John O’Donohue on Beginnings – The Marginalian
There are moments in life when we are reminded that we are unfinished, that the story we have been telling ourselves about who we are […]
Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life – The Marginalian
We are each born with a wilderness of possibility within us. Who we become depends on how we tend to our inner garden — what […]
Nü Tennis | Seth’s Blog
Every day, about 16,000,000 hours of tennis are played. The percentage of that devoted to tournament play approaches zero. So why is informal tennis built […]
Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s Exquisite Illustrated Field Guide to the Wonder of the Winged – The Marginalian
“Split the Lark — and You’ll find the Music, ” Emily Dickinson taunted the materialists, “Now, do you doubt that your Bird was true?” In […]
A Jolt from Henry James – The Marginalian
“The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation,” Rebecca […]
None of it is important (and all of it is)
None of it is important (and all of it is) | Seth’s Blog Steinbeck points out that the stars shine in the sky, regardless of […]
J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children” – The Marginalian
“I do not believe that I have ever written a children’s book,” the great Maurice Sendak once said in an interview. “I don’t write for […]
Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life – The Marginalian
We are the survivors of immense and minute events — violent cosmic collisions and subtle genetic mutations, the deaths of innumerable suns and the births […]
Real artists… | Seth’s Blog
Real artists do all the painting themselves, not like Rembrandt Real artists use brushes, not technology like Cartier-Bresson Real writers write it out by hand, […]
Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older – The Marginalian
We live in a culture that dreads the entropic inevitability of growing older, treats it like a disease to be cured with potions and regimens, […]
