We found a lovely, simple way to reframe those big existential questions everyone seems to ask themselves about whether they are enough…
Read More10 Ways to Deepen Conversation + the Crap Advice You Should Forget (Celeste Headlee)
We’ve found employing Celeste Headlee’s 10 principles for having a better conversation really DO take the conversation farther. Here they are, including the Crap Advice she advises you forget.
Read MoreOpened at Random: ‘Insomniac City by Bill Hayes
This morning, we opened Bill Hayes’ “Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me” to this…
Read MoreSally Mann on ‘Relishing the Limitations of the Ordinary’
Hold Still, A Memoir with Photographs, by legendary photographer Sally Mann reads like an epic novel shot through with photographs and remarkable insights about the creative process, and embracing the “limitations of the ordinary”.
Read More4-7-8 Breathing: “most powerful anti-anxiety measure I’ve found” (Dr. Weil + Rumi)
Andrew Weil demonstrates a simple breathing technique he calls “the single most powerful anti-anxiety measure I’ve found”. We don’t know anyone who wouldn’t benefit from it.
Read MoreWhere to Go with Hope or Anxiety
A Monument for the Anxious and Hopeful at NYC’s Rubin Museum is a powerful interactive display of visitor’s anxieties and hopes. As is this strategy for navigating them.
Read More‘Nitch’ is Worth Checking Into Daily for Ballast and Uplift
The most refreshing and instantly illuminating site we’ve seen lately is Nitch, rich with unexpected little blasts of unique perspectives and ideas…
Read MoreOpened at Random: ‘Devotions’ by Mary Oliver
This morning, we opened Mary Oliver’s Devotions to this…
Read MorePaper Shades Give a Community Soup Kitchen a Noguchi Touch (That We Love at Home as Well)
We’ve long loved paper shades, pioneered by Noguchi, to give soft modern shapes to home interiors as well as jazzing up public ones like this community soup kitchen in London
Read MoreBegin Anywhere, Ideas Will Come (Lucio Fontana, Gary Snyder)
Every morning, we take a minute to look at this image of artist Lucio Fontana approaching a blank canvas. It offers an essential insight about creative work as does this tiny poem by Gary Snyder.
Read MoreViewing Trees as a Verb
In ‘What Makes a Tree a Tree?’ Rachel Ehrenberg reaches beyond science to a more metaphysical definition.
Read MoreParsnip Fries with Cocktails: Sublime!
In early spring, when it’s still cool enough to blast the oven, I make big batches of crisp, chewy, caramelized, amazingly satisfying parsnip fries.
Read MoreYoko Ono Made Bottles of Night Air into Poetry (+ a Song)
These bottles of Night Air by Yoko Ono remind us of the jar of air we brought back from Ireland, to capture and remember that exact time and place…and air.
Read MoreHow to Be a Friend to Yourself (with Fab Tiny Playlist)
We really like School of Life’s potent little video, How To Be a Friend to Yourself, something MANY people we know have a hard time doing. We made a tiny playlist to go with it.
Read MoreGarden Mirror Illusion Expands the Lush, Green of Amster Yard (And Yours)
In NYC’s hidden landmark, Amster Yard, is an extraordinary optical illusion: a mirror framed inside an overgrown arch to evoke expansive garden beyond. An idea to steal.
Read MoreHow to Sing Your Ecstatic Song (Tom Ashcraft + Walt Whitman)
In this video, artist and radio astronomer, Tom Ashcraft echoes Walt Whitman in describing the awe and wonder to be found in the everyday
Read MoreMakeshift Mortars and Pestles Make Sublime Walnut Pesto (and Other Delicious Things)
Although a real mortar and pestle is a lovely tool to have, you can achieve their rounded flavors and elemental textures with makeshift ones. Take this Walnut Pesto, for example…
Read MoreWarren Buffett’s 10-Year Bet Yields Essential Lessons in Investing In Unsettling Times
Warren Buffett’s Annual Letter provides timely counsel for the ordinary investor in our unsettling economic times. We’ve learned a lot from it, especially this year’s.
Read MoreComputer Screens are Hurting Our Eyes; Trees Can Heal Them
Computer vision syndrome is the narrowing of vision that reading off flat screens, handhelds and desktops cause without our even realizing it. Here’s a cure.
Read MoreTimelapse Wonder of a Seed Sprouting: ‘Each Beginning Is the End of Waiting’ (Hope Jahrens)
‘Miraculous’ is what we think as watch a bean valiantly push through the soil to bloom into a full-grown plant in this lovely video. This revelatory hunk we found in Hope Jahren’s Lab Girl is a perfect accompaniment.
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