About the Book: An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days
How do we live with uncertainty? Maria Popova was navigating a challenging
season, longing for guidance, when she conceived of this project fusing her love
of birds and her love of language, her scepticism about tarot and her compassion
for the basic human yearning to be shown the way through.
Originally intended as a gift to her friends, she set out to create an avian
alternative to tarot-a deck of cards for making sense of the present, for
finding grace in the complexities and confusions of our human lives. Each night
before sleep,