When we stumbled on this image by the great Christoph Niemann at #abstractsunday, we thought: OMG, look at that fabulous doorway. What a vision! How can we get ourselves to imagine more expansively? And that got us thinking about the creative vision and where ideas come from.
Read MoreDon’t Know What You’re Doing and Think Everyone Else Has It All Together?
We’ve lost count of the times we’ve thought “We don’t know what we are doing!” We got some perspective from 4th-century Chinese Taoist philosopher/poet Chuang Tzu…
Read MoreOn Being Prepared For Joy: Iridescent Readiness (Christian Wyman)
In a snippet from a long interview, poet Christian Wyman asks and answers: Can one really just decide to be more joyful?
Read MoreHow to Edit Your Life (Werner Herzog)
When guest-contributor David Saltman met filmmaker Werner Herzog, he found him full of amazingly on-point advice…
Read MoreZoe Leonard on Why Her 1992 Poem “I Want a President” Stays Viral
When this astonishing image came over our email transom today, its force and clarity stopped us in our tracks. 25+ after she wrote it, artist Zoe Leonard refines its message.
Read MoreHow a Cheap Wig and Selfies Revealed Another Possible Self
A few years ago, I bought a cheap, silvery wig on Amazon for $13. It would prove to be a mighty catalyst for change…
Read MoreAn Astonishing Poem of Instructions for Eating Persimmons and of Course, Way More
‘Persimmons’ tells a number of tiny stories, and lovely, very precise instruction about chosing and eating persimmons, which are in season now. It is one of the most remarkable poems I’ve read.
Read Morethe thrills and miracles of ‘mystery’ wine dinner parties
It’s exciting to open mystery wines that promised to be great once but have languished so long, it’s impossible to know if there’s something delicious inside. When one proves to be lovely, it’s like a little miracles has arrived.
Read MoreWhen Things Fall Apart, I Turn to This Powerful Survival Manual
As the challenge that appeared in my life recently continues, I turn daily to the best survival manual I know, and this passage in particular.
Read MoreHow Trees Can Teach Us What It Means to Be Whole
Why do we humans think we should survive with all parts intact, that only that is wholeness?
Read MoreFrom Opera to Improv: How Deborah Domanski Found Her True Voice
After years of singing professionally to great acclaim, Deborah Domanski found herself on an unexpected quest to find her true voice.
Read MoreAnnals of Found Art: Anonymous Side-by-Side Toilets Rival Duchamp and Cattelan
In a coffee shop restroom, we stumbled on a mind-blowing installation that rivaled Marcel Duchamp’s ground-breaking Fountain.
Read MorePema Chodron’s First Step in Dealing with Chaos
We photographed a page from Pema Chodron’s When Things Fall Apart years ago, only to rediscover its wisdom recently.
Read MoreAllen Ginsberg’s Advice for People Who Are Not Quite Sure How Far to Go
This morning we opened Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews by poet Allen Ginsberg and found his incredibly wise words of advice…
Read MoreMister Rogers’ for Adults
We came to the extraordinary Fred Rogers late, after watching Mister Rogers for Adults, a brilliant series of 1-minute videos from his show, that convey his unique philosophy of love.
Read MoreSome of the Most Beautiful Sentences in Literature are Like Poems
When we read 50 Of The Most Beautiful Sentences In Literature, we felt like we were reading poems, each one complete unto itself.
Read More10 Ways to Deepen Conversation + the Crap Advice You Should Forget (Celeste Headlee)
We’ve found employing Celeste Headlee’s 10 principles for having a better conversation really DO take the conversation farther. Here they are, including the Crap Advice she advises you forget.
Read MoreWhere to Go with Hope or Anxiety
A Monument for the Anxious and Hopeful at NYC’s Rubin Museum is a powerful interactive display of visitor’s anxieties and hopes. As is this strategy for navigating them.
Read MoreSnow Day: ‘Why, How, Whence Such Beauty and What the Meaning’ (Mary Oliver)
When I went into the blizzard sweeping the East Coast, I was surprised to find so many people hanging out or happily at work on all sorts of creations…Mary Oliver’s poem came to mind.
Read MoreWhen I Deleted My News Feed My Day Got Longer and Calmer
Inspired by Farhad Manjoo’s revelatory NY Times article, I deleted the news feed on my phone to see if I could “have what Manjoo was having”: more free time, and a clearer head.
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