As always, we are taking the week between Christmas and New Year’s off. It’s a time to slow way down and reflect on the rough year that’s passed and on the new one we are about to begin, starting with this question from Yoko Ono…
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How Much Of Care is Patience? and Other Questions (Chloe Bass)
Compelling signs have appeared in St. Nicholas Park in Harlem, part of the exhibition “Wayfinding” by conceptual artist Chloe Bass. Each asks a powerful question to carry into the week…
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Buckminster Fuller’s Question for Finding Your Life’s Mission
In the course of our random reading, we love coming upon surprising questions that we can mull during the week to see what answers, information or mindshifts emerge. Our current favorite is from a story about Buckminster Fuller…
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9 Answers to Krista Tippett’s Powerful Interview Question Inspire Our Own
This short video compiles some very surprising answers to On Being’s Krista Tippet’s favorite interview question. It evokes “a very fertile place in everybody’s imaginations, whatever their story is…full of questions and searching and softness.” It’s a wonderful question to ask ourselves…
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Powerful Questions About Personal Expression Sparked by W.S. Merwin’s Garden Time (Consider Journal)
At #Consider Journal, a remarkable post ranges from W.S. Merwin’s last book to the “cyclical effect of nature and art” to the bigger question of how our expression might come to resonate in bigger ways.
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Garrett Bradley’s Big Question Transforms Each Day
When we saw this image from New Orleans-based filmmaker Garrett Bradley, we thought: that is a perfect exhortation to start the day. Then we read THIS:
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Brené Brown’s Life Changing Question: Do You Believe People Are Doing the Best They Can?
When Brené Brown asked herself, ‘Do you believe people are doing the best they can? ‘ she admits to answering ‘Fuck no!’ until she explored it further, which yielded pure, transformative gold.
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Ikigai: “What Makes You Jump Out of Bed in the Morning? and Other Questions That Will Help You Find It
When a friend sent us VENN diagrams of the Japanese concept of Ikigai last week, we found we couldn’t get its big fat question out of our mind.
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The Big Fat, Very Essential Question in Neil Gaiman’s Wise Words
As ever, Neil Gaiman nails it. But there’s a big fat, very essential question buried in his wonderful words…
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The Remarkable Last Question in Barbara Hammer’s End-of-Life Exit Interview
An end-of-life “Exit Interview” is in itself a remarkable and startling thing to undertake. No less the answer to the last question.
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A Powerful Question that Cuts Through the Noise
We invite you to ask this question when editing your life down to what is really important, including where you spend your time —and money— online.
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We are Still Living with Barbara Kruger’s Questions
Artist Barbara Kruger’s iconic 1990 mural is an artwork for today, and offers an essential lesson about difficult questions.
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Questions that Transform Difficult Situations (Jack Kornfield)
At the height of a crisis, a friend sent us this hugely helpful excerpt from Jack Kornfield’s wise book about becoming at ease with the difficulties of life.
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Asking This Question Every Day Expands Your Sense of Time
Everybody I know, no matter what age or where they live, complains about how fast they feel time flying. Here’s a way to slow it down.
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John Cage’s Clarifying Question About Good and Bad Taste
John Cage’s question of taste is curiously liberating. It helps to gently soften our rote opinions and view of ‘ugly’, making us see more possibilities.
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Ask This Simple Question to Disarm Your Self-Critical Inner Voice
We found a lovely, simple way to reframe those big existential questions everyone seems to ask themselves about whether they are enough…
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Clarifying Questions to Start Every Day
Over the past few months at Swiss-Miss, we found two related ideas that really hit home and made us think hard about what we really want.
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John Cage’s Transformative “Question of Taste”
You can open John Cage’s A Year from Monday anywhere and find a snippet that will turn your head around. Like this clarifying view of TASTE, and the opinions about style that are so much a part of modern life:
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A Performance Coach’s Questions to Ask in the New Year
Kate Conklin coaches performers, athletes and thinkers to help them work better and excel. In this TEDx talk, she describes her unexpected path from studying traditional Bulgarian singing to investigating big questions about the creative life. They are well worth asking in the New Year.
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Lego’s Questionable Values Denies Ai Weiwei Art Materials
(Video link here.) We just heard the astonishing news that Lego, a company whose product we have featured numerous times as a symbol of possibility, has refused to fill a large order of its plastic bricks — an art material — for Chinese artist’s Ai Weiwei upcoming exhibition at in Australia. Their reason: They don’t provide bricks…
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