How the Psychedelic Amanita Muscaria Mushroom May Have Inspired the Santa Legend of Lapland
Try Not To Resist
“Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”
– Rumi
Link Pack
The Lion King: Tiny Desk Concert
– The Birds Aren’t Real Merch is putting a smile on my face. My kids are loving the plain black hoodie.
– Very honest and personal interview over on Time Sensitive with yours truly. (Thank you for the kind feedback so many of you have sent!)
– What a cool gift: Create Your Own Reel Viewer
– AI generated art is absolutely wild in every way (via Chris)
– You Need a (Creative) Manifesto
– Cyclo Knitter: A Bicycle-Based Machine That Knits a Scarf in Five Minutes
– This poop bag pouch looks smartly designed. Want. Purchased and loving it.
– I think this is unique stripe-y rainbow scarf falls into the category of what my friend Annie would call ‘Dopamine Dressing’. (aka colorful dressing)
– Plant Guide: Popular Plants from A to Z care difficulty
– I would say a Fringe Garland falls into the same category as my love for confetti.
– The Bantu philosophy of “ubuntu” focuses on the power of community
– The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love
– “Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
– Hey Austin, I wish I could go see the Field of Light installation. Maybe you can go?
– What a stunning house. Wow.
– These pants with all of the pockets made me giggle.
– Great gift ideas for art lovers: Colossal’s Favorite Art Books of 2022
– Tattly make for perfect stocking stuffers. The Tattly Gift Guide can help you find the right designs.
– CreativeMornings gathers kind-hearted, creatively minded humans all over the world. Is there a chapter in your town? If not, put your city on the map and start one, or attend our virtual events called FieldTrips.
Brian Eno on Taking Breaks
“One of the reasons I have to take distinct breaks when I work is to allow the momentum of a particular direction to run down, so that another one can establish itself.”
– Brian Eno
(Via Jocelyn)
Gradient Glass
These beautiful glasses are made for drinking but destined for display. Well done Lateral Objects.
It’s Ok To Feel Things
I think this needs to hang above my desk at Friends Work Here.
Rechargeable Tape Light
I don’t know what I would use it for but I want it: Rechargeable Tape Light.
She Is On her Way
“The system will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling…their ideas, their version of history, their wars…their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We may be many and they be few… Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
– Arundhati Roy
How to Find a Wonderful Idea
How does OK Go come up with their unique ideas for their music videos?
(via Tobias Günther in Dense Discovery)
Staying soft vs Tightening
“Tightness erodes clarity. Tightness reduces expansion. Tightness broadens fear, scarcity, and the feeling of being powerless. Tightness keeps me wound in my own Small Self, forgetting entirely about everything that exists beyond the tightness. Tightness looks like turning away from reality. It looks like worst-case-scenario, all-or-nothing thinking. It looks like ‘What if this doesn’t go the way I want it to?’ and ‘I don’t think I can handle this’ — like worry embodied. It looks like self-doubt and rumination, catastrophizing and smallness. It looks like forgetting about my body and only listening to my brain.”
– Stay Soft, Lisa Oliver
(via Jocelyn)
Featured on Time Sensitive Podcast
I am feeling honored and a bit nervous sharing this interview of yours truly featured on the remarkably thoughtful Time Sensitive Podcast, a labor of love by Spencer Bailey and Andrew Zuckerman. (I originally met Andrew because he has been reading my blog for years.) They are two deeply thoughtful and smart humans nurturing deep conversations. Grateful to have been invited and been allowed to share where my heart and I are at in this moment in time in 2022. You can listen to and also read the interview here.
The Minimalist’s Wall Calendar
Big fan of the minimal wall calendar by IOTA.
My Favorite Design-y Wool Scarves
I am so excited colder temperatures are back and with that my See Design Wool Scarves! Love this small, woman owned business.
I am also big fan of their toiletry pouches. Favorite go to gift for my lady friends.
A Performative Solo
“Social media forms are performative solo forms with an odd conflation of friendship and marketing; the body is alone in a room performing the self, with an undercurrent of desire for applause. Without a town square to gather in and hash out the day with neighbors, social media communications have a shading of loneliness underneath.”
– Annie-B Parson
Make [Eye] Contact | Going Deep With David Rees
Thank you Gene for telling me about Going Deep with David Rees. What a find!
I Don’t Know What I am Doing
“I don’t know what I’m doing. And if you don’t know what to do, there’s actually a chance of doing something new. As long as you know what you’re doing, nothing much of interest is going to happen.”
– Philip Glass
These wall hooks are so cool. And not at all just for kids rooms! My friend Holly put them at her entrance.
Stutz
Meet Jonah Hill’s friend and therapist, Phil Stutz. Directed by Hill, this film invites you to explore Dr. Stutz’s Tools for life in an effort to get real, get personal, and get better.
Life Worth Living
“The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It’s worth being bashed against. It’s worth getting scarred by. It’s worth pouring yourself over every one of its hot coals.”
– Jeff Buckley
The Virtue of Owning Books You Haven’t Read
“When considering whether to buy yet another book, you might well ask yourself when you’ll get around to reading it. But perhaps there are other, even more important considerations, such as the intellectual value of the book in its still-unread state.”
The Virtue of Owning Books You Haven’t Read: Why Umberto Eco Kept an “Antilibrary”
Bubblegum Pink Roller Coaster
OMG! I want to ride EJ Hill’s Bubblegum Pink Roller Coaster Through a Mass MoCA Gallery. Says the woman who doesn’t like roller coasters.
Friday Link Pack
– A truly entertaining read on the adventures of renovating a brownstone. (Thank you Bailey.)
– The New Yorker’s list of best books of 2022
– The creative legacy of Gifs: Past, present and future
– Fun gift: Personalized Word Search Throw Blanket
– Turn your photos into wall art. Fun!
– Revitalizing Culture in the World of Hybrid Work
– How a Mechanical Watch works, one of many beautifully detailed and animated explainers by Bartosz Ciechanowski. (via)
– If you’re in need of inspiration for how to set up your desk check out hackerstations.com. It’s a collection of workspace setups by tech professionals. (Via)
– How To Be Successful, by Sam Altman (via)
– You belong here dish.
– I love these objects by Nicola Vruwink
– What if everything you shared on social media, for one month, was about something other than yourself?
– The Ilulissat Icefjord Centre in Greenland is on my list of places wanting to visit!
– My team and I at CreativeMornings love to light a brand-awareness fire for companies who believe in the importance of the creative community meeting up. When a company partners with us, the world’s largest face-to-face community, they are being seen and celebrated as a generous patron of the creative world. In return we spread their brand and content through content partnerships, hands-on workshops with our FieldTrips, our mega global partnerships… Partner with us?
Two Solitudes That Meet
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
Dreaming of Space Juggling
(via a new favorite: bookofjoe.com)