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While We’re Away, Here’s How to See Everything Ever Posted on Improvised Life Over 10 Years

Taking a Break to Do Nothing Is Necessary for Doing Something

Dept of Astonishment: Listen to The Sound of a ‘Waterfall’ Made By Millions of Butterflies

The Secret to Artist Constantino Nivola’s Sublime Painted Floors

Tacita Dean’s Trees: Ideas Fueled by Openness to Chance, Accident, Poetic Associations

Running With Wild Horses Redux (Commentary by Virginia Wolfe)

Vivianne Westwood’s Activist Fashion for Personal Power and Global Change

Bucatini with Ramps, Olive Oil and Parmigiano Reggiano to Celebrate the Wildest Food of Spring

Annals of Anonymous Art: Heart Writ in Cherry Blossoms (with Haiku)

Want to Be a Digital Story Teller or Launch an App or Product? Join Me at Omega Institute’s Digital Age Conference

Dominique Nabokov’s As-is, Not-Styled, REAL Paris Living Rooms Are a Joy

Jean Cocteau’s Catalyzing 2-line Psychotherapy Lesson

Clouds in Art and Daily Life, ‘Their Contemplation Benefits the Soul’

Beth Moon’s Photographs of Ancient Trees Under Night Skies are Magic

The Very Best Letter of Love or Apology when Words Won’t Do It (H.C. Westermann)

We Edited Our Instagram to Be a Tool of Illumination and Found Wild Poetry

Listening to the Spirit of the Tools We Use (Tim McCreight)

Mister Rogers: What is Essential is Invisible to the Eye

Floating Blossoms in a Tiny Indoor Pond (Su Tung Po)

Benediction for Living a Creative Life, from John O’ Donohue

Cool Private Spaces Where On Kawara’s Date Paintings Reside

Bring a Little Piece of Nature Into the Home, Heart, Day (Yoko Ono, Max Lamb)

This Serene Water Opera Echoes Music Made by Whales

Solt’s Concrete Poem About Spring Celebrates Its Joyful Essence

Matisse’s 13 Sketches, 13 Prayers, Before Painting ‘The Dream’

White Sneakers are Your Blank Canvas for Graffiti and Dalmation Spots (DIY)

Seinfeld on Why Things Make You Happy or Not (and Why He Loves Advertising)

Chandelier from 1980’s Berlin and Alexander Calder “On the Cutting Edge of Architectural Experimentation”

Give it up. Go bare. Go free. Accept Your Shelf Life As Given (Guest Post)

A Lesson in ‘Right Now’ From A Tree, Stonehouse and The New Yorker

Alice B. Toklas’ Asparagus in Salt & Pepper Whipped Cream “A Thing of Beauty”

Shoelaces with Messages (Not Logos) and Where to Get ‘Em

Don’t Know What You’re Doing and Think Everyone Else Has It All Together?

Opened at Random: The Book of Joy “Setting an Intention for the Day”

A Magic Pill to Cure Stress

At 85, Madhur Jaffrey Goes Gansta Sexy and Fierce

Running With Wild Horses (W.S. Merwin)

Clever Bookcases Made of Stacked Boxes

A Secret Balm for Fear and Anxiety

‘When Everything in the World Has Been Lost But Soon We Will Find It Again’ (W.S. Merwin)

Cracked Coriander is the New Pepper

When An Artist Fails as a Person, Is Their Work Invalid?

Frances McDormand On Aging, Facelifts,and the Roadmap that is our Face

4-Minute At-Home Workout for When You Can’t Get to the Gym or Need a Lift

Trisha Brown’s Effortless Flow

Ada Limon’s Breathtaking Reading of “Instructions for Not Giving Up”

Yoko Ono’s Cleaning Pieces for the First Day of Spring

Learning to See Through Their Brushstrokes and Their Paint (Francis Alÿs, Matisse)

What We Do When We’ve Done Everything We Can and Feel We Should Do More (Chris Eldredge, Pat Steir)

In Memory of W.S Merwin: Life as Spontaneous Poetry

Opened at Random: A Field Guide to Getting Lost (How to Be Rich in Loss)

Write Messages and Poems Instantly In Katie Holten’s Tree Alphabet

Combine Summer Camp Pleasures with Personal Growth (and Digital Empowerment)

The Big Fat, Very Essential Question in Neil Gaiman’s Wise Words

How Wigs Changed My Life (Fran Black)

Maira Kalman On Wandering, Trees, Obituaries, Museums, Not Knowing, and Falling in Love with Small Things

Karl Lagerfeld’s Inspired Ideas

Random Wisdom: Let’s Be Like Rivers

Mallomar, the Seasonal, Interactive, Pop Culture Cookie

Trees Ordained as Monks, Forest Bathing and A New Lexicon Helps Heal our Connection to the Natural World

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