Every once in awhile I discover a brilliant light in the contemporary human universe. That’s why I’m writing now, to introduce you to Maria Popova, who has an extraordinary mind and expresses herself in extraordinarily articulate annotated essays which often prove to be feasts which fill both the heart and mind of the reader. Popova is well worth the time invested to read her work. Her blog was formerly known as “Brainpickings,” and is now “The Marginalian.”

Here are links to three of her essays. I hope you find her work as satisfying and worthwhile as I have.

https://www.brainpickings.org/2021/06/13/alan-lightman-probable-impossibilities/

https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/12/25/brian-greene-rilke/

https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/09/03/rilke-love-marriage/

“There are such relationships which must be a very great, almost unbearable happiness, but they can occur only between very rich natures and between those who, each for himself, are richly ordered and composed; they can unite only two wide, deep, individual worlds.”