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Ellen Silverman on Creative Partnerships, Play and Letting the Unexpected Happen

Short, Powerful Instruction for an Alternative Possibility of Being

Playing in Frigid Times: Ice Lanterns and Globes

An Antidote to the Difficulties and Terrors We Face

Art Materials Can Be Weapons of Mass Destruction (Henry Taylor)

Woodie Guthrie’s New Year’s Resolutions That We’ll Take For Our Own

‘So much of any year is flammable’: Naoma Shihab Nye’s perfect poem for the New Year

Our Practice for the Last Week of the Year

A Surrealist’s Typewriter Holiday Card (Happy Holidays from Improvised Life)

Music Break From All the Holiday Action: Sonnymoon

Holiday Decorations for Lazy People

Unique, Cheap, Full-of-Wonder Last Minute Gift: Improvised Life

Alt Universe We Want to Inhabit

Write Guest’s Names On Their Glasses (And Save Your Sanity)

Improvised Life’s Not Shopping Holiday Gift Guide

Su Tung Po Shouts Across a Thousand Years

Classic Chicken Liver Pate + An Artfully Lightened Version after Michel Guerard

Houdini Unbound: How A Novel Changed Its Author’s Life

2 Posters About Peace, One You Can Buy

Liana Finck Makes Beautiful Interiors Out of Cast-Off Furniture

Zach Lieberman’s Poetry of Code + A Six Year Old’s Astonishing Words to Live By

Sublime Murmuration of Starlings, ‘The Great Scarf of Birds’ (Updike)

How To Have Your Cake and Serve It Too (Fran Black’s Revelation)

Productivity Principle: Doing Nothing Can Help Get Things Done

Ideas from Artists: Gift Boxes with Jazzy Interiors

Mary Oliver’s New Anthology Devotions: Hymns to Possibility

Abdullah Ibrahim: How Improvisation Saves My Life

Guest Post: Harriet Bell’s Mom’s Vegetable Soup

How to Signal ‘Angry’ Without Blowing Your Top

Metallic Checkerboard Floors + a Trick for Visualizing Pattern Painted Floors

Irving Penn’s Lesson in Setting Boundaries

Leonardo da Vinci’s Affirmations to Counter Failure (Including a Wild Kitchen Fiasco)

Bob Dylan’s Blessing

Improvised Life’s Thanksgiving Toolkit

Wake UP with Jumpin Jive + the Nicholas Brothers ‘Pure Genius’ Dance

Essential Recipe: Simple Roasted Pears Morph Into Dazzling Desserts

Random Surprise: Groucho’s Spiritual Practice + Pattern Synchronicity

Edward Gorey on the Unexpected in Creative Projects + Morning Mantra

Rocks and Stones Make Endlessly Useful Tools and Beautiful Objets

Find Bargains and Illumination at Benefit Art Auctions (+ a Trove of Cool Art)

The Lost Words’ Evoke Our Wild Landscape

Allen Ginsberg’s Meditation Instruction

Courage in a Bottle and Elsewhere…

Annals of Bad Design: Bigbelly Garbage Can

Laura Owens’ Liberating Take on Talent, Mistakes and Finding A Space of Personal Freedom

Artists and Writers on Unexpected Ways Trees Impact Us

Pumpkin Seed Sauce for Shrimp, Fish, Pork, Chips, Eggs…

Ideas from Artists: Parallel Mirrors Become Infinity Windows

Sage Advice from Moondog

Antidotes for the Latest Terror Attack (Samuel Beckett and Salmon Rushdie)

Halloween: Inspiration, Scary Stuff, Song

Poetry of Falling and Flying in a Magical Choreography with Trampoline

Rustic Bean Ragout with Many Embellishments

2 Minute Lessons from Therapy from Really Creative People

Disappear Visual Clutter with Uniform Cardboard Boxes a la Laura Handler + Andy Warhol)

Move Beyond Intellect to Poetic Encounter

To Bend To Not Break (Cecile Belmont)

Weekend Playlist: All of Leonard Cohen’s Music in Chronological Order

2 Essential Heartening Messages from Yoko Ono

Blind Master Card Magician Richard Turner: Play the Cards You’re Dealt

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