Maria Kalman recently arrived in our Inbox with an invitation to buy a signed and numbered edition she created. It’s called “Don’t Think too Much” and it has much to say on the subject and how not to… (think too much)
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Tricia Hersey’s Radical Nap Ministry: “Rest is Resistance”
During a particularly stressful and exhausting time in her life, Tricia Hersey had an epiphany: She started napping where ever she had a few moments. It was transformative and led her to research the idea of rest as a healing mechanism and form of resistance against societal oppression. It would become her ministry, and she The Nap Bishop.
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Productivity Principle: Doing Nothing Can Help Get Things Done
My big lesson in productivity, learned the hard way, flies in the face of the accepted wisdom.
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Advice for Someone Who is Juggling Her Life
Like most people, we often feel like we are juggling way too many things in our life. Although we try to simplify, make choices, edit out the unnecessary, we have not yet mastered the equilibrium of just enough. How startling then to find A Poem for Someone Who is Juggling Her Life and its affirmation of a very counter-intuitive option…
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Pause Button DIY (Maurizio Cattelan)
In an Illustrated Interview, the New York Times asked artist Maurizio Cattelan What would you invent to make life easier? His answer: A pause button.
YES! We all desperately need the ability to pause. But until an instant pause button is invented, here are some we thought of…
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Artist’s Studios with Sofas + Rest Spaces
Bored Panda’s slide show of 300 artist’s studios is illuminating on many accounts: it provides an edifying survey of art works in process, as well as a look into work styles and spaces, with a number of interesting home design ideas. Like Roy Lichtenstein, above, quite a few artists have a sofa or easy chair…
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How to Say “Leave Me Alone”
We regularly go through periods of needing to retreat for a few hours or a day, just because…we’re tired, or a bit overwhelmed, or need to process something or just…rest. We chalk it up to our constitution, natural introversion, life. Although we know that EVERYONE goes through these spells, for one reason or another, barring just…
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Summer Fun Ideas for the Last Sweet Weeks
While we’re off for this last sweet week of summer, we thought we’d leave you with a round-up of some of our best ideas for your own summer ramblings, even if those ramblings are just in your head.
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DIY to Alter Your Mental State (after Carsten Höller)
If haven’t experienced artist Carsten Höller’s work, perhaps you can devise your own version of his Giant Psycho Tank, above, which invites viewers to float weightlessly in the water of a sensory deprivation pool to alter their mental state.
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Taking a Break… to Take a Leap
Of late, we’ve felt like this: trying to gain control of a wild horse — also known as our life. We’ve learned the hard way when we hit rough patches — of health, or crises of our own or our friends — our best bet is to STOP, and take time to catch up, heal, rest. So…
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Going AWOL
(Video link HERE.) It has been a TIME the past five months, with serious life events that have continued since June. Just as we’ve gotten our balance, another big wave hits. They say that big things happen in clusters and they have for us; we’ve been improvising like crazy, finding many unexpected answers as we…
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Ferran Adrià: Creativity Needs Rest
Yesterday, we thought we had set our favorite Arabia tea cup down on the edge of the bathroom sink, only to hear it smash into the bathtub. Okay, we got the message, we thought: SLOW DOWN. We take small accidents like that as warnings that we are too distracted to be present. But we got…
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waxing + waning…we’ll be back in a few days
We found this beautiful gif on Krulwich Wonders some time ago, along with a quote that resonated deeply: We wax, we wane. It’s the dance of life. Every living thing is a pulse. We quicken, then we fade. There’s more to the quote, but the part we related to was principle of waxing and waning,…
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