There is brave in soft.
There is wild in simple.
There is peace in thunder.
There are songs in stillness.
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They found that when people made a very subtle shift moving from ‘What should I do?’ to ‘What could I do?’ they generated many more solutions and better solutions.
This is how to solve problems more effectively with one simple change by Daniel H. Pink.
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Spinning on turntable
Vinyl’s warm sound fills the room
Analog magicVinyl’s crackle and pop
A symphony of sound waves
Forever in grooveVinyl disc spins slow
Echoes of the past come alive
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When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying, ‘You’re too this, or I’m too this.’ That judging mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.
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© Blaise Hayward (via Vimeo)
This short film tells the story of Walter Strohmeyer who for almost all of his 90 years has been swimming in the waters off Long Island. An honest and at times heartfelt story about the power of ritual.
The Swimmer by Blaise Hayward is a wonderful little short, I love everything about it.
filed under hyperlinks, articlesWe cannot make social media good, because it is fundamentally bad, deep in its very structure. All we can do is hope that it withers away, and play our small part in helping abandon it.
According to Ian Bogost from The Atlantic The Age of Social Media Is Ending. Yes, please!
theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/twitter-facebook-social-media-decline/672074
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© SUGi (via YouTube)
SUGi’s mission is to empower rewilding and bring Nature closer to anyone anywhere. Our Forest Makers and Ocean Gardeners use your funds to restore biodiversity and regenerate ecosystems.
From the YouTube-Channel by the beautiful SUGi project. If you want to know more about the propagated Miyawaki method and the idea of the “Mini-forests”, there’s a book by Hannah Lewi.
One for my growing antilibrary.
filed under hyperlinks, articlesToday more than ever, there’s just no reason to assume any fit between the demands on your time – all the things you would like to do, or feel you ought to do – and the amount of time available. Thanks to capitalism, technology and human ambition, these demands keep increasing, while your capacities remain largely fixed. It follows that the attempt to “get on top of everything” is doomed. (Indeed, it’s worse than that – the more tasks you get done, the more you’ll generate.)
The upside is that you needn’t berate yourself for failing to do it all, since doing it all is structurally impossible. The only viable solution is to make a shift: from a life spent trying not to neglect anything, to one spent proactively and consciously choosing what to neglect, in favour of what matters most.
This first of Oliver Burkeman’s eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life (“There will always be too much to do – and this realisation is liberating”) might as well be written just for me. I’m going to try and adopt this as a kind of mantra for the future.
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© emocritus Properties, LLC / Cosmos Studios, Inc. (via YouTube)
That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan is always a win.
filed under hyperlinks, articlesThe point is, when you’ve been conducting your working life at the speed of a freight train, it takes quite a long time to roll to a stop and/or point yourself in a new direction—toward a new way of being, living, and working.
An article worth reading —especially but not only if you’re working in the creative industry; Confessions of a Burnt Out Over-Achiever by Jocelyn K. Glei.
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© Science and Nonduality (via YouTube)
A documentary about the art of living outside of conventions, in deep integrity with one’s essence.
That must be the most incredible place for a ‘Home Office’ I’ve ever seen; mathematic Michael has practically left civilisation and lives alone inside the thick jungle of Hawaii now, twenty minutes away from the closest existing road. The academic and Buddhist cleared the plot of land he afterward built his solitary home on himself by hand with material he all brought on his shoulders.
I haven’t checked any other content created by SAND (Science and Nonduality) besides The Art of Life so far and I’m always a bit cautious when it comes to prominently presented spirituality, but this short documentary video portrait is magnificent and I admire the wonderful place “devoted to beauty and impracticality” Michael has created.
We’re building a non-profit, free repository of pure, immersive natural soundscapes as a fundraising platform for local, grassroots charities that support the restoration of our natural world.
The website earth.fm is “like Spotify, but for natural soundscapes”. I love everything about this.
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© Patagonia (via YouTube)
Fishpeople tells the stories of a unique cast of characters who have dedicated their lives to the sea. Featuring Kimi Werner, Eddie Donnellan, Dave Rastovich, Matahi Drollet, Ray Collins and Lynne Cox.
Another beautiful short documentary produced by environmentally conscious clothing company Patagonia. After spending some days near the coast myself recently for the first time in literally years, I only realized again how much I’ve missed the sea. Probably that’s one of the reasons I enjoy this video so much; I’d love to live closer by and with the ocean myself.
