Emerson on How to Touch the Universe – The Marginalian
The astonishing thing is that even though we will never truly know what it is like to be another creature or another person or any […]
Mad magazine autostereogram, cutecore | Seth’s Blog
Pop culture is spiralling. I had no idea what “mad magazine autostereogram, cutecore” meant, but it was enough for Midjourney to create this: Older generations […]
Rebecca West on Music and Life – The Marginalian
Time is the book we fill with the story of our lives. All great storytelling has the shape of music. All music is a shelter […]
Trauma Therapist Frances Weller on the Relationship Between Uncertainty and Renewal – The Marginalian
There are times in life when the continent of certainty parts underfoot and, as the ash cloud of the old world rains darkness upon us, […]
Not trying very hard | Seth’s Blog
This is not the same as not working very hard. In fact, they’re very different. We’ve been indoctrinated to avoid trying hard (too risky and […]
The Consolations and Invitations of Deep Time – The Marginalian
“My foothold is tenon’d and mortis’d in granite… and I know the amplitude of time,” wrote Walt Whitman, knowing what stone teaches about trusting time. […]
Room temperature | Seth’s Blog
Room temperature | Seth’s Blog Left alone, a cup of coffee will gradually cool until it reaches room temperature. Stable systems regress […]
How to Hold on to the Light of the World – The Marginalian
The light was always there — our star is a hundred million years older than our planet — but it was learning to see it, […]
The Trouble with Love – The Marginalian
Two centuries ago, a small group of brilliant and troubled young people trembling with the unprocessed traumas of their childhoods laid in their poems and […]
To be sure | Seth’s Blog
Even though yeast is far more reliable than it used to be, many bakers still proof it before investing the time and materials to bake […]
