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“Every breath is an opportunity to let love in.”
– Joel Leon
These snow drawings by Sonja Hinrichsen are pure magic and make this Swiss mountain soul smile. (via)
I wish I would have learned of the concept of projecting our personal shadow onto others sooner.
– Lovely project to get lost in: Time in This Time, a time capsule for the present
– Anne Dittmeyer’s Mapping Your Path 3-month workshop kicks off again next week. She is delightful.
– Hi, I would like some confetti.
– Craig Mod shares what he has learned by running a successful membership/subscription program. His biggest insight: Digital memberships and physical things work well together.
– I have a love for fun matchboxes.
– A teeny tiny office in the woods. Want!
– Intrigued by the promise of clockwise: helping you find focus time in your busy schedule. Has anyone tried it? Thumbs up?
– My kids are obsessed with food expiration dates. I enjoyed this 99% Invisible episode titled Best Enjoyed By.
– This thread on people’s favorite Trade Joe’s products is fun to read. (I love shadowing friends at supermarkets to discover new products!)
– A few years ago I replaced all of my bath towels with Onsen Towels and I love them. Onsen recently launched Bath Robes. I got one and I look forward using it every morning.
– So You’ve Made a Mistake and It’s Public — Wikipedians’ excellent advice for what to do when you’ve been busted making a mistake. (via)
– Hey, Let’s Watch Jacques Pépin Fry Eggs
– This portable e-motor turns any bicycle into an electric one
– Feeling of the Month Club is a subscription-based art project that delivers emotional exercises by mail.
– Resources and tools to get your money right
– Sponsor my Community helps community leaders make money
– I got myself this portable monitor and I am blown away how well it works.
– There are currently 495 remote friendly jobs on the CreativeMornings Job Board.
– Put a Tattly on you. Just like this pandemic, it’s only temporary.
This Space Plankton painting by Robert Steven Connett made me look.
you made wings
out of broken things
and rose above
the ones
that hurt you
– Adrian Michael
(From a book called love language)
I deeply appreciate Brian Derrick and his calm energy explaining US Politics, in this case the Filibuster. He has been so helpful in getting through the past few months.
(via)
– Amanda Gorman on Women. Wonderful!
– I loved reading these: These things I know for sure, by Andrea Zittel
– Wow: An innovative installation embeds lights into a five-acre field to spur crop growth
– This Heinz Ketchup campaign made me smile. The mustard guy at the end! LOL!
– Come into my life, Brussel Sprout Bacon Frittata.
– I love a pretty blanket over my bed. This one is lovely. (Thank you Pamela)
– I gifted myself this big red canvas tote and it makes me happy.
– The most intelligent photo ever taken.
– Don’t understand why it’s a big deal that Kamala Harris is VP? Read this.
– This is lovely: The Airplane Collector. Thank you Present & Correct.
– Shattered glass ceiling ring? YES PLEASE! And, thank you Mrs Vice President Harris.
– I would have loved to play with follies as a kid. My inner architect would have had a field day.
– Love this typographic mural by Anthony Burrill (via)
– Excited to read The Trust Manifesto: What You Need to Do to Create a Better Internet
– My currently most priced obsession: The Ostrich Heatbag.
– ONWARD!
– Loving Julia Rothman’s and Shaina Feinberg’s latest labor of love: Every Body: An Honest and Open Look at Sex from Every Angle
– I can’t get over the fact that squirrel benches are a thing.
– Amateurs think they are good at everything. Professionals understand their circles of competence.
– I recently purchased this Fold up Tripod for when I have long Zoom or FaceTime calls with friends and don’t want to be holding or propping up my phone. It’s perfect. Small, folds ups tiny and you can even use it as a selfie stick if you wanted to.
– This elaborately armored Samurai was folded from a single sheet of paper
– What can you do about QAnon?
– Pika lets you easily and quickly detect and clipboard-copy the colour value of any area of your screen. (via Dense Discovery)
– Thank you Jocelyn for pointing me towards this deeply soothing “hang drum” playlist.
– You’re the macaroni to my cheese.
– There are currently 430 remote friendly jobs listed on the CreativeMornings Job Board.
Bower Studios keep delivering fresh ideas. Love the sculptural quality of their Melt Mirrors.
When day comes, we ask ourselves:
Where can we find light
In this never-ending shade?
The loss we carry, a sea we must wade.
We braved the belly of the beast,
We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace,
And the norms and notions of what ‘just is’
Isn’t always justice.
And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it,
Somehow, we do it.
Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed
A nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished.
We, the successors of a country and a time
where a skinny Black girl, descended from slaves
and raised by a single mother,
can dream of becoming president
only to find herself reciting for one.
– The Hill We Climb, by Amanda Gorman
Amanda Gorman took my breath away during today’s inauguration.
I cried my eyes out when Kamala Harris was sworn in. Madame Vice President! What a moment!
“Kindness multiplies and it enables possiblity. When we’re of service to people, we have the chance to make things better.”
Three types of kindness, by Seth Godin
I don’t have chickens, gut the sheer existence of this egg-pocket-apron makes me want to have chickens. It helps you collect the eggs in the chicken coop.
These photos of animals interrupting wildlife photographers made me smile. So stinking adorable.
(via Chris)
This simple porcelain lemon juicer was made in Hasami, a small town in Nagasaki Prefecture, known as the birthplace of fine Japanese ceramics. So simple. So beautiful.
Complete strangers playing a card game called, We are not really strangers. (via Chris)
– National Gallery: How do you make six huge frames for Titian’s mythological paintings? (via)
– Emily Nussbaum asked what’s your biggest life hack? I loved reading the answers on this thread.
– Hang with your friends, digitally with Gather. (looks like a modern version of Habbo hotel which I used to enjoy in 1999/2000)
– It’s a dream of mine to one day get to drive the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. (I love the quote: There is nothing more aerodynamic than a wiener.)
– Ah, yes, I like you, white marble bath caddy.
– How cool is this freestanding, modern fireplace? My heart!
– This picture made me look. More context here.
– I love the resilience of humans.
– Letterboxd allows you to track films you’ve watched and save those you want to see.
– This is currently my favorite recipe: Creamy cauliflower soup. What’s yours?
– I am trying to be more knowledgable and thoughtful about money and investing. This is a good start. Also this Reddit thread.
– This parkour video made my head spin. (Via)
– Want some more poetry in your life? Here are hundreds of free poetry audio books.
– You know you want one of Arlo’s handmade Lightsabers.
– The internet is so weird. I love it.
– Hard to believe Tattly is turning 10 this year.
– Over 370 remote friendly job on the CreativeMornings job board. Whoo!
– A big thank you to Parsons at Open Campus for sponsoring my blog this week.
‘Bond’ appears as a combination of photographic, sculptural and performative elements. The Finnish photographer Anna Reivilä uses the traditional rope technique to bind rocks, trees and other elements of the landscape, presenting a series of images that are ultimately representative of transient objects.
“You are the sky.
Everything else –
it’s just the weather.”
– Pema Chödrön
I love how resilient hoomans are. For members of Luminous Voices, a professional choir ensemble in Alberta, Canada, rehearsing and performing safely during the pandemic has meant getting into their cars, driving to an empty parking lot and singing with each other’s voices broadcast through their car radios.
This archive of old concept cars is pure delight! I love you, internet! (If only it didn’t feature all those ads. Ugh)
(via)
Love this minimal Teak Black Stool.
My son Tilo (10) just shared this delightful Squirrel Ninja video with me. 20 minutes well spent.
