Finding Your Hammer

Adam Robinson shares some wonderful nuggets of wisdom in this DO Lectures talk from 2017. My favorite: “In any interaction, create fun and delight for the other person with enthusiasm!” And the notion of ‘rehearsing your best self’ every day.

When A Lot of Things Start Going Wrong All at Once

“When a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born—and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.”
– Anne Lamott

Cats and Domino

♥ / Studio Gives Creative Freelancers a “Team”

A big thank you to Studio for sponsoring my blog this week. (Whispers: I wish Studio would have been around when I was a freelancer, many moons ago.)

Let’s be honest. Freelancing is great, but it can be lonely and hard. Studio helps by providing support, structure, and accountability in its curated community of creative freelancers.

Studio has a number of community based programs, including an 8-week workshop that starts on September 7th.

Check out Studio if you’re craving more community and structure to grow your creative business.

Something & Nothing Seltzers

I arrived back in Brooklyn after two weeks in Switzerland and my friend Yvonne filled my fridge with Something & Nothing Seltzers as a welcome home present. The branding, the packaging and even the taste have me in a tizzy! A good tizzy! (I recently hit my 6 month mark of not drinking alcohol and fun Seltzers like these give me life!)

The Best Cover Letter Ever Written

Benedict Cumberbatch Reads “the Best Cover Letter Ever Written”. Glorious.

Every Sport a Bowling Ball

This is beautifully absurd.

Prismatic Portraits by Lui Ferreyra

Loving these portraits by Denver-based artist Lui Ferreyra.

Soften

“The habitual tendency when things get tough is that we protect ourselves, we get hard, we get rigid. But…that’s the time to soften and see how we might play or dance with the situation.”
– Jeff Bridges

Beauty

“If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?”
– Ernst Haas

How To Cut Every Cheese

The path to my heart is paved with cheese.

(via my bud Chris)

Patience

“Patience is also a form of action.”
– Auguste Rodin

Hiku Chopper

This small manual chopper is seriously adorable.

Surfboards by Jean Jullien

These surfboards designed by Jean Jullien make me want to learn how to surf.

Uri Utensil Holder

This utensil holder made me smile.

The Earthing Movie: The Remarkable Science of Grounding

(The embed code was disabled, click though to watch over on YouTube)

I am writing this post, with my bare feet firmly planted on grass, outside a Swiss farmhouse where I currently spend some vacation time. This documentary blew my mind and most likely explains why I have been craving so much time in nature, touching and being in close connection to soil.

Watch With Glittering Eyes

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

— Roald Dahl

Uzumaki Wooden Table Tray

Hey you good-looking trays!

Witton Egg Tray

I can of course live my life without a wooden egg tray, but wouldn’t it be prettier with it? Who doesn’t want to celebrate and elevate their eggs? Respect your eggs!

Olaf Breuning

Food Faces by Olaf Breuning. Made me look.

Flip Record Display Shelves

These Flip Record Display Shelves perfect for storing and displaying records. Love this!

Magic

“Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic.”
— Arthur C. Clarke

I remember I saw someone use Shazam for the first time. It felt like magic.

Cement Doorstop

I love a good doorstop. Especially this one.

Link Pack

– If you want a thorough but easily digestible breakdown of the IPCC report on climate change,
Quartz read through the 400 pages and distilled the existential dread.

– My kids and I love playing PairPlay. It’s multiple two-player adventures built for AirPods. SO MUCH FUN!

– How Jimmy Connors won a point by launching his racket in the air in 1996. Wow.

Illustrations from Japanese Fireworks Catalogues (ca. 1880s) (via)

Bookfeed creates a custom RSS feed that notifies you whenever your favourite authors publish a new book. (via)

– A Book of Poetry by E.E. Cummings Was Returned to the Library 50 Years Overdue

Laundry lens: “Point your camera at a clothing care label and you will be presented to the proper instructions” for how to wash it.” (via)

An umbrella built for two.

– Are you having a hard time making a decision? Consider the two door rule.

An enormous new shrimp was just discovered.

– I am intrigued by this wooden LED torch

– I am having a hard time not ordering some of these beautiful mugs .

Tapedecks. Oh the memories. (via)

– Do you know someone who lost a loved one? Tell them about The Dinner Party.

These propagation vessels make me so happy. I have two of them and they are even more beautiful in person.

– Someone please take me here.

Tattly is turning ten. Humbled by the journey this company has taken me on. What a teacher! (There’s currently a totally bonanza 50% sale happening!)

– A big thank you to NYC based Chassie for sponsoring my blog this week. Get yourself a custom made desk. I love them!