The other day, three random discoveries converged to knock me out of my zeitgeist-powered malaise and into a big wave of joy. They remain a breath of air…
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Brené Brown’s Life Changing Question: Do You Believe People Are Doing the Best They Can?
When Brené Brown asked herself, ‘Do you believe people are doing the best they can? ‘ she admits to answering ‘Fuck no!’ until she explored it further, which yielded pure, transformative gold.
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Opened at Random: All the Light We Cannot See (How Light Comes From Darkness)
This morning we opened at random All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr to this:
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Hurricane Destruction Transformed into a Startling Work of Art
Transformation is a theme we focus on a lot: the making of something out of what seems like nothing. Resourceful people transmute their circumstance, something they’ve found, to make something with meaning or new uses. Artist Katharina Grosse has done that mightily with the wreckage of Fort Tilden, an army base in the Rockaways that was…
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Butterfly Dreaming
When a friend sent us this image of Greta Oto, a wondrous butterfly with transparent wings, we thought immediately of “The Butterfly Dream” from an ancient Chinese text written by the Daoist sage Chuang-Tzu:
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Skydiving at 80: ‘There is More + the More is Wonderful’
When our friend Karrolyn Belkis turned 80, she said was so full of joy, she felt like LEAPING. “Wherever I was, I just wanted to jump around and say YESSSSS. Isn’t it beautiful????” She thought people might think she was crazy if she leaped for joy on the streets of New York City. “I had to…
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worrier becomes warrior
Shift two letters of ‘worrier’ (and your thinking, slightly) and you become… ….WARRIOR!
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