A therapist friend emailed a surprising article from the Harvard Business Review. Several weeks into the pandemic, it is one of the most helpful things I’ve read.
Read MorePractical Ways to Alleviate Toilet Paper Anxiety and Hoarding
We’ve read a lot theories for the toilet paper hoarding that has marked the Coronavirus pandemic. We have a few of our own + viable alternatives.
Read More4-Minute Workout For Sheltering in Place (Like an Hour at the Gym)
This simple four-minute workout routine yields the same benefits as working out in the gym for an hour. It’s proving terrific exercise when sheltering in place due to the Coronavirus.
Read MoreUplift and Surprise Sparked by a Jane Hirshfield Poem
We’re loving Jane Hirschfeld’s wonderful poem I Wanted to Be Surprised. It is the lens through which we’ve been looking to discover uplifting…surprises…
Read MoreA Healer’s Simple, Powerful Immune System Boost
Years ago, I learned a simple recipe for boosting my immune system from a legendary homeopathic doctor. He swore by it, and I’ve come to too. I’ve been drinking it twice daily since the fierce virus scare started and each time, feel its strengthening effect.
Read More5 Hopeful Views that Counter Coronovirus Fear (Science and Art)
Over the past week, I’ve been collecting information and video that yield heartening-yet-realistic views of the frightening situation we are experiencing together, from wise-men scientists explaining the science, to singers joining together virtually to serenade the world.
Read MoreSir Patrick Stewart Reads Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116, Soothing Reminder of Love in Anxious Times
Sir Patrick Stewart chose Shakespeare’s sublime Sonnet 116 to read in this fearful time. Utterly soothing, affirming, beautiful.
Read MoreA Poem to Transform the Pandemic
We had not heard of poet Lynn Ungar before we saw her poem Pandemic. It offers a deeply affirming way to view this “strange and terrible” time, referencing an ancient practice.
Read MoreDIY Hand and Object Sanitizers to Combat Nasty Viruses UPDATE
When we found hand sanitizers sold out everywhere, we did some research to find ways to achieve what commercial hand-sanitizers would, along with a few other strategies for killing that nasty coronavirus.
Read MoreWhat a Noted Virologist Is Advising Family and Friends About Coronavirus
When a friend forwarded an email from a “noted virologist” with the Subject line, “What I am doing for the upcoming COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic”, we checked it out. Dr. Robb MD FACP did indeed write the excellent advice below. It’s well worth taking to heart.
Read MoreWhat to Do When Sleep is Like an Angry Sea (Simple Things that Help You Sleep)
Charlotte Arene’s remarkable stop motion animation captures the restless agitation of not sleeping well as though roiled by an angry sea. It’s a feeling many of us know well. Here is my list of tiny steps that can help you sleep, learned by trying them on myself.
Read MoreHow to be Clear: Walk the Wind with Natalie Diaz, Ada Limón, Theo Jansen
Uitwaaien is an untranslatable Dutch word for a simple, transformative practice you can do almost any time. I came to understand it more deeply through art and poetry that expands the meaning of “air”.
Read MoreListing What You Like Yields Mighty Benefits and Poetry
At the great Artist’s Prints and Multiples, we came across these inspired fridge magnets. We realized that making lists of “likes” can provide the same benefits as counting blessings AND work curiously like poetry…
Read MoreGordon Hempton: Silence is the Presence of Everything
This lovely immersive video follows acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton to one of the quietest places on earth. It draws our awareness to just what it is we’re hearing, or not, and the unique, extraordinarily complex sounds of silence.
Read MoreLessons in Slowing Down (Pico Iyer, Vija Celmins, W.S. Merwin…)
The past week or so, the same message arrived through a variety of sources: in an email sent by a friend, a poem stumbled on on instagram, a notice of a museum exhibition…
Read MoreSlomo Followed THIS Principle To Change His Life and Transcend the Trappings of the Material World
The impetus for Dr. John Kitchen’s radical life change into the skater Slomo was the answer a very old man gave him when he asked, “What is the secret to living so long?”
Read MoreRejuvenating Staycation: Go Forest Bathing…
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.
Read MoreRevelations from Living with A Book Left Open
Although I’ve often left art books open around my space so I could live with an image, it only recently occurred to me to do that with a volume of tiny, powerful poems.
Read MoreBrené 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.
Read MoreA Modern Mantra That Helps Frame Difficulty and Change
Lately, we’ve found ourselves saying an unusual mantra when we hit difficult situations. It affords an instant, very interesting shift of view, as do the lovely flower mandalas we stumbled upon about the same time.
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