Maria Popova
Reader. Writer. Bicycle-dependent. Author of "Figuring."
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Midweek pick-me-up: Zadie Smith on optimism and despair
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Maria Popova “Progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and reimagined if it is to survive.” A timely treasure from the archive – Zadie Smith on optimism and despair: 17h
Stillness as a Form of Action: Tocqueville on Cataclysm as an Antidote to Cultural Complacency and a Catalyst for Growth
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“There are periods during which human society seems to rest… This pause is, indeed, only apparent, for time does not stop its course for nations any more than for [individuals]; they ar…
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Maria Popova Stillness as a form of action – from nearly 200 years ago and so very timely, Tocqueville on cataclysm as an antidote to cultural complacency and a catalyst for growth 19h
The Bach Project Yo-Yo Ma
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Maria Popova Bach's birthday. If you haven't been following 's ongoing Bach Project, do – the single most humanizing and harmonizing cross-cultural outstretched hand I've encountered 46h
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Maria Popova Artist and her writer/firefighter wife are doing a daily drawing lesson with a side of emotional processing for kids (and their larger humans) sheltered at home. They'll do it for as long as schools are closed. 10PDT daily. Lovely. 50h
Maria Popova Artist and her writer/firefighter wife have doing a daily drawing lesson with a side of emotional processing for kids (and their larger humans) sheltered at home. They'll do it for as long as schools are closed. 11PDT daily. Lovely. 50h
This Is Chance: The Story of the 1964 Alaska Earthquake and the Remarkable Woman Who Magnetized People into Falling Together as Their World Fell Apart
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“What is safety, anyway? How can you predict where or when tragedy will occur? You can only learn to live with it and make the best of it when it happens.”
Maria Popova "Our force for counteracting chaos is connection." Wondrous, uncannily timely read about how, half a century ago, a community survived one of the most devastating catastrophes ever recorded and emerged stronger, more connected, more human 44h
Maria Popova “What is safety, anyway? How can you predict where or when tragedy will occur? You can only learn to live with it and make the best of it when it happens.” Half a century ago, one remarkable woman helped a community find its hidden strength amid cataclysm 53h
Maria Popova Really can't overstate what a splendid, stunningly prescient book has written about the 1964 Alaska earthquake and the remarkable woman who magnetized people into falling together as their world fell apart, illuminating the roots of resilience 3d
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A digital home for the voices and work of the artists we’ve been lucky enough to host over the past 5 seasons in our Williamsburg venue.
Maria Popova A breath of beauty and aliveness amid the ruins of so many hopes: has launched free live virtual music performances of their usual exceptional caliber 3d
Murder Most Foul by Bob Dylan
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Maria Popova If you're a writer, or an artist of any stripe who has sacrificed what most wouldn't to choose again and again to make art, savor 's wonderful interview with for her excellent new podcast, 6d
Breath Of Life - A Breathing Meditation, by MORLEY
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Maria Popova A generous mental health offering from my darling friend – brilliant musician, peace and reconciliation activist, largehearted planetary steward: gorgeous 10-minute guided meditation recorded while sheltering in studio 6d
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry: Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads Walt Whitman’s Stunning Serenade to Our Interlaced Lives Across Space and Time
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“It avails not, time nor place… What is it then between us?… It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall, the dark threw its patches down upon me also.”
Maria Popova "It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall, The dark threw its patches down upon me also." This Whitman poem has been the single most comforting, perspective-widening, soul-salving thing all week, and one of the greatest all lifetime: #ShelterInPoems 4d
Maria Popova On the anniversary of Walt Whitman's death, his life-affirming masterpiece celebrating our interlaced lives across space and time—a poem that invites you to press your outstretched living fingers into the palm-print of the dead, into his generous open hand 7d
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Maria Popova “It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall, the dark threw its patches down upon me also.” Walt Whitman died on this day in 1892 and left us his stunning ode to our interlaced lives across space and time, stunningly read by 8d
Terror, Tenderness, and the Art of Buoyancy in Despair: How Ernst Haeckel’s Personal Tragedy Begot His Stunning 19th-Century Drawings of Jellyfish
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A story of transmuting the grief of one life into a celebration of the grandeur of Life.
