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Curiosity as an Instrument of Love: Thoreau’s Touching Account of 24 Hours with a Tiny Owl – the Marginalian Arts
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Curiosity as an Instrument of Love: Thoreau’s Touching Account of 24 Hours with a Tiny Owl – the Marginalian

On a raw October afternoon in 1855, Henry David Thoreau encountered a small screech-owl on a hemlock stump and did something radical: rather than shoot it for study as naturalists of his day would have done, he gently captured it, brought it home to observe for twenty-four...

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'Relentless Outreach': the State That Doesn't Give up on Mentally Ill Residents Community
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'Relentless Outreach': the State That Doesn't Give up on Mentally Ill Residents

For nearly two decades, Janina Estrada searched for her son Jimmy Barela in the rain, behind dumpsters, in the...

The Schools Giving Children a Say in How They Are Run Schools
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The Schools Giving Children a Say in How They Are Run

When a six-year-old suggests a "buddy bench" for lonely classmates and watches it become real, something shifts - not...

Václav Havel, Writing From Prison, on How to Hold Your Failure – the Marginalian Inspiration
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Václav Havel, Writing From Prison, on How to Hold Your Failure – the Marginalian

Václav Havel - playwright, dissident, eventual president of the Czech Republic - knew what it was to betray himself,...

How Utah Is Looking Out for Kids Who Lose a Parent Youth
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How Utah Is Looking Out for Kids Who Lose a Parent

When Ashlyn Stone's partner died in a car accident in 2020, no one from any public agency reached out to help her...

From Barren Shores to Green oases: How a Surfer Looking for Shade Ended up Transforming Costa Rica’s Coastline | Costa... Environment
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From Barren Shores to Green oases: How a Surfer Looking for Shade Ended up Transforming Costa Rica’s Coastline | Costa...

What begins as a surfer's promise to his girlfriend - that he would reforest a shadeless beach so she could enjoy...

Nobody Taught Them to Adult — So They're Teaching Each Other Youth
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Nobody Taught Them to Adult — So They're Teaching Each Other

Every year in India, roughly 30,000 teenagers age out of state-run childcare to become, as one advocate put it,...