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“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” Toni Morrison's magnificent Nobel Prize acceptance speech themarginalian.org/2016/12/07/ton…

"(You never know what troubled little girl needs a book)" Nikki Giovanni's wonderful poems celebrating libraries and librarians themarginalian.org/2015/12/11/nik…

When the American government set out to erase indigenous culture, one woman set out to save tribal music, traveling far and wide with her cylinder phonograph, trousers, and bow tie themarginalian.org/2026/04/21/fra…

Fascinating read on the creative unconscious and the psychology of transformation themarginalian.org/2025/05/02/eri…

We need science to help us meet reality on its own terms, and we need poetry to help us broaden and deepen the terms on which we meet ourselves and each other. themarginalian.org/uiv-book/

“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels… It appears wherever we take a close and careful look at another being, at something that is not our ‘self.’” Superb read: themarginalian.org/2022/11/21/ten…

“We do not know why we are born into the world, but we can try to find out what sort of world it is.” The life and legacy of Edwin Hubble, illustrated: themarginalian.org/2021/01/24/the…

This is wonderful and surprising in the best ways: Chinua Achebe on art as a form of citizenship themarginalian.org/2020/08/06/chi…

"To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight." A classic: themarginalian.org/2017/09/25/e-e…

"Solitude is not chosen, any more than destiny is chosen. Solitude comes to us if we have within us the magic stone that attracts destiny." A gem of a read: themarginalian.org/2019/01/15/her…

The light between us themarginalian.org/2022/01/31/jam…

Blue is the color of desire – the science, poetry, and wonder of the bowerbird themarginalian.org/2023/10/29/bow…

Walt Whitman, shortly after his paralytic stroke, on what makes life worth living themarginalian.org/2026/04/19/wal…

A reality check from, well, reality in this #birddivination inspired by the dear wood thrush. As always, find it as a solo print and part of the deck of 100, along with the story and process behind them, at almanacofbirds.org

Pioneering psychologist Carl Rogers on the 3 elements of the good life: themarginalian.org/2025/10/05/car…

"All human experience is part phantom — the product of deep-set predictions." A cognitive philosopher's fascinating investigation of the power of expectations: themarginalian.org/2026/04/19/the…

How not to waste your life themarginalian.org/2025/10/31/haw…

Of stars, seagulls, and love – Loren Eiseley (one of my all-time favorite writers) on the first and final truth of life themarginalian.org/2026/04/14/lor…

"One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience... Storytelling is a tool for knowing who we are and what we want." Ursula K. Le Guin on storytelling and the power of language to transform and redeem themarginalian.org/2018/01/30/urs…

Einstein died on this day in 1955, having revolutionized science. But he was also a staunch defender of the human spirit. Here is his moving letter to Marie Curie when she (even she) was besieged by haters: themarginalian.org/2016/04/19/ein…