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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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Kerala Sisters Pool Money, Use Mother’s Ancestral Land to Build a Home That Stays Cool Without Ac
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Kerala Sisters Pool Money, Use Mother’s Ancestral Land to Build a Home That Stays Cool Without Ac Environment
The Better India 20 hours 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...

Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley on the Surest Remedy for a Sunken Spirit and What Makes Life Worth Living – the... Arts
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Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley on the Surest Remedy for a Sunken Spirit and What Makes Life Worth Living – the...

After losing three children and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley to early death, Mary Shelley did not retreat into...

Barry Lopez on the Cure for Our Existential Loneliness and the Three Tenets of a Full Life – the Marginalian Inspiration
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Barry Lopez on the Cure for Our Existential Loneliness and the Three Tenets of a Full Life – the Marginalian

Maria Popova's meditation on Barry Lopez draws from his posthumous essay collection to trace something most modern...

Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers – the Marginalian Arts
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Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers – the Marginalian

When heartbreak made the familiar world feel uninhabitable, Olivia Laing walked forty-two miles along the River Ouse...

‘My Mangoes Would Go to Waste’: Jharkhand Woman Farmer’s Income Triples as Her Fruit Reaches England Inspiration
The Better India 1 day ago

‘My Mangoes Would Go to Waste’: Jharkhand Woman Farmer’s Income Triples as Her Fruit Reaches England

For years, Jiwanti Bara watched mangoes rot beneath the trees outside her home in Jharkhand - not for lack of care,...

A Life of One’s Own: a Brilliant Young Woman’s Forgotten Field Guide to the Art of Knowing What You Really... Inspiration
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A Life of One’s Own: a Brilliant Young Woman’s Forgotten Field Guide to the Art of Knowing What You Really...

In 1926, a young British psychoanalyst named Marion Milner began a seven-year diary experiment to discover what...