Catching up on my emails and I came across this gem from Maria Popova's midweek Marginialian.

"Any idea of the normal currently in circulation is not an accurate map of what is customary for a human to be. We are — each one of us — far more compulsive, anxious, sexual, tender, mean, generous, playful, thoughtful, dazed, and at sea than we are encouraged to accept." - Alain de Botton

https://mailchi.mp/themarginalian/breakdown

#themarginalian @mariapopova

"You can expect good and bad luck, but good or bad judgment is your prerogative, as is good or bad management."

How to Survive Hopelessness – #TheMarginalian
@mariapopova

https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/02/28/sea-survival-dougal-robertson/

A wonderful discovery for seekers of wisdom and lovers of books: @mariapopova , the creator of the #TheMarginalian , posts on the Fediverse.

Check out the short story video by astronaut Ron McNair’s brother. It paints the picture of a man who could always see the way things are now will not always be the way they’ll be in the future. #TheMarginalian
https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/06/06/ronald-mcnair-storycorps-callings/

"one measure of maturity might be attaining an awareness that there can be no genuine devotion to fighting the forces that unworld the world without genuine devotion to the littlest manifestations of beauty that make this planet a world and this existence a life."

A wonderful piece by @mariapopova on #TheMarginalian about #Orwell #Roses + what makes life #Meaningful #BreadAndRoses

"It is easy to picture the #young of our own time...perched on their standing desks across the glassy campuses of Google and Facebook, drinking #corporate kombucha on tap while composing impassioned tweets against #PoliceBrutality, #homophobia, and #ClimateChange...a budding person in a world that feels too immense and immovable."

"MLK’s Lost Lectures on #Technology, #Alienation, #Activism, and the Three Ways of Resisting the System" – #TheMarginalian
https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/10/07/mlk-massey-lectures/

@mariapopova
I ❤️ #BrainPickings and missed it and was delighted to find you here! Maria, thank you for your ongoing labor of love. I always enjoy your writing, densely informative yet conversational, and I always learn some gem worth sharing with others. It’s like having a super smart friend introduce me to her even smarter friends. I’m now happily supporting #TheMarginalian like I once subscribed to Brain Pickings. Thanks again for feeding my mind with fact and inspiration.

themarginalian.org/the-universe-in-verse/

MARIA POPOVA, The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) is a fascinating one-woman show that's gone on every day for many years. She writes about beauty, science, grace, humanity, inhumanity... Creation and destruction. Every day. Always true. Always marvelous.

#TheMarginalian #BeautifulScience #Humanity #CreateANewWorld

#FridayBoost

@mariapopova

#TheMarginalian #MariaPopova #brilliant

“That, perhaps, is the true gift of genius — to bring something meaningful to life despite how meaningless one’s own life may seem; to give some warmth to the world despite what the world may have coldly taken away.” @mariapopova #themarginalian #charlesschulz #peanuts #trauma #loss #art

💭 #culture and #inspiration - some of my favorite accounts that have recently joined #Mastodon:

#MariaPopova @mariapopova
Now #TheMarginalian, ex #BrainPickings

#AmandaPalmer @amandapalmer
Yes, it's really her.

#OpenCulture @openculture
Reliably "The best free cultural & educational media on the web"

"The Unphotographable: Jack Kerouac’s Soaring Diary Entry About Self-Understanding and the Elemental Vastness of the Windblown World" by #MariaPopova #TheMarginalian

https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/12/jack-kerouac-windblown-world/

https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/05/10/john-muir-nature-writings/?mc_cid=87552da421&mc_eid=f915b8ab95

Some lovely writing at the end of a stressful day. Highly recommend The Marginalian.

#Nature #Writers #TheMarginalian

Reading "The Marginalian" weekly newsletter with my morning Sunday coffee. The main subject is an interview with Nick Cave. He is talking about the power of music to take us to a place where a fundamental spiritual shift of consciousness can happen... I am Reading about this and thinking personal experiences where music pushed my inner world to reach elevated states. Many thanks to Maria for putting together these newsletters and books. #MariaPopova #themarginalian www.themarginalian.org

A great article by Maria Popova on The Marginalian called, "The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long". I'll be coming back and reading this one again.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/09/01/seneca-on-the-shortness-of-life/

#seneca #TheMarginalian

A querida @mariapopova, ou #TheMarginalian, embarcou no Mastodon.

Ou a beleza.

#brainpickings #beauty #twittermigration