change

‘The Pandemic is a Portal’ Arundhati Roy

In this short, potent video, Arundhati Roy reads from her essay “The Pandemic is a Portal” It is at once a question to hold in mind, an invitation, and a call to arms.

How To Change a Negative Habit

Over the years, I’ve learned that change doesn’t happen over night, but it WILL happen if I practice these five steps…

One Year in 40 Seconds Is a Meditation on the Change Going On All Around Us (with Rumi + Rilke)

This lovely, short, time-lapse video is a meditative reminder that the world is doing its creative thing around us, the only constant is change.

A Cool Tiny Video About the Thresholds that Trigger Change

This tiny, funny, illuminating poem of a film shows everyday objects in the moments of tension — the thresholds — before they fall apart, spring, light, snap together… As we watched it, we couldn’t help thinking of ourselves.

Ai Weiwei: ‘To Make Some Change Requires Some Level of Fighting’

This video and quote from Chinese artist/activist Ai Weiwei’s present a challenging and clarifying view for navigating our world and lives.

This Shining Moment in the NOW

There’s a sweet hiatus between summer and fall in the few weeks after Labor Day when the sky promises to be blue forever and only a dozen, drifting, saffron leaves hint of soon-to-be barren branches. Before moving to a ramshackle farm tucked away on a tiny island in the Pacific Northwest last year, seasons were meaningless. Here, Nature knocks and you listen…

In a Life Change? Making a Spreadsheet Can Help

A friend has been mulling a geographic: moving elsewhere in the hopes of creating more of the life she wants. Since there are quite a few variables she needs to consider, she made an Excel spreadsheet to capture basic info about the places on her radar. It got us thinking about making a spreadsheet that includes less tangible considerations…

Pema Chodron + A Site That Envisions Impermanance

+We spend a good amount of time looking for ways to be more accepting of change that seems to be moving faster and faster, the messy processes of life and our lack of control over them: what Buddhist’s call Impermanence. Pema Chodrun’s new book and this clever site help…

The Cosmic in a Coffee Cup

Our friend Josh Eisen emailed this image with this message: Was sipping my cappuccino just now, swirled my cup to gather the foam from the sides, looked down and there it was. Yin Yang in a coffee cup.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2015

This is the first year in some time that Martin Luther King Jr. day was a disturbing day, rather than a purely hopeful one. In light of the recent events in Ferguson and elsewhere, the message in the air, sadly, has been that Dr. King’s dream was not as far along as we thought. It…

A Winter Solstice Reflection on Loss and Joy

Yesterday was the Winter Solstice, the shortest day —and longest night — of the year, when the sun pauses on its southward trajectory, then starts its cimb north, and the cycle begins once again. Some of us wait to begin rejuvenating our lives until New Year’s Eve when the glittering ball drops in Times Square. But…

identity crisis: 5-years of one man’s “looks” + our own

This stop-action video tracking 5 years of one man’s appearance makes us wonder how much how we look, and what our style is, affects our experience and identity…And the many choices we can make about our appearance.

the world is change (and change is not apocalypse)

A few hours after we posted REM singing “It’s The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) as an antidote to Saturday’s crazy apocalypse drama, we found a message from our friend Fern Berman on our answering machine: “I think it’s the end of the world as we know it…