SO GREAT, wherever this few seconds of inspiring outside-the-box thinking came from.
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Tiny Word Bombs That Take the Top of Your Head Off
We’ve collected some two-or-three-word clusters from our readings that “take the top of our head off”, Emily Dickinson’s definition of a good poem.
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How to Practice, Just About Anything (+ Allen Ginzberg)
This cool little video WOKE US UP recently about something we do daily. Practice. We realize now, we don’t always “get” the best way to do it, or the essential piece that we are missing.
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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.
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A Principle for Dealing with Everyday Losses +
When we wrote about navigating loss during th holidays, 80+-year-old skydiver Karrolyn Belkis pointed out something we hadn’t thought of: we feel loss daily. Things we love disappear, whether it be a person, an ability we had, a familiar place, a tree, a friend…something we rely on broke or fell apart or got lost. In answer to…
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shaolin monk: through practice you can skip on a wall!
We are knocked out by photographer Tomasz Gudzowaty‘s beautiful black-and-white-essay of the practices of Shaolin monks, found at IndigoJaws. We especially love this one of a monk skipping on a wall — a variation on our favorite subject of leaping and flying — made possible by rigorous and repeated practice. Lesson there… Thanks Vanessa!
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mastery of anything is about practice + overcoming ‘can’t’
David Saltman over at The Houdini File spotted this image on The Art of Kung Fu’ facebook with the comment: Whenever you say “I can’t do it”, think of this photo. All martial arts, including tai chi, are about practice…a lifetime of practice to gain mastery… …And mastery of ANYTHING is about practice, perservering in the…
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