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Over our Transom: Lynzy Lab’s Brilliant ‘A Scary Time’ Video
With only a ukelele, a cell phone camera and a Twitter feed, Lynzy Lab made a smart, insightful pitch-perfect video that went viral.
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How a Cheap Wig and Selfies Revealed Another Possible Self
Wig Experiment 1 / Sally Schneider About 2 years ago, I bought a cheap, silvery wig on Amazon for $13. It would prove to be a might catalyst for change…
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The ‘Delicate Cages’ of A Stranger’s Hands (Robert Bly)
Sally Schneider More astonishing than the 40+ rings on a stranger’s hands, where the hands themselves. Together they taught me an unexpected lesson, the big gift of my day (along with a poem by Robert...
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The Remarkable Last Question in Barbara Hammer’s End-of-Life Exit Interview
Elinor Carucci for The New Yorker An end-of-life “Exit Interview” is in itself a remarkable and startling thing to undertake. No less the answer to the last question.
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David Hockney and Joni Mitchell Instagram “Opens Up Our Vision to What is...
Jacob Sousa, via L.A. Louver, Venice, CA. The New York Times parsed 13 reasons why the instagram of art and music legends David Hockney and Joni Mitchell went viral. We found some other reasons why...
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Frances McDormand On Aging, Facelifts,and the Roadmap that is our Face
Tony Gentile/Reuters Actress Frances McDormand says so much that is wise about aging in this short interview. As does this poem by Fleur Adcock.
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Jean Cocteau’s Catalyzing 2-line Psychotherapy Lesson
Cecil Beaton An insightful quote from legendary poet, film-maker, artist, Jean Cocteau has had a number of people we know thinking hard about it and how much it resonates: a tiny therapeutic bomb that...
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Pamela Adlon on Aging as Content and Allen Ginsberg Just Being Content
Pamela Adlon’s riff on aging and the sudden changes of her body got us thinking about the need to turn ourselves into content to accept ourselves. Then we came upon Allen Ginsberg’s view.
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Ikigai: “What Makes You Jump Out of Bed in the Morning? and Other Questions...
When a friend sent us VENN diagrams of the Japanese concept of Ikigai last week, we found we couldn’t get its big fat question out of our mind.
View ArticleHannah Gadsby’s ‘Nanette’ and Ted Talk ask: “What Is the Purpose of My Human?’
In her TED talk and HBO special, “autistic, pathologically shy” Hannah Gadsby tells how she came to be the most talked about comedian on the planet. It started when she asked herself an essential...
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Bolivia’s Cholita Wrestlers and Mountain Climbers Transform Stereotypes with...
Todd Antony Aymara indigenous women in Bolivia, long marginalized, have embraced wrestling and mountain climbing in traditional colorful skirts to affirm their history and their visibility. Their...
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Slomo Followed THIS Principle To Change His Life and Transcend the Trappings...
The impetus for Dr. John Kitchen’s radical life change into the skater Slomo was the answer a very old man gave him when he asked, “What is the secret to living so long?”
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Powerful 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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Crazy Beautiful Joy Dance via Issey Miyake PFW20
We’ve watched this little video on instagram many times now, vicariously soaking up its unexpectedly BIG expression of joy AND its insight into the most common of personal catalysts…
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