We feel like we’re flying ourselves as we watch these sea lions leaping and flying through the waves in pure fluid JOY.
Read MoreA Terrible Little Film’s Wonderful Lesson About Aging
This interesting, badly-edited little film left us with a powerful feeling that we’ve been enjoying, so we’re glad we watched enough to get the gist. It yielded a nice big lesson, with a poem to boot!
Read MoreOdes to Joy in Days of Darkness
Bach’s Ode to Joy got us thinking about how JOY works when when life throws in a giant monkey wrench and we find ourselves navigating darkness we never imagined…,
Read MoreCosmo Sheldrake’s Remarkable Musical Collaboration with Endangered Birds
Over 9 years at dawn, Cosmo Sheldrake carried recording gear, laptop, and sometimes a keybord into fields and woods to make music in collaboration endangered birds. The result is his new album Wake Up Calls; it is both charming and illuminating…
Read MoreCreative Thinking is a Martial Art
SO GREAT, wherever this few seconds of inspiring outside-the-box thinking came from.
Read MoreSunset TV and Other Ways to Watch Amazing Goings-On
An image titled “sunset TV” reminded us of the many alt-TVs we’ve known people to watch. And the pleasure and illumination they afford.
Read MoreTiny Whale Videos Spark Dreamy Reverie
A therapist friend once described the idea of reverie as a tool for healing; dreamy meditation and daydreaming, free of anxious thinking, has a powerfully restful effect. That state is what I found myself in after I stumbled on these tiny videos…
Read MoreHow to Give Thanks Anyway (Melanie Beatty, Bob Dylan, Gary Snyder, Pablo Neruda…)
Many months after coronavirus radically changed our world, we don’t know anybody that is not having a difficult time. We turn to the greatest balancing mechanism we’ve found to find out way back to fullness, “enough”, clarity, joy.
Read MoreHow to Practice Magic
There is a big message in this little film, way bigger than its title, Reframe the Familiar. The visuals seem somehow of another time and act, with the words and odd voice, like hunks of poetry.
Read MoreWe Celebrate Our National Voice (Patti Smith, U2)
Perhaps the most heartening victory of the fiercely contested national election is the record-breaking turnout of voters braving long waits and the coronavirus to exercise their VOICE. We can think of no better celebration than the anthem Patti Smith wrote in 1988…
Read MoreLet Rhythm Rewire Your Life (Tasha Blank)
Tasha Blank‘s video manifesto shook us loose from a stuckness we didn’t know we had, mired as we were in the mighty anxiety of the zeitgeist, dire news, contentious opinions… The international DJ, dancer, coach, somatic practitioner and music producer has much to offer in the form of music, events, courses and meditations so you…
Read MoreA Body Language Vaccine for Stress and Overwhelm (S.B. Dworski)
Since the convergence of Covid-19 and the run-up to the election, I’ve been increasingly bombarded with homemade mini zeitgeist-videos expressing the pent-up emotions we’re all sharing during this rocky time. The best of these I forward to good friends; mostly, I enjoy a good chuckle, then hit delete. I’ve kept this one on my desktop,…
Read MoreHow to Redeem Life’s Spoilers (Andy Goldsworthy and Hala Alyan)
For over a week, the work of a poet and an artist seemed to be in conversation,
helping us understand a fearsome part of living.
Essentials for Voters from Patti Smith, Jenny Holzer, Sojourner Truth…
We’ve been seeing a lot of very cool VOTE images from artists peppering the instagrams of arts galleries and museums. Here’s a trove along with essential resources for planning your vote.
Read MoreHope and Direction in RBG’s Enduring Wisdom
Reflecting on the passing of legendary Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, I found her life and words full of hope, wisdom, and direction.
Read MoreS.B. Dworski Ponders “Sonder”
Frequent contributor S.B. Dworski dives into John Koenig’s deeply beautiful concept, Sonder, which has poignant resonance today.
Read MoreKintsugi Repair as Metaphor
Artist ciriacaerre made a video of repairing a smashed vase using kintsugi, the Japanese art that celebrates the scars and breaks. She, and other artist, eloquently describe its greater meaning…
Read MorePhyllida Barlow’s Fearless Embrace of Chance
One of the best things to come out of the months of Covid-19 lockdown has been extraordinary films from art galleries and museums. One of the best of is about the English sculptor Phyllia Barlow. It provides an illuminating counterpoint to the many life questions that the virus has thrown into relief.
Read MorePowerful Scientific Imaging Shows Why Masks Work
This remarkable video captures what is normally invisible to our eyes — how masks work to slow airborne infection carried on our breath — and resolves much conflicting information about them. Essential viewing for those that wear them and those that don’t.
Read MoreExperience a Feeling of Flying, with Rumi UPDATE
We love the feeling of flying in Universal Everything’s beautiful little video and find ourselves watching it over and over; it’s amazingly refreshing to our lockdown minds. It reminds us of this Rumi poem.
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