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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

David Hockney and Joni Mitchell Instagram “Opens Up Our Vision to What is Possible”

Video Conference (and Cocktails) with Your Clan

Opened at Random: All the Light We Cannot See (How Light Comes From Darkness)

The Remarkable Last Question in Barbara Hammer’s End-of-Life Exit Interview

Instructions from Mary Oliver

Thomas Merton’s “Small Message of Hope”

Francis Alys’ Magnetic Shoes, “Walking is a Kind of Resistance”

Extraordinary Words on Ordinary Things

Miracle of Transformation: An Easy Way to LactoFerment Foods at Home

Envelope Poems are Amazing to Receive (Rumi + Emily Dickinson)

Because Something is Invisible Doesn’t Make It Any Less Fun

Annals of Found Art: “To See that Pebbles are Miraculous” (Josef Albers)

How to Read a Heart (Anne Herbert)

Ecumenical Money Valentine to Give to Lovers AND Friends

By viewing time as something incredibly delicious, would we feel like we have more of it?

‘One Breath Around the World’s Transcendent 3 Minutes with Whales

On Being Prepared For Joy: Iridescent Readiness (Christian Wyman)

Please Take Your Shoes Off! What’s Really On the Bottom of Your Shoes

How To Change a Negative Habit

Perspective: Politics 75 Years Ago, via The New Yorker

Macfarlane’s Remarkable Twitter Feed: Flashes of Illumination about Landscape and the Human Heart

We Enter the Woods without Leaving Where We Are (Wendell Berry)

How to Do Nothing (Jenny Odell)

Henry Miller’s Bathroom “A Voyage of Ideas”

Opened at Random: Why We Sleep, Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

The ‘Delicate Cages’ of A Stranger’s Hands (Robert Bly)

What Maurice Sendak Discovered About Aging and His Tender Blessing

Why Napping Is Essential to Well-Being and How To Do It (with Haiku)

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