We’d never thought what a Valentine heart could mean beyond a general feeling and expression of romantic love until we read these words by the great Anne Herbert…
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Floating in the internet on an ancient, dormant site called yowow, we found the perfect blessing by the late Anne Herbert…
Read MoreWondrous Spinning Gif + Anne Herbert’s Inimitable Wisdom
We love this beauty of a gif from the great intepid gif-artist DVDP. It reminds us of the very wise words of the mysterious Anne Herbert:
Read More‘give happenings time to find themselves’ (anne herbert)
…from the alarmingly wise Anne Herbert of Peace and Love and Noticing the Miracles. Related posts: two mind-shifting quotes to start the day ‘don’t say yes. be yes.’ insoluable problem -> interesting solution a reminder, via anne herbert (open doors!) ann herbert: unaccumulate anne herbert’s wise + teeny meditations
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via Peace and Love and Noticing the Details
Read Morehealing worry (via anne herbert)
From the always illuminating Peace and Love and Noticing the Details…
Read Moreanne herbert’s wise + teeny meditations
Kevin Kelly recently wrote about Anne Herbert, a writer he knew in the early ’80’s who edited CoEvolution Quarterly, the companion magazine to Whole Earth Catalog. She is most known for coining the phrase, “Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.” Kelly hadn’t been in touch with her in all this time,…
Read MoreBird by Bird: Anne Lamott’s Instructions for Writing and LIFE
One of our favorite all time books about the creative process is Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. It is NOT just about writing, but is full of lessons about living creatively.
Read Morewhat to do when things don’t go as planned
Another insightful mind-expanding post from Anne Herbert of Peace and Love and Noticing the Details, quoted here in full because it is so perfect: Jack Nicholson, the actor, said he wished everyday life were like making a movie so when you messed up you could say, “Take two,” and have a whole other chance. “That’s…
Read Moreann herbert: unaccumulate
“The answer is zero. Let go of everything that can be let go of. Unaccumulate. Notice a new way of figuring out. If many places are held by nothing at all, more actions are possible. More actions are likely–all that room.” Anne Herbert’s blog Peace, Love and Noticing the Details continues to knock us out, remind…
Read MoreKevin Kelly’s 68 Bits of Seriously Good Advice
To celebrate his 68th birthday, Kevin Kelly compiled some of the gold he’s learned over his seven decades. The brilliant list provides a roadmap to wholeness and positivity.
Read MoreThe Immediacy Filter Helps Answer Yes or No
Just about every week, we find something useful in Kevin Kelly’s newsletter Recomendo, a handful of “cool stuff” from really smart people. The latest is The Immediacy Filter.
Read MoreVarieties of YES: A Zen View, John Cage, Mary Oliver, James Joyce and the Katz’s Deli Orgasm
Thirty + years ago, the world witnessed Meg Ryan’s perfection of a faked orgasm in Katz’s Deli, we’ve been thinking about great, transformative yeses we’ve written about or experienced.
Read MoreWords That Expand (or Contract) Your Universe of Possibilities
This photo of hunks of clay by Gentl and Hyers made us wonder: What are we going to make today? And then we found this hunk of wisdom…
Read MoreLove is Tiny Actions of Affection + Kindness
This lovely image and commentary Girl Knew York reminded us of the practice of applying “random kindness” not only to others but to ourselves, and Stephen Levine’s principle of “soft eyes”.
Read MoreAdvice for Monday: Simpler.
After a very busy LAST week, we let a few things slide over the weekend, and they will, no doubt, pile onto Monday’s to-do list, which will make it…daunting.
What to do?
Read MoreDesmond Tutu on “Random Kindness” and Becoming “Life Artists”
Over the years, we’ve written often about the great Anne Herbert, the extraordinary writer that long-ago coined the phrase “Practice Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty“, and the curious little book of that name that was published in the ’90’s. Long out-of-print, its charm and power continued to resonate, inspiring an updated edition, now…
Read MoreHow to Think in Haiku (and a Haiku about Grasses)
At the very end of May, we planted grasses in the planter on the Laboratory’s patio. Since then, they’ve grown like wild fire, along with the Morning Glory vine we plunked into their soil to further screen us from our neighbors. We love watching the grasses move in the breeze; they seem to constantly change…
Read MoreThe New 10 Commandments and A Few More
We recently came across this tweet from God, with a new set of refreshing and useful commandments. Equally compelling, were tweets sent in response with suggestions for additional commandments. Here are some favorites:
Read MoreWhat is the Opposite of Lack, Self-Criticism, Wishful Thinking?
Eagle-eyed Maria Robledo sent us this fab art work (sadly unattributed). We wonder who the wise person/artist is who so clearly expressed the sense of LACK we all so often feel, that goes with self-criticism and imagining perfect worlds that don’t exist. We wonder:
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