becoming comfortable with uncertainty is essential to creativity

After we posted Good Life Project’s Creed, Jeanne McMenemy of Calligraphica, wrote us this email: Great creed…. thanks for posting it. I’m tickled by how many times I come across thoughts on the value of uncertainty. Many years ago, one of my most influential teachers, Jenny Hunter Groat, who died in February of this year, led…

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2 weeks in Sri Lanka in 2 minutes: many improvs + a leap!

(Video link here.) Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine made a fast, sweet video of their 2 weeks traveling through Sri Lanka by foot, moped, car and boat. Turning OFF the irritating music makes for an inspiring little journey of swell everyday improvs. We especially love the LEAP at 1:50. It’s one of many illuminating escapist videos at The Perennial Plate;…

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running the race of your life!

From an April 28, 1934 NY Times photo:  Jack Wolff of Manhattan College “running the race of his life.” That’s what it looks like:  to be so flat-out…you’re almost flying.   We’ve been mulling what the real “race of our life” has been, or is… ..and the times when we have given our all,  flat-out,…

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obsessive wingsuit flight through a hole in a mountain

(Video link here.) Wingsuit pilot Alexander Polli saw a hole in a mountain’s rocky outcropping and just had to try flying through it.  He practiced aiming and controlling his flight over and over until he just went ahead and…flew…right…..THROUGH… …at 155 miles per hour. Polli “hopes his success will inspire others not only to ‘climb…

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new year’s eve: ashcraft’s shooting star + ‘winter’s tale’

 (Video link at Heliotown) Two days before New Year’s, we came across this passage from Mark Halprin’s Winter’s Tale, describing the moment the old year turned into new: Then the hands of the clock started to race like the tortoise and the hare, and both reached midnight at the same time. The clock struck along with…

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morning poem: cheetahs running in slow motion

(Video link here.) We’ve watched this slow-motion footage of cheetahs running flat-out several times already. It is just BEAUTIFUL and made us wonder where such a thing could have come from. Who dreamed up that wondrous spotted fur, flight taken with each stride? We figured it would be a perfect morning “poem” for today: a language…

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leap! (turnip)

Recently, we emailed a friend-fearful-of-the-future our version of a care package: a handful of uplifiting signs and images about taking risks, leaping, going forward into the unknown, one of our favorite subjects. We had just sent off “Leap And the Net Will Appear” when Cynthia Allen from 50 Years 50 Recipes sent us a link to…

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leap for joy (our daily email is working again!!)

In our entire collection of leap pictures, this is probably the most wholehearted. Talk about “taking a leap” or… …a “leap of faith”!! It expresses how we feel now that our Email Subscription Service is working again. Hurrayy!! And thank you to our many subscribers who bore with us, and sent us encouraging notes. via…

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