A therapist friend emailed a surprising article from the Harvard Business Review. Several weeks into the pandemic, it is one of the most helpful things I’ve read.
Read MoreEscape to Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s Casa Azul
Transported via the virtual tour of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s Casa Azul in Mexico City, we found ourselves wandering through gardens, studios and living spaces: much-needed escape and delight.
Read MoreA Designer’s DIY No-Sew Origami Mask + The Best Materials to Use UPDATE
Frustrated by conflicting information, we distilled info about face masks for Coronavirus prevention. And found a clever no-sew design you can make.
Read MoreNew Yorker’s Coronavirus Cartoons are Funny, Wise and Curiously Comforting
These New Yorker cartoons describe the peculiar brand of anxiety that has become our weird shared experience. They give a much-needed sense of connectedness, AND levity…
Read MorePractical Ways to Alleviate Toilet Paper Anxiety and Hoarding
We’ve read a lot theories for the toilet paper hoarding that has marked the Coronavirus pandemic. We have a few of our own + viable alternatives.
Read More5 Short Fierce Statements that Help ‘Dig a Cave into the Future’
In the face of relentlessly bad news, I randomly came across some powerful statements that snapped me awake from the daze I found myself in. Maybe they will do the same for you.
Read More4-Minute Workout For Sheltering in Place (Like an Hour at the Gym)
This simple four-minute workout routine yields the same benefits as working out in the gym for an hour. It’s proving terrific exercise when sheltering in place due to the Coronavirus.
Read MoreUplift and Surprise Sparked by a Jane Hirshfield Poem
We’re loving Jane Hirschfeld’s wonderful poem I Wanted to Be Surprised. It is the lens through which we’ve been looking to discover uplifting…surprises…
Read MoreKey Lime or Lemon Hand Pies for Desperate Times
Wondering how could I quickly create the effect of great key lime (or lemon) pie without actually making a whole pie, I devised this delectable stripped-down hand pie, made of a few readily-available ingredients. Fast comfort for desperate times.
Read MoreA Healer’s Simple, Powerful Immune System Boost
Years ago, I learned a simple recipe for boosting my immune system from a legendary homeopathic doctor. He swore by it, and I’ve come to too. I’ve been drinking it twice daily since the fierce virus scare started and each time, feel its strengthening effect.
Read More5 Hopeful Views that Counter Coronovirus Fear (Science and Art)
Over the past week, I’ve been collecting information and video that yield heartening-yet-realistic views of the frightening situation we are experiencing together, from wise-men scientists explaining the science, to singers joining together virtually to serenade the world.
Read MoreSir Patrick Stewart Reads Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116, Soothing Reminder of Love in Anxious Times
Sir Patrick Stewart chose Shakespeare’s sublime Sonnet 116 to read in this fearful time. Utterly soothing, affirming, beautiful.
Read MoreWe imagine things...that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it.Joan Didion
A Poem to Transform the Pandemic
We had not heard of poet Lynn Ungar before we saw her poem Pandemic. It offers a deeply affirming way to view this “strange and terrible” time, referencing an ancient practice.
Read MoreQuarantined, Italians are Singing out of their Windows + Mary Oliver
As grim notices come in announcing closings and suspensions due to the Coronavirus, we saw THIS video from Italy and had to smile, heartened…
Read More“I am Art”, A Rhapsodic Proclamation about Art and Making
In a 2012 talk at AIGA, Zach Lieberman, cofounder of the School for Poetic Computation, read the short, powerful ‘I Am Art’ out loud. It is one of the most astonishing and rhapsodic proclamations of art-making we’ve seen and totally nails the exhilaration art brings.
Read MoreToni Morrison: What to Do In Times of Dread
On the great instagram Nitch, we found an excerpt from an essay Toni Morrison wrote for the Nation in 2015. It seems an extraordinarily fitting message for THIS very dark time.
Read MoreRobert Macfarlane on Trees and Long Love
Over our transom came this moving piece from Underland: a Deep Time Journey by British naturalist Robert Macfarlane. We’ve written before about his remarkable ability to connect us to nature, landscape, heart…
Read MoreThomas Ashcraft’s Hopeful Reminder in Fearful Times
Over the years, artist-scientist Thomas Ashcraft has made artful iterations of a message that we’ve found deeply heartening. Especially so now, in this anxious time…
Read MoreDIY Hand and Object Sanitizers to Combat Nasty Viruses UPDATE
When we found hand sanitizers sold out everywhere, we did some research to find ways to achieve what commercial hand-sanitizers would, along with a few other strategies for killing that nasty coronavirus.
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