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The Marginalian

Marginalia on our search for meaning.

  • By Maria Popova
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly three posts per week
  • First post on

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Month starting Posts
Oct 2022 8
Nov 2022 22
Dec 2022 26
Jan 2023 22
Feb 2023 19
Mar 2023 21
Apr 2023 14
May 2023 19
Jun 2023 15
Jul 2023 16
Aug 2023 15
Sep 2023 16
Oct 2023 15
Nov 2023 17
Dec 2023 16
Jan 2024 13
Feb 2024 12
Mar 2024 11
Apr 2024 12
May 2024 14
Jun 2024 12
Jul 2024 11

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Most recent posts

An Almanac of Birds: Divinations for Uncertain Days
I have found that the surest way of seeing the wondrous in something ordinary, something previously underappreciated, is coming to love someone who loves it. As we enter each other’s worlds in love — whatever …
On , by Maria Popova, 2,702 words
Beyond Either/Or: Kierkegaard on the Passion for Possibility and the Key to Resetting Relationships
“Were I to wish for anything I would not wish for wealth and power, but for the passion of the possible, that eye which everywhere, ever young, ever burning, sees possibility.” Some of the most …
On , by Maria Popova, 977 words
Is Your Life a Fairy Tale, a Novel, or a Poem?
When reality fissures along the fault line of our expectations and the unwelcome happens — a death, an abandonment, a promise broken, a kindness withheld — we tend to cope in one of two ways: …
On , by Maria Popova, 712 words