identity

24 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.

E. 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.

Jim 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.

Longevity + 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.

The 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.

Create 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).

The 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.

Let 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.

As 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…

A 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…

Sara 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”.

3 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.

Ai 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.

PDF 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.

‘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.

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