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  "author": {
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  "content_md": "> Omens are the conversation between consciousness and reality, between the self and the unconscious — a conversation in the poetic language of belief. A bird is never a sign from reality, but it can become an omen based on what we believe to be true, for reality is the truth that endures whether or not we believe in it, while meaning arises from what we believe to be true. We make our own omens by the meaning we confer upon chance events, and it is the making of meaning that makes us human, that makes us capable of holding something as austere and total as the universe, as time, as love without breaking.\n\n[An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days – The Marginalian ↗](https://themarginalian.org/almanac-of-birds)",
  "content_html": "<blockquote><p>Omens are the conversation between consciousness and reality, between the self and the unconscious — a conversation in the poetic language of belief. A bird is never a sign from reality, but it can become an omen based on what we believe to be true, for reality is the truth that endures whether or not we believe in it, while meaning arises from what we believe to be true. We make our own omens by the meaning we confer upon chance events, and it is the making of meaning that makes us human, that makes us capable of holding something as austere and total as the universe, as time, as love without breaking.</p></blockquote>\n<p class=\"source\"><a href=\"https://themarginalian.org/almanac-of-birds\">An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days – The Marginalian ↗</a></p>",
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