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How to Delight in Your Days: Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness – the Marginalian Inspiration
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How to Delight in Your Days: Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness – the Marginalian

Poet Ross Gay spent one year writing a miniature essay each day about a single delight - a hummingbird slipping its needle nose into a zinnia, a stranger's spontaneous high-five in an Indiana coffee shop, the honeybees in the linden trees "thick enough for me not only to hear...

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The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity – the Marginalian Inspiration
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The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity – the Marginalian

Solitude, as Buddhist scholar Stephen Batchelor understands it, is not an escape from life but a more honest way of...

How a South African Town Cleaned up Its Polluted River Using stones, Wood and Sand | Global Development | the... Environment
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How a South African Town Cleaned up Its Polluted River Using stones, Wood and Sand | Global Development | the...

In a fast-expanding informal settlement outside Stellenbosch, South Africa, researchers have found a way to make a...

The Unlikely Rise of the Sea Shanty Band Community
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The Unlikely Rise of the Sea Shanty Band

Something old and salt-worn is finding its way back to people who need it. In coastal sheds and riverside pubs across...

One Way to Keep Childcare Affordable? Give Staff Free Housing Community
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One Way to Keep Childcare Affordable? Give Staff Free Housing

When the Friends Center for Children surveyed its staff about their living situations in 2020, the results were...

Colours Centre for Learning for Autism in Bengaluru Inspiration
The Better India 18 hours ago

Colours Centre for Learning for Autism in Bengaluru

When Bela Joshi's autistic son was asked to leave a reputed therapy center over a financial dispute - "no fault of...

Kerala Sisters Pool Money, Use Mother’s Ancestral Land to Build a Home That Stays Cool Without Ac Environment
The Better India 1 day ago

Kerala Sisters Pool Money, Use Mother’s Ancestral Land to Build a Home That Stays Cool Without Ac

Two sisters from Kerala, both living and working abroad for decades, returned to their mother's ancestral land and...