Maria Popova @brainpicker
Reader. Writer. Creator of The Marginalian (long ago named Brain Pickings). Author of #Figuring. Lover of trees. Petter of moss. Rider of a cobalt blue bicycle. themarginalian.org Brooklyn, NY Joined October 2007-
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A century ago, G.K. Chesterton wrote brilliantly about how to find perspective in the age of opinion – even more necessary in our own time of algorithmically manipulated opinion-stoking themarginalian.org/2018/11/08/g-k…
Beautiful Brain – the stunning art of neuroscience founding father Santiago Ramón y Cajal, born on this day in 1853 themarginalian.org/2017/02/23/bea…
The Heart of the Matter – the French paleontologist, Jesuit priest, and philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, born on this day in 1881, on bridging the scientific and the sacred themarginalian.org/2023/05/06/the…
Diseases of the will – neuroscience founding father Santiago Ramón y Cajal, born on this day in 1852, on the 6 psychological foibles that keep the talented from reaching greatness themarginalian.org/2017/03/17/dis…
The majesty and mystery of one of this planet's most wondrous creatures – the bird-of-paradise themarginalian.org/2023/12/07/bir…
When relationships change – wonderful read on embracing the fluidity and mutability of love themarginalian.org/2024/02/11/ann…
What makes a great leader – timeless wisdom (doubly useful in an election year) from the founding mother of American feminism, who lived and died before women could vote themarginalian.org/2018/11/05/mar…
"At the end of my suffering there was a door." A benediction of a poem themarginalian.org/2024/04/29/lou…
"Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes." On Annie Dillard's birthday, her abiding wisdom on creativity and what it takes to be a writer themarginalian.org/2016/03/28/ann…
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." On Annie Dillard's 79th birthday today, revisiting her timeless classic on choosing presence over productivity themarginalian.org/2013/06/07/ann…
"This is a love story. You know. How two people, joined together, become themselves." An illustrated love letter to the timeless love of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas (born on this day in 1877) themarginalian.org/2020/08/28/mai…
“We live and move by splitting the light of the present, as a canoe’s bow parts water.” Annie Dillard, who turns 79 today, on how to draw love from your mortality themarginalian.org/2023/04/30/ann…
An illustrated ode to the art of attentiveness as a portal to self-understanding, empathy for others, and reverence for the loveliness of life themarginalian.org/2019/09/19/lis…
"whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice" The Wild Iris – Nobel laureate Louise Glück on the door at the end of your suffering themarginalian.org/2024/04/29/lou…
The Sound of Silence – an illustrated serenade to the art of listening to your inner voice amid the noise of modern life themarginalian.org/2016/09/08/the…
Elizabeth Blackwell is 29. The year is 1736. Her husband is in debtor’s prison and she has a small child to feed at home. What does she do? She turns desperation into inspiration, learning botany and painting an exquisite encyclopedia of medicinal plants themarginalian.org/2020/01/29/eli…
"All you have is what you are, and what you give." Ursula K. Le Guin on suffering and getting to the other side of pain themarginalian.org/2018/11/29/urs…
"We can never go back... We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago... All awakening to love is spiritual awakening." bell hooks on love: themarginalian.org/2023/11/03/bel…
In the autumn of 1883, a paper in the nation's capital reported that "an Iowa woman has spent 7 years embroidering the solar system on a quilt." Ellen Harding Baker used her stunning quilt to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/ell…
"If you are now wondering where to look for consolation, where to seek a new and better God... he does not come to us from books, he lives within us... This God is in you too... most particularly in you, the dejected and despairing." A lifeline of a read themarginalian.org/2018/12/12/her…
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@brainpicker I love your account! Thank you so much for being there❣️🙏
Fox and Bear – a tender modern fable about the meaning of enough, told in gorgeous cut-paper dioramas themarginalian.org/2023/07/01/fox…
@brainpicker Happy 17th! I should finally hang my 7-life-learnings art. 😊 Thank you, Maria. 💛💛💛
@brainpicker Congratulations on your 17th, thank you for magnifying my spirit
@brainpicker This is beautiful, wise, wonderful.
@brainpicker Thanks Maria for these 17 rounds of inspiration, best wishes for the coming time.
@brainpicker There’s a guy in Chicago who does this, cta red line. I used to catch him on my way to work once every few weeks. Totally made my day every time. Love it.
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@brainpicker After reading the book, which is definitely a masterpiece of existential literature, I also suggest watching the movie with Juliette Binoche.
This may be my first experience with a site providing a popup poem it thought I could use. Brainpicker, well done. I adore the poem “The Truelove” by David Whyte and love even more that a reading about Neitzsche’s walks turned such a romantic corner. I kept going until I found…
Nietzsche, born on this day in 1844, on walking and creativity themarginalian.org/2021/12/12/nie…
8/ The Marginalian Through her evocative essays exploring art and books, @brainpicker is known for inspiring in her readers a sense of awe for the right words. themarginalian.org
@brainpicker @AndrabiTahir Maria you are absolutely brilliant. I LOVE your 'pickings' 💜
@brainpicker Oh my! I just discovered you! Thank you for being in the world.
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TIL the term "Metanoia" can be extended to mean the belief that the universe conspires to help you. It's the opposite of paranoia. 🤔 From a talk Robert Anton Wilson gave in L.A. in 1988
Nothing makes me happier than seeing @brainpicker publish one of her own lush poems on The Marginalian. A gift to us all. themarginalian.org/2023/08/20/spe…
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On those rare, momentous mornings, one looks in the bathroom mirror and greets - sometimes grudgingly, sometimes gleefully - the gladsome stranger of oneself.” Maria Popova (@brainpicker), “Figuring”