🧩 Philosophy Oct 25, 2026 · Maria Popova

The Dark Wood of the Golden Birds: Margaret Wise Brown’s Lost Masterpiece about Mortality and the Meaning of Life, Newly Illustrated

Brainpickings
View Channel →
The Dark Wood of the Golden Birds: Margaret Wise Brown’s Lost Masterpiece about Mortality and the Meaning of Life, Newly Illustrated
Source ↗ 👁 0 💬 0
In early September 1948, a year after she rewilded the landscape of literature with Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown watched the love of her life fade to black.
Michael Strange, born Blanche Oelrichs, had cast an instant spell on Margaret — outspoken, sophisticated, and self-possessed, so tall Margaret had to lift her grey-blue eyes to meet the black of Michael’s, her tall frame clad in masculine clothing she herself had designed to cling to her curves, with a musical voice unspooling f

Comments (0)

Sign in to join the discussion

More Like This

📰
Corrigibility should not be the only target
LessWrong · 20h ago
📰
Dialogue with Richard Ngo on Alignment, Hierarchical Integrity of Human-AI systems, Revolution, and Power
LessWrong · 22h ago
How to Run Better Research With Agent Fleets
LessWrong · 1d ago
GPT-6.1 Sol is One Sentence Away From Collaborating: Other Models Need More Help
LessWrong · 1d ago
University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
Daily Nous · 1d ago
📰
How much will conceptual reasoning training transfer to ML research abilities?
LessWrong · 1d ago