We were knocked out by an eleven-year-old’s evocative description of returning her Barbie to a clean slate through the mightily therapeutic act of “reconstruction”.
Read More24 Sublime Dancing Goddess Gifs Share Their Joy
Animator Nina Paley created two dozen sublime early goddess GIFs, including a sassy Venus of Willendorf. We don’t know when we’ve seen so much forthright joy.
Read MoreE. Jean on Life, Decor, and The Best Piece of Advice She’s Ever Given
E. Jean Carroll, the longest running advice columnist in history, lives alone on a small island in the woods of upstate New York.This short video profile gives us a glimpse of a pure original whose carved out a completely original life, in the mainstream, yet completely OUT.
Read MoreJim Carrey’s New Life of Color
Over the transom came a whole side of Jim Carrey we would never have guessed: Jim Carrey the artist who has much to say about vocation, art, healing…Check out his lovely, very surprising video.
Read MoreLongevity + Life Advice from an 105-Year-Old MD
Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara, an expert on longevity, died recently at age 105. He imposed few inviolable health rules, though he did recommend some essential guidelines.
Read MoreThe Greatest Gift We Can Give or Receive (Gogo, Virginia Satir)
Two-and-three-quarters-years-old Gogo’s wise words echo an essential principle of ground-breaking psychotherapist Virginia Satir…one we could all put to good use.
Read MoreCreate Your Own Crazy Vision (Marc Johns, Emily Dickinson, et al)
The great Marc Johns’ sign NAILS Improvised Life’s essential message and practice. We learn by example…(and poetry).
Read MoreThe Heartening Museum of Failures
(Video link here.) Dr. Samuel West, Director of the Museum of Failures in Helsingborg, Sweden collects innovation fails made by big companies. Through them, he hopes to share an essential lesson.
Read MoreLet Miss Eaves, Walt Whitman and the Venus of Willendorf Help Liberate Your Summer Bod
Who doesn’t find a part of their self-image or their mindset locked in a prison of some sort? Let Brooklyn Rapper Miss Eaves, Walt Whitman and the Venus of Willendorf break you out in time for summer.
Read MoreAs Life Gets Longer It Gets Shorter. Celebrate!
Every person who ever lived feels Time. These days, the general rule when turning a big number birthday is to freak out. But there are other routes to take…
Read MoreA Secret Celebration for Memorial Day Weekend
For some, Memorial Day is a time to remember and honor people who perished fighting in America’s wars; for others it simply means “the beginning of summer”. Then there’s this rather secret way to celebrate…
Read MoreSara Berman’s Closet: The Tenderness of Creating Your Own Life
A tiny yet extraordinary exhibit at New York’s Metropolitan Museum is evidence that we “are free to change at any age”.
Read More3 Essential, Startling Short Videos About Being Human
Since watching these extraordinary short videos, we found we have a very different, much softer view of the strangers we encounter.
Read MoreAi Weiwei: ‘To Make Some Change Requires Some Level of Fighting’
This video and quote from Chinese artist/activist Ai Weiwei’s present a challenging and clarifying view for navigating our world and lives.
Read MorePDF to Print or Share: ‘I Am More Than______’
Here’s The Westport Arts Center and Pamela Hovland’s truly transformative ‘More Than Words’ postcard to print or share. See what happens when you or friends or family FILL IN THE BLANK.
Read More‘I Am More Than_______’ Illuminates the Richness of Our Identities
If someone asked you to finish the statement “I AM MORE THAN_______”, what would you write? What is the identity or cliche that you feel limits you? How are you MORE than that? That is the question that Pamela Hovland asks in a startling exhibition at the Westport Arts Center.
Read MoreRole Model: Artist Carmen Herrera, 101 ‘I do it because I have to’
Cuban Painter Carmen Herrera sold her first painting at age 89. Now at age 101, she is widely exhibited and written about. Of the many pictures taken of her, those of her hands tell the essential story.
Read MoreDangerous Curves: Pole Dancer Roslyn Mays’ Most Rebellious Heart
Our friend Merete Mueller’s documentary Dangerous Curves, featuring pole dancing powerhouse Roslyn Mays, was featured in the New York Times’ Op-Docs series. The film is truly a celebration of ‘a most rebellious heart’.
Read MoreDaily Labor: Nye’s Poem, Patti Smith’s Mistake, S.J. Bernstein’s 3-words of wisdom
We’ve been thinking about the theme of ‘daily labor’ in poet Naomi Shihib Nye’s poem ‘Frankly’ all week. Patti Smith, S.J. Bernstein’s and Ram Dass converged to illuminate it.
Read MoreOde to Age (Antidote to Agism) with 40 Portraits in 40 years
Everyone we know seems to be feeling old, time flying, obsolescence. Daily, we find ourselves doing things to antidote the agism in our head, about OURSELVES. We find this Ode to Age helps mightily.
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