While reflecting on the year gone by, I came across a unique way New Years can transform that is far more powerful than the usual resolutions.
Read MoreMay You Go Easy, To Be Filled with Light, and To Shine (Mary Oliver)
This poem by Mary Oliver expresses our wishes for you this wild season:
Read MoreMeaningful Last Minute Gifts You Don’t Have to Shop For
If you’re as behind the curve as we are in getting our heads around the holidays, here are two much-appreciated gifts you don’t have to shop for:
Read MoreFavorite Gifts I Love To Give
Late with my holiday preparations, I’m just wrapping my head around making food gifts as well as the few gifts I buy. Here’s are favorites that you still have time to order.
Read MoreLollypop Menorah Near Vegas is a Lesson in Free Association (Gary Snyder, Freud)
Artist Ugo Rondinone’s Seven Magic Mountains, fluorescently-painted 32-foot-high totems in the desert outside Vegas, reveal the poetry of free association…
Read MoreExperience Heightened Well-Being via the Primal Scent of Christmas Trees
Biologist David George Haskell’s explanation of what the primal scent from Christmas trees actually does to us will amplify your experience of this lovely free gift of the holidays.
Read MoreCool, Graphical Masking Tape Decorations for Walls, Cards, Wrapping
“I haven’t done a thing to get ready for the holidays” is an echo I’ve heared from many people I know. No matter. There’s always ways to festive things up at the last minute, with whatever is on hand.
Read MoreHow to Find Nothing But Poems in the Course of Your Day
At poet Ocean Vuong’s tumblr, we found this mind-shifting post…
Read MoreSecrets of a Divine Egg Salad Sandwich from Harlem’s Premiere Caterer
Although I cooked professionally for decades, I somehow never got how great an egg salad sandwich could be I tasted Amuse Bouche’s AND learned their secrets…
Read MoreTopography of Tears: Like Aerial Views of Emotional Terrain
Looking at tears through a microscope, artist Rose-Lynn Fisher found no two alike, evidence of our inner life overflowing its boundaries, spilling over into consciousness.
Read MoreHow a Cheap Wig and Selfies Revealed Another Possible Self
A few years ago, I bought a cheap, silvery wig on Amazon for $13. It would prove to be a mighty catalyst for change…
Read More“I like to be like a big oak tree”: Willie Stargell via Mister Rogers
Sublime: the first 25 seconds of this Mister Rogers’ interview with Pittsburgh Pirate baseball player Willie Stargell.
Read MoreOpened at Random: Flights (Olga Tokarczuk) “…the engine that drives changes”
This morning we opend Flights at random and found this…
Read MoreFavorite Things: Really Big Cotton Dish Towels
We’ve used these these HUGE dish towels for many things in addition to drying dishes…
Read MoreWarhol’s Oxidation Painting: Alchemy of Metallic Paint, Great Eye and a Surprising Catalyst
Wandering through the Warhol retrospective at the Whitney yesterday, I was stopped dead by a remarkable 17-foot long abstract canvas I hadn’t seen before, made with materials I’d never considered…
Read MoreBrian Eno’s Early Handwritten Oblique Strategies Cards Inspire Our Own
Brian Eno’s original set of handwritten oblique strategies cards designed to break creative impasses made us wonder about making our own…
Read MoreBalancing Advice from Thích Nhất Hạnh
When we read this remarkable quote from Thích Nhất Hạnh, first we thought, What great advice for caregivers. Then we thought, What great advice for being with anyone…
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