themarginalian…

Emily Dickinson's passionate letters to the love of her life, who inspired most of her poems and who pinned that final flower to her chest in the casket themarginalian.org/2018/12/10/emi…

Necessary Losses – profound and deeply assuring read on the life-shaping art of letting go themarginalian.org/2023/11/21/nec…

Virginia Woolf on what makes love last themarginalian.org/2016/05/11/vir…

"Every thought that has ever passed through your brain was made possible by plants." Fascinating read on the new science of plant intelligence and the mystery of what makes a mind themarginalian.org/2024/05/24/the…

Parents, be they good or terrible, shape our lives. And then they die. Here is some absolutely soul-stilling advice on how to move through that discomposing experience: themarginalian.org/2021/11/11/whe…

"Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real." One of the finest things ever written about love (and its relationship to the creative life) themarginalian.org/2022/01/08/iri…

"The more you study delight, the more delight there is to study... I felt my life to be more full of delight. Not without sorrow or fear or pain or loss. But more full of delight." Poet and gardener Ross Gay on delight as a force of resistance themarginalian.org/2019/12/01/ros…

What a joy to converse with one of my oldest friends Natascha McElhone about some of the oldest questions haunting humanity (how to bear our mortality, self vs. soul, existential yearning as a fulcrum of creativity) and their dialogue with our digital lives whereshallwemeet.xyz/2372295/156057…

From Neruda, looking back on his childhood, one of the greatest definitions of the creative impulse themarginalian.org/2014/10/30/pab…

"Very few people ever really are alive and those that are never die; no matter if they are gone. No one you love is ever dead." Hemingway's extraordinary letter to a couple who lost their son, crowned with his only overt reflection on the meaning of life themarginalian.org/2024/05/21/hem…

“Don’t cry, it’s only music,” someone’s voice is saying. “No one you love is dying.” Joy as a force of resistance and a halo of loss, with a Nick Cave song and a Lisel Mueller poem (read by Nick Cave) themarginalian.org/2024/09/05/joy/

Akira Kurosawa died on this day in 1998 and left us, besides some of the greatest cinema of all time, the term for one of the most fascinating psychological fault lines of memory themarginalian.org/2021/06/29/ras…

The fascinating science of how emotions are made themarginalian.org/2024/02/23/how…

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself... You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts…” Kahlil Gibran's timeless advice on parenting themarginalian.org/2019/09/09/on-…

Emily Dickinson's herbarium – a forgotten masterpiece at the intersection of poetry and science themarginalian.org/2017/05/23/emi…

"If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving, and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves" Neruda's stunning ode to silence: themarginalian.org/2015/05/28/kee…