“From the cosmic lottery hat containing zillions of universes, we happened to draw a universe that allowed life.”| The Marginalian
The lost art of learning to “stand in a place where we would rather not and expand in ways we never knew we could.”| The Marginalian
“Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy.”| The Marginalian
A heartening perspective on mortality by way of the physics of the cosmos and the poetics of the night-blooming cereus cactus.| The Marginalian
“We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.”| The Marginalian
“To lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking and cease to ask unanswerable questions [is to] lose not only the ability to produce those thought-things that we call works of art but also…| The Marginalian