https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/02/06/vaclav-havel-letters-to-olga/?mc_cid=2afb17e3f9&mc_eid=b7ee122c14

One very, very beautiful edition of the Marginalian. Thank you.
#marginalian

JOY
by Lisel Mueller, read by Nick Cave

“Don’t cry, it’s only music,”
someone’s voice is saying.
“No one you love is dying.”

Recorded for The #Marginalian. Poem text and context: https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/0...

Words: #LiselMueller
Voice: #NickCave
Art: Dorothy Lathrop
Music: Claude #Debussy
#mariapopova

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzLp7Va4MOQ

Spell Against Indifference: A Poem

Came across this poem from one of my favorite people , Maria Popover, this Sunday with a glimmer of hope the rays of the sun ☀️ will appear.

Be sure to listen to the spoken version, accessible with the link below, and have a great day, even if the sun doesn’t appear ❤️

"The rain falls and falls
cool, bottomless, and prehistoric
falls like night —
not an ablution
not a baptism
just a small reason
to remember
all we know of Heaven…”

Click the ‘alt' for the full poem (or the link.)
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poem #mariapopova #Marginalian
https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/08/20/spell-against-indifference/

@mariapopova
I #love the excerpts in this post.

Several times a year #Marginalian content stops me in my tracks.

DYK the term 'scientist' was coined in 1834, specifically, to describe a woman of #Science b/c referring to her as a 'man of science' seemed at odds?

"Whewell coined 'scientist' not just as a gender-neutral term bt to celebrate 'the peculiar illumination of the #female mind: ability to synthesize separate fields into a single discipline...like an 'artist.'

Imagine if synthesizing minds had dominated the course of #history over the last 2k yrs?
#Marginalian #women

https://bit.ly/3p3PnSb

For #IWD2023, a nice piece about Mary Somerville by Maria Popova (@mariapopova) from The #Marginalian

https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/10/20/mary-somerville/

According to her daughter, Somerville "was ever ready to hail joyfully any new idea or theory, and to give it honest attention, even if it were at variance with her former conviction"

Adapted from Popova's book "Figuring" [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/07/figuring-maria-popova-review]
which I now have to read.

#science #history #marginalian

I'm not sure when I got out of the habit of checking #Marginalian but oh what a joy to rediscover the expert curation of @mariapopova over here on #mastodon.

This one is perfect for the #twixtmas period..

https://indieweb.social/@mariapopova/109598147127555313

Just discovered this wonderful website. Can't wait to dive in and read these really interesting articles. #Marginalian #SearchForMeaning

https://www.themarginalian.org/about/

Someone a week or two ago was wondering whether @mariapopova was on here. She is (though by the look of it, solely posting #Marginalian links).

"Freedom is our ability to rise out of history and grasp a universal idea of order which we then apply to the sensible world."
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#freedom #wisedom #IrisMurdoch #marginalian #content
https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/05/28/iris-murdoch-freedom/

All is well in the world - the amazing Maria Popova has joined us here. @mariapopova She was one of the first people I followed on the bird site when I joined a very long time ago. She is an amazing writer and collector of ideas and knowledge - her #Brainpickings are a delight to read ..now renamed #Marginalian her website and newsletters are full of fascinating pieces of writing on everything you can imagine from #art #music #science #poetry #nature #literature #letters #love #grief #friendship #inventions and much more... as this place has grown so much and it's very mycelial in nature..thought you might appreciate this recent post of hers about #soundwaves and #mushrooms 🍄😃 https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/13/mushrooms-sound-waves/