ANALYSIS | U.S. interest in Alberta separatism raises red flags over what might come next | CBC News Communications between the Trump administration and Alberta's separatist movement raised alarm at the highest levels in Canada last week. It also raised questions about Washington's possible intention...

“ #MariaPopova, a #politicalscience professor at McGill University and author of two books on #Russian-Ukrainian relations, sees the meetings as evidence that "we're now under hybrid attack from the #U.S."
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"…the mystery has only deepened for us 'atoms with consciousness,' capable of music and of murder."

#MariaPopova #Schrödinger

“Skeletal and pulmonary, winter trees rise into the leaden sky, their skin a braille poem of resistance.”

Maria Popova “The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals of Wonder Through Science & Poetry”

“Conversationalists” © Michael Levy
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Ladysmith, BC

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Currently reading #Figuring by #MariaPopova, a little gem of a book, by times, inspiring, insightful, revelatory & enlightening... in short - a joy.

Check it out... you won't be disappointed...
#highlyrecommended

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This morning's inspiration
Bird Divination: Audubon's Woodpecker (almanacofbirds.org)
by #mariapopova

How to be a lichen — salve for the aches of being human from nature's tiny titans of resilience; Neruda's love letter to language; a cosmic fable

#MariaPopova

Maria Popova Quotes❓ Ever since I first began reflecting on what I have learned about living with each passing year of writing ‘The Marginalian’ (because writing is the best means I have of metabolizing my own life), thes...

Respectful of others.

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From #MariaPopova
@themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy
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#poetry
You must see this.

Mushrooms and our search for meaning (an Orion special), Oliver Sacks on the 100 milliseconds between the world and you, Whitman on owning your life

Who wd we be if our “artificial” intelligence turned natural, built on the nonbinary logic of symbiosis, restoring the unity of life into a perfect circle with no sides to take?'
#MariaPopova #TheMarginalian
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Carl Jung on the relationship between suffering and creativity; is peace possible; what it's like to be an owl

Always brilliant #MariaPopova mailchi.mp/themarginali...

Ocean Vuong on Anger “To be an artist is a guarantee to your fellow humans that the wear and tear of living will not let you become a murderer,” Louise Bourgeois wrote in her diary as a young artist. “The poets (…

"Vuong’s most elegant and countercultural point is that while anger need not be absent or suppressed in our inner lives, it must not become the end point of our work in the world but rather an opening — a handle on the door to compassion"
#MariaPopova

www.themarginalian.org/2025/05/07/o...

Illustration by artist Ping Zhu, a lioness in the African savanna brush with blood around her mouth. This illustration has broad brush strokes and is monochromatically drawn in the color of straw, the blood pops off the page.

Reminding all women out there: We are lionesses. Power to all sisters. Listen and yield. Stronger together.
No one is coming to save us. #Women #Pride #MariaPopova #AVelocityofBeing

Walt Whitman on Democracy and Optimism as a Mighty Form of Resistance “I can conceive of no better service… than boldly exposing the weakness, liabilities and infinite corruptions of democracy.”

"The illusion of permanent progress inflicts a particularly damning strain of despair as we witness the disillusioning undoing of triumphs of democracy and justice generations in the making — despair preventable only by taking a wider view of history"
Maria Popova

#MariaPopova #HopeOverFear

Forgiveness Shortly after I began the year with some blessings, a friend sent me Lucille Clifton’s spare, splendid poem “blessing the boats.” We had met at a poetry workshop and shared a reso…

#forgiveness has been my path to healing for the past 11 years. This poem is magical. Everything Maria does is magical. And bonus: Nick Cave reads this! And the music is his.

#poetry #poem #fave #mariapopova #nickcave

Forgiveness www.themarginalian.org/2025/01/17/f...

#poetrypharmacy #poems #poetry #nickcave #mariapopova

The Promethean Power of Burnout “Burnout fully realised is also the decisive, exhausted moment in which we realise we cannot go on in the same way. Not being able to go on, is always in the end, a creative act, the threshol…

Have you discovered Maria Popova's site, "The Marginalian"? If not, check it out.
#marginalian #literature #writing #MariaPopova

Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in our personal lives and we do it in our political lives. We are living through a time of un…

www.themarginalian.org/2024/07/18/l...

#themarginalian #mariapopova #leonardcohensos1995 #poetryofprotest #poetryofresistance

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“Words are events, they do things, they change things. They transform both the speaker and the hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it. “
Ursula K Guin via The #TheMarginalian. #mariapopova

Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in our personal lives and we do it in our political lives. We are living through a time of un…

#mariapopova
One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in our personal lives and we do it in our political lives.
Here is #LeonardCohen on the antidote to anger and the meaning of resistance: www.themarginalian.org/2024/07/18/l...

The Pleasure of Being Left Alone “An exquisite peace obtains: a drowsy, golden peace, flowing honey-sweet over my dwelling, soaking it, dripping like music from the walls… A peace for gods; a divine emptiness.”

On the pleasure of being alone, by #MariaPopova at #TheMarginalian

www.themarginalian.org/2024/06/13/r...

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name “Despite what dictionaries would have us believe, this world is still mostly undefined.”

El diccionario de las palabras innombrables
(Via #MariaPopova #TheMarginalian)

www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/12/d...

Maria Popova quote - communication as a system for the transfer of tenderness

#tenderness #mariapopova #understanding