…Another amazing post from Anne Herbert at Peace and Love and Noticing the Details. Whether you believe in God, or some sort of higher power, or not, she really got the gist: …the solutions that we are so sure are the right ones or the only ones, often aren’t…best to not insist, because we just…
Read MoreFling and Be Flung (Jackson Pollock)
Lately, we’ve noticed several odd and very expressive permutations of the word “fling”. Fling/flang/flung aren’t about flinging some THING across the room, but rather describe a PERSON being catapulted, by life…allowing ourselves to being flung, learning lessons, making discoveries, really living. First we read Anne Herbert’s wonderful post in Peace, Love and Noticing the Details:…
Read Moregoing from “can’t” to “can”
Last week, we read an amazing post by Anne Herbert at Peace, Love and Noticing the Details. She described the limited view we’ve been stricken with many times – and offered a simple way out. It is so perfectly and succinctly written, we’re quoting the whole thing right here: “I can’t do it. All the times I…
Read MoreMandy Patinkin’s Prayer While Feeding the Dog + Blessings from John O’Donahue and Bob Dylan
From his retreat at his upstate cabin, legendary actor Mandy Patinkin sings in Hebrew as gets his dog Becky’s food for her. We were surprised to discover that what he is singing is a prayer. And that got us thinking about blessings to accompany simple tasks of daily life.
Read Morecinder block houses + studios (via alexander calder)
For the past few years, we’ve been learning about how beautiful concrete blocks can be as a building material. The latest “lesson” came with a visit to the late Alexander Calder’s home in Connecticut for a birthday party for his daughter, who is a friend of ours. An artist who worked in a wide variety of…
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