Photographer Ellen Silverman has been sending us images of perspective-shifting signs she’s found on the streets of Paris, where she’s taking a breather. We especially love that someone took the time to scribble ‘look at the sky’ on a random piece of plywood that appears to be hiding among construction work. It is a fine…
Read MoreOur recent Facebook post about alternative ways to meditate got a lot of hits. Its single line —’Can’t sit still when you meditate?: try turning everyday actions into a practice’ — told us that there are A LOT of people who have trouble sitting and meditating. So we thought we’d elaborate. The solution is an…
Read MoreDavid Saltman over at The Houdini File spotted this image on The Art of Kung Fu’ facebook with the comment: Whenever you say “I can’t do it”, think of this photo. All martial arts, including tai chi, are about practice…a lifetime of practice to gain mastery… …And mastery of ANYTHING is about practice, perservering in the…
Read MoreThree years ago, we posted about Anne Herbert, the mysterious writer of Peace and Love and Noticing the Details, a blog that presented haiku-like shifts of view of the the most ordinary things. Herbert is also known for having come up with the brilliant, radical philosophy: ‘Practice Random Kindness & Senseless Acts of Beauty‘, which eventually…
Read MoreThis has been QUITE a year and we’re taking this week to reflect and look back (while we look forward). We start with this image of Nik Wallenda walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls from The Big Picture’s The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2012; we often feel like that, in our own small way. We love Google’s…
Read MoreCharlotte, Daniel, Olivia, Josephine, Ana, Dylan, Madeline, Catherine, Chase, Jesse, James, Grace, Emilie, Jack, Noah, Caroline, Jessica, Benjamin, Avielle, Allison… When President Obama said those names aloud today during his moving speech at Newtown, our hearts broke, again. We found ourselves comforted by the words-gone-viral of kindly old Fred Rogers —Mr. Rogers — advocate and true friend of children for eons. It is our experience that there are…
Read MoreLast Friday, after 5 days of living without power, ‘the improvised life’s assistant Dese’Rae L. Stage sent us this email: I don’t think I even realized it until yesterday, when I had to jump through 10 hoops just to get ice and dinner. I was like, “god, I’m exhausted,” and it took me a second…
Read MoreAt the Corner Perk Cafe in Bluffton, SC, an anonymous donor pays for the coffee of anyone in line behind them until the funds run out. Two years ago this idea caught on and now people donate regularly, or even stop by to donate without buying anything. It made us wonder about the principle of…
Read MorePatrick Martinez’s neon sign made us think. We believe strongly in building… …but if you aren’t building… are you destroying? OR…
Read MoreRead a Valentine heart shape from top to bottom. and it says the two can become one. Read it from bottom to top, and it says the one can become two with the two still connected. Read a Valentine heart shape as a whole, and it says wholeness is a place to live with room…
Read MoreTwo recent bits of brilliance by the mysterious Anne Herbert of Peace and Love and Noticing the Details. Related posts: xanne herbert’s wise + teeny meditations going from “can’t” to “can” fling and be flung (jackson pollock) ann herbert: unaccumulateann herbert: unaccumulate insoluable problem -> interesting solution a reminder, via anne herbert (open doors!)
Read More(Video link here.) An old friend of ours used to say “God has put two kinds of doctors on earth: those who help us die and those who prevent us from living.” Katherine who is in the video above understands this well. As a hospice worker and then a hospice patient, she’s seen both sides…
Read MoreRelated posts: what is the most powerful word in the english language? bathroom read: john cage’s “a year from monday” yes a reminder, via anne herbert (open doors!) healing worry (via anne herbert) random wisdom, overheard anne herbert’s wise + teeny meditations fling and be flung (jackson pollock)
Read Morevia Reference Library Related posts: healing worry (via Anne Herbert) ‘changing thoughts, changing future’ (nannucci) the power of uncertainty -> ‘delicious ambiguity’ think-make-think what is the most powerful word in the english language?
Read MoreFrom the great Anne Herbert at Peace and Love and Noticing the Materials: “It’s insoluable! Yay! That means there will be a really interesting solution.” Related posts: a reminder, via anne herbert (open doors!) healing worry (via anne herbert) what to do when things don’t go as planned random wisdom, overheard anne herbert’s wise + teeny…
Read MoreOur friend Maureen Rolla sent us an email with two poems by her friend Don Wentworth, editor of the Lilliput Review, a print magazine dedicated to the short poem. They are from his recently released book Past All Traps. It was as though Maureen had dropped gifts into our laps. The first, above, about seeing…
Read More“We remembered how to grow fast, and it became Spring.” –Anne Herbert, Peace and Love and Noticing the Details
Read MoreAnne Herbert of Peace and Love and Noticing the Details is great at overhearing perfect snippets of conversation as she wanders around her city. Here are two recent favorites: “It’s a super-duper-duper long shot, but I got nothing else to do, so why not?” … “No, if I make it, we both make it. You’ve…
Read MoreOn an “ordinary” day, we found this photo in our Inbox, with a note: “A big fat sign and reminder of what’s important on a beautiful fall day.” And soon after, we found this post by Anne Herbert at Peace and Love and Noticing the Details: “I’m thankful that the morning sky is skidding across…
Read MoreRelated posts: How to Find a Hidden Solution Anne Herbert: Unaccumulate Going from Can’t to Can Anne Herbert’s Wise and Teeny Meditations
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