{"id":13567,"date":"2026-08-16T00:04:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T04:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/how-love-comes-to-you-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T00:04:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T04:04:50","slug":"how-love-comes-to-you-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/how-love-comes-to-you-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"How Love Comes to You \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>We spend our days making plans, making promises, making predictions about the possible, and yet the most bewildering thing about life is that its imagination is always greater than that of the living \u2014 life keeps surprising us, keeps reminding us that all too often <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarginalian.org\/2026\/04\/30\/bet\/\">the wildest bet is the winning bet<\/a>. And all the while, we, living mysteries, keep surprising ourselves. To give up on anything \u2014 a dream, a loved one, love itself \u2014 is to deny this most irrepressible pulse-beat of being alive.<\/p>\n<p>These truths came thundering down upon me in a recent installment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarginalian.org\/2026\/03\/19\/reweaving-the-rainbow\/\"><em>Reweaving the Rainbow<\/em><\/a> \u2014 a collaboration with my wonderful friend Willow, taking science news and applying to them my <a href=\"https:\/\/almanacofbirds.org\/\">bird divination process<\/a>, liberating language from the shackles of its technical context to converse with the unconscious in the shape of a poem, a koan, a prayer for something larger than understanding. In the particle collider of the subterranean mind, a long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/03\/science\/honeybees-veterinary-medicine.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New York Times<\/em> article<\/a> about honeybee veterinarians became exactly what I needed, and didn\u2019t know I needed, to hear \u2014 a spell against resignation, an insistence on surprise over probability, an antilamentation for the possible:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_87706\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redbubble.com\/shop\/ap\/182913086?ref=studio-promote\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themarginalian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/PoppyDivination_by_MariaPopova_small.jpg?resize=680%2C850&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"850\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themarginalian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/PoppyDivination_by_MariaPopova_small.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themarginalian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/PoppyDivination_by_MariaPopova_small.jpg?resize=320%2C400&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themarginalian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/PoppyDivination_by_MariaPopova_small.jpg?resize=600%2C750&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themarginalian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/PoppyDivination_by_MariaPopova_small.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themarginalian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/PoppyDivination_by_MariaPopova_small.jpg?resize=768%2C960&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Available as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redbubble.com\/shop\/ap\/182913086?ref=studio-promote\" target=\"_blank\">a print and more<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/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 We spend our days making plans, making promises, making predictions about the possible, and yet the most bewildering thing about life is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13567","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\/13567","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=13567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}