Very Necessary Qualifications of a Great Storyteller – The Marginalian
Toni Morrison once lamented that people have been taught to think of a book as a mirror, when it ought to be a door. All […]
Professionals know how to talk about it
Professionals know how to talk about it | Seth’s Blog We evolved words on top of our primordial ability to have feelings. Words allow us […]
The Only Three Distinctions Between People – The Marginalian
It may be that consciousness evolved to sieve the relevant from the incomprehensible allness of all there is, to parse the world into concepts and […]
Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Recomposes the Brain – The Marginalian
“Lights and shadows are continually flitting across my inward sky, and I know neither whence they come nor whither they go; nor do I inquire […]
Suboptimal events
Any gathering of more than two people involves compromise. Embracing this fact actually increases the utility of the event. It’s a trap to commit to […]
Walt Whitman and the Evolving Lexicon of Love – The Marginalian
This essay is adapted from Traversal and continues the story of the making of Leaves of Grass. With Leaves of Grass already printed — by […]
Nobel-Winning Spanish Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez’s Love Letter to Life – The Marginalian
Beneath our anxious quickenings, beneath our fanged fears, beneath the rusted armors of conviction, tenderness is what we long for — tenderness to salve our […]
Two video upgrades | Seth’s Blog
Two video upgrades | Seth’s Blog It took me thirty years to populate the bookshelf that’s behind me in most of my videos. Most of […]
Existentialist Embroidery – The Marginalian
The summer I turned forty, my maternal grandmother, then ninety, gave me an astonishing embroidery she had completed it when she was my age after, […]
Oliver Sacks on Memory, Originality, and Why Forgetting is Necessary for Creativity – The Marginalian
“Memory is never a precise duplicate of the original… it is a continuing act of creation,” researcher Rosalind Cartwright reminded us in her fascinating treatise […]
