{"id":9701,"date":"2024-12-26T13:39:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T17:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/the-best-of-the-marginalian-2024-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2024-12-26T13:39:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T17:39:38","slug":"the-best-of-the-marginalian-2024-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/the-best-of-the-marginalian-2024-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best of The Marginalian 2024 \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Maria Popova<\/h3>\n
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Hindsight is how we connect the dots that figure our lives. To look back on even a single year is to see clearly the contour of who we are in its points of attention and priority. \u201cHow we spend our days,\u201d Annie Dillard wrote<\/a>, \u201cis how we spend our lives.\u201d How we spend our minds is our primary purchase on our days. <\/p>\n

In the annual hindsight ritual<\/a> of distilling the \u201cbest\u201d of The Marginalian<\/em>, here is a Venn diagram of the most read pieces and those I most loved writing, which never perfectly coincide \u2014 a lovely reminder that we read the same way we love: with ideas about what is best as different as the minds that carry them. <\/p>\n

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An Almanac of Birds: Divinations for Uncertain Days<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/h5>\n

Love Anyway<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/h5>\n

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/h5>\n

But We Had Music<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/h5>\n

Thank You, Everything: An Illustrated Love Letter to the World<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/h5>\n

The Universe in Verse Book<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How Groups of Birds Got Their Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/h5>\n

Hermann Hesse on Discovering the Soul Beneath the Self and the Key to Finding Peace<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Great Blue Heron, Signs vs. Omens, and Our Search for Meaning<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/h5>\n

A Lighthouse for Dark Times<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/h5>\n

Thich Nhat Hanh on True Love and the Five Rivers of Self-Knowledge<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/h5>\n

The Pleasure of Being Left Alone<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/h5>\n

Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/h5>\n

Winnicott on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind and a Healthy Relationship<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/h5>\n

Kafka\u2019s Creative Block and the Four Psychological Hindrances That Keep the Talented from Manifesting Their Talent<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/h5>\n

How to Live a Miraculous Life: Brian Doyle on Love, Humility, and the Quiet Grace of the Possible<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/h5>\n

Albert Camus on How to Live Whole in a Broken World<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/h5>\n

Let the Last Thing Be Song<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/h5>\n

A Spell Against Stagnation: John O\u2019Donohue on Beginnings<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Profit<\/a>
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