We recently stumbled on this video the great Chistophe Niemann created to accompany a clip from Terry Gross’ last interview with 80-year-old Maurice Sendak, a few months before his death. It is full of wise, achingly tender words. Our friend Maureen Rolla turned them into a kind of blessing.
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Over the years, I’ve practiced various breathing techniques to reduce stress. But it wasn’t until I listened to this interview with James Nestor, author of Breath: The New Science Of A Lost Art that I understood how breathing works in the body and emotions, and how we can use the simplest of practices to calm or energize ourselves, and heal.
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In this animated clip Christophe Niemann illustrated from Terry Gross’ last interview with Maurice Sendak a year before he passed away, the author of Where the Wild Things Are, shares some very tender wisdom…
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(Video link here.) One of the very best things in the New York Times’ recent The Lives They Lived was a clip from Terry Gross’ last interview with Maurice Sendak; Â Christophe Niemann found and illustrated it. It is full of achingly tender, wise words from the 80-year-old Sendak: There’s something I’m finding out as I’m…
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