If you want to befriend time — which is how you come to befriend life — turn to stone. Climb a mountain and listen to the conversation between eons encoded in each stripe of rock. Walk …

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Divinations of the First Light: A Cosmic Poem for the Vera Rubin Observatory – The Marginalian

At the end of her trailblazing life, having swung open the gate of the possible for women in science with her famous comet discovery, astronomer Maria Mitchell confided in one of her Vassar student…

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Anima: One Woman’s Search for Meaning in the Footsteps of Bulgarian Mountain Shepherds – The Marginalian

“All our lives we perform tasks while waiting for something to click into place. For somewhere to put our love.”

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Uncaging the Bird in the Mind: William Henry Hudson and the Gift of the Ruin of Your Best Laid Plans – The Marginalian

“The mind is its own place, and in it self can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n,” wrote Milton in Paradise Lost. Because the mind (which may in the end be a full-body phenomenon)…

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How to Be a Stone: Three Poems for Trusting Time – The Marginalian

Divinations of the First Light: A Cosmic Poem for the Vera Rubin Observatory – The Marginalian

Anima: One Woman’s Search for Meaning in the Footsteps of Bulgarian Mountain Shepherds – The Marginalian

Uncaging the Bird in the Mind: William Henry Hudson and the Gift of the Ruin of Your Best Laid Plans – The Marginalian

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