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Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: the Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” – the Marginalian Arts
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Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: the Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” – the Marginalian

Beethoven composed the "Ode to Joy" almost entirely deaf, arrested once as a tramp, estranged from loved ones, bludgeoned by war and grief - and yet he never abandoned the dream he had carried since adolescence, when Schiller's poem first convinced him that freedom and human...

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A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings – the Marginalian Inspiration
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A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings – the Marginalian

Maria Popova draws on the final work of Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue to explore why beginnings frighten...

The inside-outside Strategy Behind New York’s Rent Freeze | Waging Nonviolence Community
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The inside-outside Strategy Behind New York’s Rent Freeze | Waging Nonviolence

When New York City's Rent Guidelines Board voted this June to freeze rents for the first time in years - including a...

This Mom Tattooed a Keyboard on Her Arm So Her Son Could Always Be Heard Inspiration
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This Mom Tattooed a Keyboard on Her Arm So Her Son Could Always Be Heard

When her nonverbal son Hunter's communication device died at a restaurant, Jessica Fletcher watched him do something...

84-YO Salem Weaver Sells Handwoven Sarees Worldwide After Grandson Launches Instagram Store Elders
The Better India 19 hours ago

84-YO Salem Weaver Sells Handwoven Sarees Worldwide After Grandson Launches Instagram Store

For sixty years, Chinnusami has walked to his wooden loom each morning in a Tamil Nadu village, his hands now...

In One of Mp's Most Remote Districts, an Ias Officer's Simple System Helped Cut Maternal Deaths by 50% Everyday Heroes
The Better India 22 hours ago

In One of Mp's Most Remote Districts, an Ias Officer's Simple System Helped Cut Maternal Deaths by 50%

In Shahdol, a remote tribal district of Madhya Pradesh where monsoon rains can swallow roads for days, pregnant women...

Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: the Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity – the Marginalian Inspiration
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Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: the Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity – the Marginalian

Beneath every longing for love and every flinching away from it, the body is keeping its own account. Maria Popova's...