When I need an essential retreat to refresh and restore balance but I don’t want to travel, I go…forest bathing. Not sure it’s for you? Here’s a virtual forest bath you can take right now.
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Opened at Random: Flights (Olga Tokarczuk) “…the engine that drives changes”
This morning we opend Flights at random and found this…
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Never Give Up! (Buson and Babar)
Just as we were wondering if March, the fickle, endless-feeling month would ever end, we found hopeful signs…
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Passenger ‘Scare Away the Dark’: Romp in Mother Nature
(Video link HERE.) From Susan Dworski: How better to shout summer? A totally nutball, breakout romp in Mother Nature. Parental guidance: shots of fat guys in their underwear hugging trees.
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life force: a valiant snow-bound goose sitting on her eggs UPDATE
Last Thursday, ‘improvised life’ reader Sue Anderson sent us these extraordinary photograph taken during the massive May blizzard that hit the Midwest last week, with this report: This goose with a “can-do” attitude may be of interest to you. I suppose you have heard about the snow storm currently underway in the US Midwest. Here…
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found kinetic ice and water sculpture
(Video link here.) While walking in a nearby park one frigid day, I noticed that a sheer wall of ice had formed on the bedrock that rises up to make Mount Morris in New York City’s Harlem. It appeared to be alive. When I looked closely I saw its shimmering movement was due to water…
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the improvised lives of trees + 5 simple ways to save em
Ever since we moved in view of massive old trees in a New York City park, and witnessed first-hand the devastation wrought on some of them by Hurricane Sandy, we’ve been obsessed with trees. Sandy woke us up, big time. We’d always enjoyed trees, but seeing the 150 years of rings in a downed oak…
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maria popova + hermann hesse on what trees teach us
Recently Brain Pickings‘ Maria Popova posted about Hermann Hesse’s Bäume: Betrachtungen und Gedichte [Trees: Reflections and Poems] (public library; it’s not available on Amazon). To us, the best part of the post was Popova’s own words used to introduce Hesse’s: I woke up this morning to discover a tiny birch tree rising amidst my city quasi-garden, having…
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a blue passionflower’s crazy inspiration
Just as we were thinking we couldn’t write another thing – didn’t have a clear thought in our head – Maria Robledo sent us this photo of the crazy-beautiful flower she was balancing on her knee as she and floral designer Lindsey Taylor were driving home from a photo shoot. Somehow, it seemed like a…
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