While we can’t dispense drugs, dear reader, we can provide a reading list that speaks to pharmaceuticals and the pharmaco-industrial complex in myriad ways.

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'Solitude is not chosen, any more than destiny is chosen. Solitude comes to us if we have within us the magic stone that attracts destiny.'

Hermann Hesse on solitude, the value of hardship, and the courage to be yourself themarginalian.org/2019/01/15/her…

'Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.'

Mary Oliver's advice on writing themarginalian.org/2019/01/14/mar…

No one wrote I am over you, bye poems quite like Louise Glück

Here are my black clothes

I think now it is better to love no one
than to love you.

The women in the beautiful paintings never have
broken hearts. They are happy in spring light,
standing in their gardens.
(If I had made a garden. If I had stayed happy.)

-Linda Gregg

Ever wonder why you have to feel uncomfortable before you get the 'feel-good' sensation that often follows a vigorous workout or a sauna session?

Our brain releases dynorphin - an opioid that is responsible for that dysphoric feeling but it also regulates our body's response to…

What's the most haunting line you've ever read in a piece of literature? Something that stays with you like a shadow.

whenever I sit down for dinner

Secret garden goals

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Since April is National Poetry Month. Who are your favorite contemporary, living poets? A few of mine Wendell Berry, Ada Limon, Naomi Shihab Nye, Joy Harjo, Dr. Maya C. Popa, Maggie Smith . I ask because I love poetry & am always looking for new poets to discover.

So you already checked morels and pheasant’s back mushrooms off your 2024 fungus checklist? Congrats 🥳! Now it’s time to start looking for hairy rubber cup (Galiella rufa) and poor man’s licorice (Bulgaria inquinans). #ForbiddenPeanutButterCups

What in the world?! Definitely the strangest thing I’ve read about today…

Modern-day workplace capers, sibling misadventures, and the best cover we've seen in a hot second (it's got googly eyes!)...here are 51 great new contemporary and historical fiction books published since the beginning of the year.

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It's Wednesday so it's another adventure for Nina the librarian in my fiction serial on Channillo. This time Linda proves surprisingly useful when a Code Blue happens during Saturday Story Time. channillo.com/series/the-lib…
#librarylife #serial #irishfiction

Beloved Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue on the restlessness at the heart of creativity and the paradox of belonging themarginalian.org/2016/01/11/ete…

What's the best starter psychedelic that ISN'T shrooms, and why?

Utah quietly legalizes MDMA and Psilocybin for mental health treatment at two major hospital systems.

The Governor will let this program go into effect on May 1st.

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After Love – Maxine Kumin's stunning poem about eros as a portal to unselfing themarginalian.org/2023/10/02/max…

The most interesting thing I have read about AI for a while is this article > Alison Gopnik WSJ Columns buff.ly/3UN9b9U