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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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Fran Lebowitz’s Wise, Hilarious Views on Fashion (and Life)
Getty Images We have Jason Kottke to thank for chosing the choicests bits of Elle’s hilarious interview with Fran Lebowitz about fashion. But even then, it’s worth reading every bit of her unique LOL...
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Hair as Personal, Cultural, Historical Artform
JD Okhai Ojeikere When Lagos, Nigeria celebrated its independence from Britain in 1960, a hairstyle called the Tall House “literally sprang up“. According to the New York Times Lens Blog, hair...
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Frida Kahlo’s Artful Wardrobe, Painted Casts and All
Ishiuchi Miyako, courtesy of Michael Hoppen Gallery One of our most popular posts featured Frida Kahlo painting the plaster cast she had to suffer living in after one of her many operations. Kahlo,...
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Jenner: on ‘Dealing with Yourself’ and ‘Doing This to Live.’
Annie Leibovitz/Vanity Fair Along with the rest of the world, I’ve been watching the transformation of Olympic gold medal decathlon winner Bruce Jenner into ultra-femme Caitlyn Jenner, culminating in...
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We Cannot Know the Resonance of Our Work (Anne Frank)
Holton Rower Over the past several months, several artists and writers we know have expressed great anguish that their work has not been recognized as they think it should be. Equating the recognition...
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Skydiving at 80: ‘There is More + the More is Wonderful’
Karrolyn Belkis + SkyDiveMiami When our friend Karrolyn Belkis turned 80, she said was so full of joy, she felt like LEAPING. “Wherever I was, I just wanted to jump around and say YESSSSS. Isn’t it...
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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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Patti Smith: “If You’re Positive, You Expand”
Annie Leibovitz Studio Sixty-eight-year-old author and singer, 70’s Punk star Patti Smith is one of the subjects of this year’s Pirelli calendar — considered fashion’s sexiest – celebrating female...
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The Waiting Wall + Public Platforms for Emotion
waiting wall.com Inspired by Alain de Botton’s idea that Jerusalem’s Wailing Wall be adapted in new ways for modern times, digital storytellers Alan Donohoe and Steven Parker created “The Waiting...
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Life Edited Can Be Just So Much Bullsh*t
Chompoo Baritone Lately we’ve come across two compelling photographers whose images boldly portray an essential message about Instagram and other social media: the pretty picture you see is not the...
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Is Patti Smith a Role Model of…Real?
Philip Montgomery for The NY Times Patti Smith is very much in the news these days, largely due to the release of her new memoir M Train, which New York Times’ Michiko Kakutani called “An eloquent —...
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Lego’s Questionable Values Denies Ai Weiwei Art Materials
@aiww (Video link here.) We just heard the astonishing news that Lego, a company whose product we have featured numerous times as a symbol of possibility, has refused to fill a large order of its...
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How to Avoid Writing (+ Then Get Yourself to Do It or ANYTHING)
Sally Schneider Improvised Life part-time assistant editor Mira Keras wrote this spot-on description of a writer procrastinating…as a way of procrastinating herself. But she discovered something...
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What If You Could Talk to Your Younger Self?
(Video link here.) Stoney Emshwiller was 18 years old when he recorded himself interviewing his older self in 1977. Thirty-eight years later, a 56-year-old Stoney answered his younger self’s...
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Linda Rodin on Finding Style in Aging + Face Balms Mixed in a Coffee Cup
Tom Newton Linda Rodin, a late-sixty-something former model and fashion stylist is known for her signature style that revolves around a simple three element-formula: her long silvery gray hair,...
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Why The Glass is Always Totally Full
The New Yorker In response to A New View of Losing Years of Work, a reader named Ann sent us this perfect cartoon and commentary: I’m not sure this link* will take you to the place I intend. I want to...
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Kanya Sesser: ‘I Do Me. I Stick to Positive Energy”
(Video link here.) This video about 23-year-old Kanya Sesser, born without legs and abandoned as a child, says it all. She’s a wise woman. Here are our favorite bits: (more…)
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Butterfly Dreaming
David Tiller /Wikimedia When a friend sent us this image of Greta Oto, a wondrous butterfly with transparent wings, we thought immediately of “The Butterfly Dream” from an ancient Chinese text written...
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