Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days and the enduring promise of

and the enduring promise of America

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Her aunt always said the apartment was a pinch in time

A cantankerously funny view of books and the people who love them

Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days and the enduring promise ofFrom writer Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian, comes a gorgeous and inspiring book of cards: one hundred "divinations" for daily living, partway between poem and koan yet neither, collaged from the texts and illustrations of 19th century ornithological books. How do we live with uncertainty? How can we come to know ourselves, to trust our own secret knowledge? Maria Popova was navigating a challenging season of being, longing for guidance, when