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The More Loving One: The Science of Entropy and the Art of Alternative Endings

about 6 hours ago

“If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.”...

The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Outside the Confines of Conventional Friendship and Compulsory Coupledom

1 day ago

“While we weaken friendships by expecting too little of them, we undermine...

The Loveliness of Letting Go: An Illustrated Ode to Life’s Lasts

1 day ago

The great cruelty of life, and also its great mercy, is that...

The Resilience of Uncertainty: How to Hold the Universe in You

2 days ago

The great mercy of life is that we can change, we can...

How to Hold Death and Carry Life: A Zen Master Explains Existence to a Child and Outlines the Three Essential Principles of Zen Mind

3 days ago

“Zen practice … requires great faith, great courage, and great questioning.” If...

How to Be a Sea: Albert Camus on Learning to Die and Learning to Live

4 days ago

The summer I turned sixteen, I took a bus across Bulgaria —...

Wholeness and the Implicate Order: Physicist David Bohm on Bridging Consciousness and Reality

6 days ago

How to “include everything coherently and harmoniously in an overall whole that...

Nature’s Oldest Mandolin: The Poetic Science of How Cicadas Sing

6 days ago

“The use of music,” Richard Powers wrote, “is to remind us how...

The Ocean and the Meaning of Life

7 days ago

“Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense...

How to Read the Signal of Your Life

7 days ago

Sitting atop a Spanish mesa one sweltering August night, watching the Perseid...

Constellating Wonder: Celebrating 20 Years of The Marginalian (October 23, 2026)

8 days ago

At the dawn of my twenties, lonely, destitute, and disoriented by the...

How Love Comes to You

8 days ago

We spend our days making plans, making promises, making predictions about the...