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How You Relate to Anything Is How You Relate to Everything: Reclaiming the Spirit of the Christmas Tree – The Marginalian
Because life is a cosmos of connection, because to be alive is to be in relationship with the world, because (in the immortal words of John Muir) “when we try to pick out anything by itself, …
Something in You Hungers for Clarity: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Writing and the Power of Words to Remake the World – The Marginalian
“Words have more power than any one can guess; it is by words that the world’s great fight, now in these civilized times, is carried on,” Mary Shelley wrote in the middle of the Napoleonic Wars tha…
How to Love Yourself and How to Love Another: A Playful and Poignant Vintage Fable about Cherishing the Particular – The Marginalian
The great problem of consciousness is that all it knows is itself, and only dimly. We can override this elemental self-reference only with constant vigilance, reminding ourselves again and again as…
How to Live a Miraculous Life: Brian Doyle on Love, Humility, and the Quiet Grace of the Possible – The Marginalian
Suppose we agree that we are here to love anyway — to love even though the work is almost unbearably difficult, even though we know that everything alive is dying, that everything beautiful i…
There’s a Ghost in the Garden: A Subtle and Soulful Illustrated Fable about Memory and Mystery – The Marginalian
One of the things no one tells us as we grow up is that we will be living in a world rife with ghosts — all of our disappointed hopes and our outgrown dreams, all the abandoned novels and unp…
The Dictionary Story: A Love Letter to Language Tucked Into a Delightful Fable about the Difficult Question of How to Be Yourself – The Marginalian
“Words belong to each other,” Virginia Woolf rasped in the only surviving recording of her voice — a love letter to language as an instrument of thought and a medium of being. …
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside: Doris Lessing on the Antidote to Self-Righteousness and Our Best Hope for Humanity – The Marginalian
This is the history of the world: revolutionaries turning into tyrants, leaders who claim to stand with the masses turning the individuals within them on each other, stirring certainties and self-r…
A Republic of the Sensitive: E.M. Forster on the Personal and Political Power of Empaths and the Relationship Between Creativity and Democracy – The Marginalian
“I believe in… an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret u…
Everything Is Happening All the Time: Legendary Physicist John Archibald Wheeler on Death and the Life-Force – The Marginalian
“To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier,” Walt Whitman writes in the prime of life. “What happens when you get to the end of things?” four-year-old Johnny in Ohio a…
Kafka’s Creative Block and the Four Psychological Hindrances That Keep the Talented from Manifesting Their Talent – The Marginalian
The most paradoxical thing about creative work is that it is both a way in and a way out, that it plunges you into the depths of your being and at the same time takes you out of yourself. Writing i…
How to Triumph Over the Challenges of the Creative Life: Audubon’s Antidote to Despair – The Marginalian
We move through the world as surfaces shimmering with the visibilia of our accomplishments, the undertow of our suffering invisible to passers-by. The selective collective memory we call history co…
Winnicott on the Psychology of Democracy, the Most Dangerous Type of Person, and the Unconscious Root of Resisting Women Leaders – The Marginalian
In the late morning of the first day of August in 2023, exactly twenty summers after I arrived in Philadelphia as a lone teenager from a country thirteen centuries America’s senior, I experie…