{"id":12665,"date":"2026-03-27T21:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T01:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/corrective-for-a-broken-heart-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T21:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T01:37:26","slug":"corrective-for-a-broken-heart-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/corrective-for-a-broken-heart-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Corrective for a Broken Heart \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"posts\">\n<h2\/>\n<h3 class=\"byline\">By Maria Popova<\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry_content\">\n<p>\u201cLife will break you,\u201d Louise Erdrich wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarginalian.org\/2024\/03\/22\/love-anyway\/\">her passionate insistence<\/a> that \u201cyou are here to risk your heart.\u201d It can happen with a shattering, or with a thousand small fissures, but the great paradox \u2014 the great salvation \u2014 is that every time it happens, you live to see you are unbreakable. <\/p>\n<p>And so, a poem. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Corrective for a Broken Heart&quot; by Maria Popova\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/srpnbgkBkcE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>CORRECTIVE FOR A BROKEN HEART<\/strong><br \/><em>by Maria Popova<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Why all the threadbare drama,<br \/>the stale catastrophism<br \/>of calling it broken?<br \/>It still beats,<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0doesn\u2019t it,<br \/>still trembles at the sight<br \/>of fog flowing through the forest<br \/>like a slow dance song.<br \/>It was only<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dislocated,<br \/>lost its locus<br \/>for a while,<br \/>popped out of the socket<br \/>of good sense.<br \/>There is no one<br \/>to pick up the pieces<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0because there are no pieces.<br \/>Only the firm, fastidious<br \/>hand of time<br \/>to slide it back<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0into place.<\/p>\n<p>And after all<br \/>who can fault<br \/>the wayward compass<br \/>when the magnetic north pole<br \/>is in constant motion<br \/>drifting by fifty kilometers a year<br \/>and reversing itself altogether<br \/>every few centuries<br \/>while each twenty-six thousand years<br \/>a different north star<br \/>comes to shine its guiding light<br \/>above all the confusion.<\/p>\n<p>We are here<br \/>to lose our way.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Maria Popova \u201cLife will break you,\u201d Louise Erdrich wrote in her passionate insistence that \u201cyou are here to risk your heart.\u201d It can happen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-purpose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}