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ideas from artists mindset poems quotes

Useful Ideas about Paths We Find Ourselves On (Richard Long, Buson, Trungpa Rimpoche)

As we navigate our life, remarkable works on the theme of “paths” by artist Richard Long got us thinking and stumbling on some serious wisdom…

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diy inspiration mindset poems productivity/work quotes technology

Brilliance: Email Signature with a Poem Attached

Today I got an email from a Rachel Fleishman, a therapist I met recently. Attached to the usual email signature with her name and link to her website, was a short poem by Antonio Machado in tiny print. Ahhhh…such a swell idea: to send along some image-producing/light-bearing poetry, or a particularly great quote, that would surprise…

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creative process ideas from artists mindset nature paths + processes poems

So Many Pathways At Any Given Moment

This morning we ready this haiku by Buson:        Coming back— so many pathways        through the spring grass. Only nine words, it has been resonating all day

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blogs + sites creative process mindset paths + processes poems rules for living tools/wares

looking for a poem, it found me (how answers come)

Here’s the kind of thing that happens all the time around here: I was looking at a stack of poetry books — my morning reading — for a poem to post for a shift of view. I flipped through Gary Snyder, Su Tung Po, Pablo Neruda, then got distracted by an email. It was from…

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