Popova writes that “eaning is not what we find but what we create with the lives we live and the seeds we plant and the organizing principles according to which we sculpt our personhood.” The lives, the seeds, the principles are what inform this unusual and original book. I can, however, say simply that Popova’s central concern is the question of how humans make meaning. They are not perturbed by offshoots that others might call digressions but instead feel themselves to be held in trustworthy hands that will not leave them stranded.įiguring does not lend itself to summary to do so would be an injustice to author Maria Popova’s themes and methods that are inextricably linked throughout the book. The readers who will love this book - count me among them - delight in walking on paths that branch without a defined destination. This book is not for those who need to know in advance what a book is about.
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