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gahan wilson\/the new yorker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lately we’ve been wanting to expand our fields of vision a bit. We’re always on the lookout for new inspiration for the blog, but also just for shaking up our own thoughts and routines. After asking a couple of friends for some book and blog recommendations, we realized that we have the greatest resource in our own readers!<\/p>\n

So tell us: what are you reading that inspires you? Whether it’s a new favorite book or one you return to often, a blog you keep tabs on or one you just discovered we want to hear about it. Obviously we’re most interested in texts that encourage improvisational living or out-of-the-box self and home invention, but even inspiring fiction would be welcome. Share up to five books and five blogs in the Comments and we’ll start checking them out. We’re hoping the whole ‘improvised life’ community will get a trove of new ideas…and \u00a0perhaps for a minute (here and) there, it will all makes sense.<\/p>\n

cartoon: The great Gahan Wilson<\/a> via The New Yorker<\/a><\/p>\n

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Lately we’ve been wanting to expand our fields of vision a bit. We’re always on the lookout for new inspiration for the blog, but also just for shaking up our own thoughts and routines. After asking a couple of friends for some book and blog recommendations, we realized that we have the greatest resource in…<\/p>\nRead More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8360,8361,46,6549,8364],"tags":[3755,3629,1360],"yoast_head":"\nwhat are you reading?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lately we've been wanting to expand our fields of vision a bit. 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