An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days In nearly two decades of The Marginalian, nothing has stirred a more passionate response from readers than the strangest, most sidewise, most private of my labors — the bird divinations I ori…

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Detailed illustration of two snowy owls or lear’s sitting on a branch, one facing forward and the other turned back. A poem written on bits if paper sits on top of the illustration. Card from An Almanac of Birds by Maria Popova.

“On the uncertain grounds
of existence
precipitous with doubt
true shelter is found not in high esteem but in being wholly seen and known.”
- @mariapopova.bsky.social on divination from birds, partway between koan & poem

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