What if the future of well-being is about “tipping the scales in the world away from fear and toward love”? asks On Being’s Krista Tippett in The Future of Well-Being. This simple premise feels like a guidepost for navigating the extraordinary elevation of fear the past years have brought, wrought by the pandemic, politics fueled by animosity, climate change. We were particularly struck by the idea of “microdosing of well-being”.
Read MoreUplifting Finds, Visual Poetry, Tender Blessing
Like the I.C.U. nurse in the breathtaking image, above, we are looking for refreshment, air, and sky. Here’s what we found…
Read MoreBenediction for Living a Creative Life, from John O’ Donohue
A reader wrote that she has poet John O’ Donohue’s benediction tacked on her fridge to remind her to “let my work feed and refresh me”. Which is what it does for us, mightily.
Read MoreBenediction for an Ordinary Day (John O’Donohue)
Some of the best blessings, benedictions and well-wishes we know can be found in Irish poet John O’Donohue’s book, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom, like this one for an ordinary day.
Read MoreBenediction for a New Year on an Ordinary Day (Neil Gaiman)
Every year around the holidays, we publish blessings and benedictions in keeping with the spirit of day. Why not have benedictions for ordinary times?
Read MoreWe Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day, with a Navajo Blessing
A number of cities now observe Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples Day, in honor of the people who inhabited America before Columbus. We’re mindful of them both, while turning to this Navajo blessing to celebrate a new day.
Read MoreA New Year’s Wish from Improvised Life
This print by Marc Johns says it all. For purchase here.
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