Start with Yes print. Lovely.
(Did you know I have an entire blog category titled Deecorate your Walls?)
The World is Movement
“For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson
(via Nitch)
The Creative Act
“The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas. It is the night sea journey, the lone fisherman on a tropical sea with his nets, and you let these nets down…sometimes, something tears through them that leaves them in shreds and you just row for shore, and put your head under your bed and pray. At other times what slips through are the minutiae, the minnows of this ichthyological metaphor of idea chasing. But, sometimes, you can actually bring home something that is food, food for the human community that we can sustain ourselves on and go forward.”
– Terence McKenna
(via Nitch)
La Paranoia
Lovely collages by Spain based La Paranoia.
Thank You for Being A Friend (Reader)
Thank you for visiting my little garden on the internet. I love tending to it so you can enjoy it with me.
Doing Things For Truth’s Sake
“I’ll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you’re actually doing things for truth’s sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you’re harmonizing with a greater power.”
– George Harrison
(via Nitch)
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Half Matryoshka Cupola Set by Raduga Grez
The beautifully-colored half matryoshka cupola set is hand-made by Raduga Grez in Russia.
Fade Puzzle
Yep, this is one cool puzzle.
Belonging
“I belong everywhere I go, no matter where it is, or who it I am with, as long as I never betray myself. The minute I become who you want me to be, in order to fit in and make sure people like me, is the moment I no longer belong anywhere.”
– Brene Brown
(This interview with Brene Brown is well worth your time.)
Stand Here for Dance Party
Team ImprovEverywhere surprised random people with an unexpected 100-person dance party on the streets of NYC. This is pure joy!
Link Pack
(via)
– My remarkable Friend Patricia is putting together a thoughtful, nourishing retreat on a Greek Island this September. Wish I could go! (There are only two spots left)
– Visualization of How Fast a Ball Drops on Various Solar System Bodies
– I love a good Rain Poncho. This one caught my eye.
– My friend Gene Monterastelli started an early morning tapping club to start the day off on the right foot. Accountability buddies unite! Not familiar with tapping, Gene breaks it down for you.
– Love this modern outdoor broom.
– I am dreaming of an Airstream Bambi. I might have to start with this mini version.
– Whoa! Stunnig minimal, Danish modular bed.
– The webcams of many laptops, especially MacBooks, are notoriously bad. EpocCam apps, you can turn your iPhone into a better quality, external webcam to use on Zoom, Google Meet, etc. (via Kai)
– I want a Smock. Do you want a Smock?
– This is what radical acceptance looks like. (via)
– A worthwhile long read: Dancing with Systems, by Donella Meadows (via)
– In Finland, preventing car accidents by painting reindeer antlers looks absolutely mythic. (via)
– Remember when songs came with fun music videos? I miss those days. Dive into the 80s here.
– Wow, a non-cheesy colored inflatable pool?! YES!
– This is a beach chair I can get behind.
– Tattly turned 10 last week! TEN!? A decade! Wow! (Whispers: I am grateful we made it through this last year, for a second there it looked like we wouldn’t hit this milestone.)
– Wow! There are over 2830 jobs listed on the CreativeMornings Job Board, of which 679 are remote friendly!
Business
I keep laughing at this Business hat! So many fun ways to use it to bring a point across…
Edie Parker Abstract Basketball
What is going on, I am all of a sudden posting design-y balls. This one last week. Now this basketball. A new obsession?
Poche Bateau
Yep, in love with Clair V.’s Poche Bateau.
Translucent Textiles
In love with Japanese artist and designer Mariko Kusumoto and her translucent textiles sculptures.
Perpetual Kindness
“Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.”
– Leo Tolstoy
(via)
Pulp Storage
YES! containers made out of 100% recycled paper!
Instagram Grid Poster
Yep, I want one of these Instagram Grid Posters. Their Photo Strips are cool too! What a great bookmark-gift!
Maybe love is…
“Maybe, when it comes down to it, love is not about chasing another human being. Maybe, love is about chasing yourself. Chasing your growth. Chasing your hope.
Maybe love is about learning how to be gentle with yourself, how to believe in the way the Universe has removed certain people from your life. And maybe love grows within you when you learn how to trust your own heart, when you learn how to walk away from the things that have not cared for it. Maybe, love is about learning how to accept that sometimes even beautiful things end, that sometimes the timing isn’t right. And maybe love is about learning that endings aren’t something to regret; maybe it is about learning how to let go, how to appreciate the things you experienced at the hands of caring that were real and hopeful and light in a world that sometimes fails to be soft.
Maybe, love is about learning how to be alone. Maybe it is about learning how to wake up in the middle of the bed. How to make just one cup of coffee in the morning. How to hold your own heart, how to take up space. Maybe there is beauty to be found in falling in love with your growth, in learning how to stop filling voids with other human beings, and instead, in slowly having the courage to heal those voids yourself.
Maybe love is about learning how to be proud of the person you are stretching into, is about embracing the beauty and the depth that exists in trying for something while you are here. And maybe within that, love is about honoring your heart. Maybe the truest, and most honest, extension of love exists in the way you learn how to love yourself, exists in the way you learn how to be compassionate towards the parts of yourself, and your journey, that no one else claps for.
Maybe, love exists in the way you fight to be here, in the way you crash your heart into this world. Maybe, love is about you — being your own strength, being your own safe place. Maybe, when it comes down to it, love is about finally learning how to give yourself the same love you so beautifully give to others. Maybe, love is about embracing the person you are becoming, and believing in your heart, on even your hardest of days.”