How to Be a Friend to Yourself (with Fab Tiny Playlist)
We really like School of Life’s potent little video, How To Be a Friend to Yourself, something MANY people we know have a hard time doing. We made a tiny playlist to go with it.
View Article‘Nitch’ is Worth Checking Into Daily for Ballast and Uplift
The most refreshing and instantly illuminating site we’ve seen lately is Nitch, rich with unexpected little blasts of unique perspectives and ideas…
View ArticleFind Your Address As It Was Millions of Years Ago (+ Other Perspective...
dinosaurpictures.org Type in any modern address to see it on earth millions of years ago, for a powerful shift of view. Then read what poet Gary Snyder has to say…
View ArticleOpened at Random: The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
This morning we opened The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit at random and found this…
View ArticleBreathe In Blessings (Anne Herbert)
Joanna Pan/Flickr Floating in the internet on an ancient, dormant site called yowow, we found the perfect Thanksgiving blessing by the late Anne Herbert…
View ArticleA Powerful Question that Cuts Through the Noise
We invite you to ask this question when editing your life down to what is really important, including where you spend your time —and money— online.
View ArticleHow to Find Nothing But Poems in the Course of Your Day
At poet Ocean Vuong’s tumblr, we found this mind-shifting post…
View ArticleJocelyn Glie’s Newsletter: Ideas for Finding Creativity and Meaning Delivered...
Trüf Creative Among the email newsletters I subscribe to, From the Curious Mind of Jocelyn K. Glei is one where I always find something that challenges my thinking and/or makes my life better.
View ArticleThe Slowdown: A 5-Minute Literary Once-a Day Multivitamin for the Soul
Sally Schneider The Slowdown, a daily 5-minute long podcast from U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, is remarkable in its power to truly slow down time and transport you OUT of the busy mulit-tasking...
View ArticleMacfarlane’s Remarkable Twitter Feed: Flashes of Illumination about Landscape...
@RobGMacfarlane Though we’re not fans of Twitter, we are enthralled by British writer Robert Macfarlane’s feed for its remarkable ability to connect us to nature, landscape, heart…
View ArticleCombine Summer Camp Pleasures with Personal Growth (and Digital Empowerment)
iloveny.com One of the most magical places I know of to take stock of life and transform it is Omega Institute, a true catalyst for change and possibility thinking. I’ll be teaching a workshop there...
View ArticleWe Edited Our Instagram to Be a Tool of Illumination and Found Wild Poetry
© Saloua Raouda Choucair Foundation / Tate Modern Realizing we disliked Instagram for the “junkfood” feeling it gave us, we embarked upon a rigorous edit. Our criteria: whatever we follow must...
View ArticleWhile We’re Away, Here’s How to See Everything Ever Posted on Improvised Life...
Maira Kalman Although we’ll be back after Memorial Day, if you’re in need of illumination NOW, here’s how to scroll through everything ever posted on Improvised Life.
View ArticlePowerful Questions About Personal Expression Sparked by W.S. Merwin’s Garden...
Cook Jenshel Photography At #Consider Journal, a remarkable post ranges from W.S. Merwin’s last book to the “cyclical effect of nature and art” to the bigger question of how our expression might come...
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