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Maria Popova

mariapopova@indieweb.social

<p>Reader. Writer. Creator of The Marginalian (long ago named Brain Pickings). Lover of trees. Petter of moss. Rider of a cobalt blue bicycle with a golden bell.</p>

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    On Sylvia Plath’s birthday, the story behind her extraordinary poem about the tenacity of the creative spirit https://t.co/0r15hPb0oR

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne on how to look and really see https://t.co/aAumqya2P9

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    Your life, lived – some of the finest advice on the art of growing older https://t.co/WSc9shRqvS

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    For an act of resistance to the tyranny of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletter — undistracted notes on the search for meaning through art, science, philosophy, poetry, and various other tendrils of wonder. For 20 years, it has remained a one-woman labor of love — free, ad-free, AI-free, and fully human: https://t.co/kJdb2RsAit

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    In Praise of Shadows — gorgeous century-old read on ancient Japanese aesthetics and why every technology is a technology of thought https://t.co/pUiD8pykRY

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    “Life is wasted when we make it more terrifying, precisely because it is so easy to do so.” Enchantment and the courage of joy – René Magritte on the antidote to the banality of pessimism https://t.co/awwawnxzo2

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    Every time I watch this, it wings my day: Beethoven&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Ode to Joy,&amp;quot; brought to life by a Spanish flashmob of 100 musicians https://t.co/zu0vUBjdpO