Breathwork
[Off topic, but I hope it might be useful] Mindfulness can improve your life. So can stillness and spiritual grounding. This is not a post […]
The Bird That Is Your Life – The Marginalian
The great danger is to stand motionless on the bank as the river of your life rushes by. It is not easy, learning how to […]
Marianne Moore on the There Elements of Persuasive Writing – The Marginalian
Several years ago, rummaging through the archives of the Academy of American Poets, I came upon a box labeled “Ballots 1950” — the record of […]
The banal djinni | Seth’s Blog
The banal djinni | Seth’s Blog Technology changes things. Sometimes better, sometimes worse. When a powerful new technology arrives, it offers us wishes. Too often, […]
Cognitive Philosopher Andy Clark on the Power of Expectation and How the Mind Renders Reality – The Marginalian
Attention is less a lens on the world than a mirror for the mind. “My experience is what I agree to attend to,” William James […]
Walt Whitman, Shortly After His Paralytic Stroke, on What Makes Life Worth Living – The Marginalian
“Do you need a prod?” the poet Mary Oliver asked in her sublime meditation on living with maximal aliveness. “Do you need a little darkness […]
The Petrillo complications | Seth’s Blog
80 years ago, the most important person in the music business was James Petrillo. It’s difficult to imagine the head of the musician’s union on […]
Hemingway on the Most Devastating of Losses and the Meaning of Life – The Marginalian
Along the spectrum of losses, from the door keys to the love of one’s life, none is more unimaginable, more incomprehensible in its unnatural violation […]
Lessons in Love and Loss from Earth’s Most Successful and Creative Predator – The Marginalian
Marbling the waters of every ocean with their billows of black and white, orcas are Earth’s most creative and most successful apex predator. Although they […]
The definitive study of seed oil and health
That’s the appeal of it, of course. There isn’t a definitive study. There can’t be. Even if we created a forty-year-long, double-blind twin study, there’d […]
