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The Heartening Museum of Failures
(Video link here.) Dr. Samuel West, Director of the Museum of Failures in Helsingborg, Sweden collects innovation fails made by big companies. Through them, he hopes to share an essential lesson.
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Create Your Own Crazy Vision (Marc Johns, Emily Dickinson, et al)
Marc Johns The great Marc Johns' sign NAILS Improvised Life's essential message and practice. We learn by example...(and poetry).
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The Greatest Gift We Can Give or Receive (Gogo, Virginia Satir)
Mira Keras Two-and-three-quarters-years-old Gogo’s wise words echo an essential principle of ground-breaking psychotherapist Virginia Satir...one we could all put to good use.
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Longevity + Life Advice from an 105-Year-Old MD
fairhaventours.com Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara, an expert on longevity, died recently at age 105. He imposed few inviolable health rules, though he did recommend some essential guidelines.
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Jim Carrey’s New Life of Color
Over the transom came a whole side of Jim Carrey we would never have guessed: Jim Carrey the artist who has much to say about vocation, art, healing...Check out his lovely, very surprising video.
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E. Jean on Life, Decor, and The Best Piece of Advice She’s Ever Given
ELLE Magazine E. Jean Carroll, the longest running advice columnist in history, lives alone on a small island in the woods of upstate New York.This short video profile gives us a glimpse of a pure...
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24 Sublime Dancing Goddess Gifs Share Their Joy
Animator Nina Paley created two dozen sublime early goddess GIFs, including a sassy Venus of Willendorf. We don’t know when we’ve seen so much forthright joy.
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Improvised Feminism: 11-Year-Old’s Barbie Reconstruction Obliterates Stereotypes
DollRocket7/Etsy We were knocked out by an eleven-year-old’s evocative description of returning her Barbie to a clean slate through the mightily therapeutic act of “reconstruction”.
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Annals of Personal Ritual: Self Portrait in Wedding Clothes Taken Every...
Fran Black Fran Black enjoys creating very personal rituals in order to collect memories in ways that feel meaningful, like this unique yearly celebration of her long marriage…
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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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