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Your History of Distruptive Ideas
? One of the best end-of-the-year “lists” we’ve come across is Businessweek’s The 85 Most Disruptive Ideas in Our History. We’ve loaded it onto our phone to read in spare moments about the influence...
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An Intro to ‘Bird by Bird”s Brilliant Instructions on Life
A while ago, Brain Pickings posted on Anne LaMott’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, for our money one of all time BEST books about the creative process. Although we’ve written...
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Must Read: ‘The Lives They Lived’ (On Kawara)
Anatoly Stepanko via David Zwirner On the this best year-end/New Year’s reflections is, as always, the New York Times’ Magazine’s The Lives They Lived, brief stories of incredibly original lives of...
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Bohemium Homes: An Alt Kind of Eye Candy
bohemiumhomes.tumblr.com We browse A LOT of websites in our search for illuminating content for Improvised Life that will inspire new ways of viewing every aspect of the everyday. We have a special...
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Found Objects Music + Attitude for Monday
Click to embiggen At Under the Sun we stumbled on this reminder of the many objects around us that can be used to make music. Type in Found Objects Music into YouTube’s Search and you’ll find A LOT of...
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5+ Happiness Generating Questions
HPLYRIKZ.com As ever, Neil Gaiman nails it. But there’s a question in his wonderful words, one that many people we know have been asking themselves: What Do You Have that Nobody Else Has? What is the...
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A Powerful Spring Poem with Robledo’s Wondrous Images
Maria Robledo When we stumbled on this powerful little haiku, we thought right away of Maria Robledo’s wondrous flower assemblages…where we found another surprising haiku hidden amidst her Instagrams....
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What if We Stopped?
Stefan Sagmeister Yesterday, we stumbled on Seth Godin’s question “What if you stopped?“, and…. …we did stop for a minute to think about it. What if we stopped publishing Improvised Life? (more…)
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Peace Practice: Viewing the Glass as ‘Already Broken’
Sally Schneider At Zen Habits recently, Leo Babauta shows ways to apply a compelling daily practice from Achaan Chah, the Thai meditation master, described by Mark Epstein in Thoughts Without A...
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Stick your Head in the Clouds!!
Myoka One of the most wondrous website’s we’ve seen lately is Cloudreporter, a site of cloud images that readers have submitted, with an unobtrusive sliding note that tells who took it, the location...
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Join Our Tribe!
Deanne Fitzmaurice Improvised Life is a space that celebrates creative living to the fullest degree. We work hard to collect great ideas from artists; inspiring thoughts from poets; stylish, useful...
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Practice: A Do Nothing Day (via Grant Snyder + Neruda)
Grant Snider At Grant Snider’s very wise Incidental Comics, we found THIS brilliant idea: take a day to do nothing. Only we’d change one word in the last panel of Snider’s comic about the worthy...
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Our newsletters are a love letter to our readers: A collection of what’s happening and what we’re up to. Subscribing sends us right into your your inbox so you’ll have our quirky, thoughtfully-crafted...
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Check Out Our Instagram @whynot_improvise
Sally Schneider We discover SO many TINY improvisations as we wander through our days that we decided to start tracking them on Instagram. You can see the latest in Improvised Life’s sidebar, though...
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Pink Inspiration, Erotic and Otherwise
? At the ever-inspiring Aqqindex the other day, I came across this sublime pink sleeping nook in Tunisia and thought WANT! I know the influence of pink because of the pink wall in my bedroom: in the...
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Toolkit: Questions to Ask Before Giving Up
We were stunned by Everything Is Awful and I’m Not Okay: questions to ask before giving up, published on Eponis last March. The sixteen questions are SPOT ON for the drawing awareness to the kinds of...
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A photo posted by Yoko Ono (@yokoonoofficial) on May 13, 2014 at 1:33pm PDT “Yes. We try.” Wonderful words. Part of Ono’s Peace Maps, in which you Stamping PEACE all over town would make lovely...
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Girl Prison Antidote: Man Repeller + a DIY Scarf Dress
Krista Anna Lewis The other day, Improvised Life’s always-surprising assistant Mira Keras used a phrase we’d never heard before, but totally KNEW: “Girl prison“. She said it in reference to a women’s...
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Advice for Monday: Simpler.
Sally Schneider It’s Sunday night and we realize we are steeling ourself a bit for Monday and the start of a new week. After a very busy LAST week, we let a few things slide over the weekend, and they...
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An Idaho Mom Defiantly Strips Down in an Idaho Market
(Video link here.) Last August, Amy Pence-Brown, a 40-year-old Idaho mother of four and founder of the Boise Rad Fat Collective Facebook, stood stripped down to a bikini in a busy Boise market,...
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