Eggs are an ancient symbol of new life emerging, which is what Spring and Easter are all about. So here is our compendium of our favorite egg strategies, both to eat and to decorate. Photographer Tessa Traeger took the beautiful image at top; her portfolio of gorgeous egg photographs is, in itself, a wondrous Ode to the egg…
Read MoreWhy Not Art in the Closet and On the Floor?
Bombarded by imagery all day at work, Sam Shadid, the renowned mastermind behind ads for Calvin Klein and Banana Republic, prefers an ultra-minimalist home with the feel of a luxe high-design hotel room. It was recently featured in a slideshow in The Times’ T Magazine. Although we find his sensibility crazy-austere, we LOVE a couple of…
Read MoreReflecting on Difficulty: 5 Questions that Transform
At the height of a recent crisis a few months ago, our friend Chris Eldredge send me this note: I’ve been reading Jack Kornfield’s “A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life” and saw this. I thought it might interest you. ( I changed a bit of the wording where…
Read MoreWines to Drink with Easter/Spring Dinner, via Anthony Giglio
We’ve long relied on our friend Anthony Giglio for advice on wine-and-food pairings. Here are a handful of Anthony’s “Pasqua Picks” to pour with any roast on Easter, chosen with help from his friends at Super Buy Rite Wines & Liquor in his hometown of Jersey City, New Jersey.
Read MoreStage Your Own Balloon Invasion, Installation, Party Decoration
When we saw artist Charles Pétillon‘s magical installation “Balloon Invasion” —architectural spaces and landscapes spilling with white, inflated balloons — we thought “What an instantly surprising, fun, inexpensive way to totally transform a space”, for a party or otherwise. (Video link here.)
Read MoreTo Leap is Often to FLY (Lissette Solórzano)
This wondrous image by photographer Lissette Solórzano reminds us that to leap is often a way to FLY. It seems just right for the first day of April when all sorts of new enterprises are afoot in the natural world… …ours too, if we just say yes…
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