Nina Sander

“A principal task of art is to strengthen the adversarial consciousness.” —Susan Sontag buff.ly/eOZAYXh

Poems for Lent (Day 19)

In 1933, visionary choreographer Busby Berkeley stunned audiences with one of the most spectacular musical sequences ever filmed in the classic pre-Code movie Footlight Parade.

Feeling a kinship with... • Ella Wheeler Wilcox •

Studies show that watching a beaver eat cabbage lowers stress by 17%

Linger upon... • Mary Oliver •

Anaïs Nin, born on this day in 1903, on why emotional excess is vital for creativity themarginalian.org/2012/09/03/ana…

It's going to be okay ☀️⛵️

Esther Perel dismantles two romantic myths in one breath: There is no "one and only"—no destined soulmate waiting to complete you. You choose someone at a particular moment, with timing, chemistry, and shared effort shaping what becomes possible. You could have built something profound with others too. Soulmate? That's a metaphor for a transcendent connection—not a literal person. (Soulmate was once reserved for God, not humans.) And unconditional love? It doesn't exist in adult relationships. We live with ambivalence: loving deeply while still resenting, needing space, or wishing for distance at times. That's not failure—it's normal, human reality. Love isn't fairy-tale certainty; it's chosen, flawed, and co-created every day.

"Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have." — James Baldwin

“Madness must not be ignored or brushed aside, but spoken, written, and thought: it is a formidable transitory state, a tireless source of creativity” J. Kristeva

“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.” ―Joseph Campbell

💘 Celebrating the captivating Nastassja Kinski on her birthday. 💘 On @criterionchannl, watch her iconic performance alongside Harry Dean Stanton in Wim Wenders's PARIS, TEXAS (1984) alongside archival interviews, deleted scenes, and more from our edition of the film.

'Optimism' by Jane Hirshfield