Maria Popova Otherworldly beauty from the world’s first encyclopedia of jellyfish — the moving story of how Ernst Haeckel (who coined the word "ecology") turned his profound personal tragedy into transcendent art advancing science: 4d
Maria Popova Take a breath from our sphere, species, and scary moment in time with otherworldly beauty from the world’s first encyclopedia of jellyfish — the moving story of how Ernst Haeckel turned his profound personal tragedy into transcendent art advancing science 6d
Maria Popova The otherworldly beauty of jellyfish – how Ernst Haeckel turned personal tragedy into transcendent art in the world's first encyclopedia of deep-sea medusae (cc ) 7d
Midweek pick-me-up: The wonders of possibility
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Maria Popova “If we keep at it and keep alive... we can build structures for human society never seen before, thoughts never thought before, music never heard before.” Wonderfully timely read by one of humanity's most lucid and luminous scientific-poetic minds 8d
The Academy of American Poets Invites You to Participate in "Shelter in Poems"
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New York, NY (March 20, 2020)— In this time of uncertainty and great concern, many people are turning to poems to seek words of wisdom, uplifting ideas, and language that prompts reflection and centers us mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. In...
East Meets West: An Infographic Portrait
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German punctuality, Western ego and how to stand in line like a Chinese.
Jane Hirshfield – Brain Pickings
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Maria Popova A delight to hear Jane Hirshfield, a species treasure, on reading her poem "Cataclysm," which I've been reading to anyone who'd listen for weeks Her entire new book, LEDGER, is a lucid, luminous, re-saning gift – more here: 10d
Poetry Wields Science In ‘Unaccountable’ Times
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Poet Jane Hirshfield takes on crises both biological and human in her new book “Ledger.”
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Maria Popova A delight to hear Jane Hirshfield, a species treasure, on reading her poem "Cataclysm," which I've been reading to anyone who'd listen for weeks Her entire new book, LEDGER, is a lucid, luminous, re-saning gift – more here: 10d
An Antidote to Helplessness and Disorientation: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Our Human Fragility as the Key to Our Survival and Our Sanity
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“Only through full awareness of the danger to life can this potential be mobilized for action capable of bringing about drastic changes in our way of organizing society.”
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Maria Popova An antidote to helplessness and isolation – the great humanistic philosopher and psychologist Erich Fromm on our human fragility as the key to our survival and our sanity 5d
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Maria Popova An antidote to helplessness and disorientation – the great humanistic philosopher and psychologist Erich Fromm, born on this day in 1900, on our human fragility as the key to our survival and our sanity 10d
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Maria Popova An antidote to helplessness and disorientation – the great humanistic philosopher and psychologist Erich Fromm, born on this day in 1900, on our human fragility as the key to our survival and our sanity 11d
Iconic Painter Agnes Martin on Art, Solitude, and the Secret of Happiness
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“Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.”
Maria Popova "The best things in life happen to you when you’re alone." Agnes Martin, born on this day in 1912, on art, solitude, and the secret of happiness 11d
The coronavirus epidemic, like those before it, will alter the course of history in ways we can’t imagine - The Boston Globe
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As an archaeologist, I know that events we can’t control shape the future in ways we can’t imagine, for better and for worse,
Maria Popova "I’ve held enough ancient pottery fragments and sifted through enough dirt to tell you that history is shaped equally by the events of a global nature and the simple quiet choices we make every day." Perspective—personal, civilizational—from 11d
Today, Another Universe: Jane Hirshfield's perspectival poem of consolation by calibration; Rebecca Solnit on growing whole; transcendence in tragedy
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Maria Popova A care package for this disorienting week: 11d