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You'll always remember your first game 🥹

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Just wanted to say that Trump is a traitorous, Putin-loving dipshit! Goes double for Elon!

Read today's Calvin and Hobbes. #CalvinandHobbes gocomics.com/calvinandhobbe…

In 1985, months after I was born under a dictatorship on the other side of the Iron Curtain and two decades before she was awarded the Nobel Prize, Doris Lessing delivered Canada's esteemed Massey Lectures under the haunting title "Prisons We Choose to Live Inside," full of remarkable wisdom for living through our own time in history themarginalian.org/2024/11/11/dor…

Art Battle Ottawa: Women and War Art. Nov. 15 - 7pm to 10pm. Art Battle Ottawa comes to the Canadian War Museum! Eight artists battle it out over several rounds of artistic competition inspired by our special exhibition Outside the Lines. Details: warmuseum.ca/events/art-bat…

Excellent read on the art of self-renewal and our search for meaning themarginalian.org/2024/05/15/gar…

Vasily Grossman spent a thousand days as a correspondent on the frontlines of WWII, publishing some of the earliest eyewitness accounts of Nazi extermination camps, then wrote movingly about consciousness, freedom, kindness, and what makes life worth living themarginalian.org/2024/07/30/vas…

James Cook shirt will drop Wednesday….

The #WordOfTheDay is ‘armistice.’ ow.ly/xvSi50U3fJl

The consolations of chronodiversity – a geologist turned psychologist on the 12 kinds of time and how to be more (meaning)fully alive themarginalian.org/2024/09/18/chr…

On Dostoyevsky's birthday, the secret to a happy marriage – a beautiful reflection from his wife Anna, who was also his greatest champion and supporter as he struggled to become a writer themarginalian.org/2016/02/15/ann…

It was a Special Pencil Case. There were pencils marked 'HB' for Helping Bear, 'BB' for Brave Bear and a ruler for ruling lines for the words to walk on. But Eeyore was saying, 'This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me.' ~A.A.Milne #TuesdayFeeling

The Bulls lead the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, 40-38 at the half! Ryan Sabol scored 15 points in the opening half! 📺: ACCNX/ESPN+ #ALLinGRIT🤘 | #UBhornsUP

Oh, I'm tired of the noise and the turmoil of battle, And I'm even upset by the lowing of cattle, And the clang of' the bluebells is death to my liver, And the roar of the dandelion gives me a shiver, Give me Peace; that is all, that is all that I seek… ~A.A.Milne #ArmisticeDay

Mary Shelley — who lost her mother at birth, and lost three of her own children, her only sister, and the love of her life before the end of her twenties — on what makes life worth living themarginalian.org/2020/04/16/mar…

When the War is over and the sword at last we sheathe, I'm going to keep a jelly-fish and listen to it breathe. When the War is over and we've finished up the show, I'm going to plant a lemon-pip and listen to it grow. ~A.A.Milne #RemembranceSunday

Nothing has given me more consolation this week than Maya Angelou's poem "A Brave and Startling Truth," holding up a cosmic mirror to humanity, inspired by Carl Sagan (who would have been 90 today) themarginalian.org/2018/05/09/a-b…

Shortly after Nixon's election, at the peak of the Cold War, the great essayist and Charlotte's Web author E.B. White received a letter from a man who had lost faith in humanity, asking for advice on how to go on. His reply: themarginalian.org/2014/05/06/e-b…

Born 110 years ago today, Hedy Lamarr was once celebrated as "the most beautiful woman in the world." She was actually a remarkable inventor who devised a system for remote-controlling torpedoes that became the basis for bluetooth and wifi themarginalian.org/2011/12/08/hed…