1. These Are Photos Of Childrens Bedrooms. But They Represent Something Much, Much More. on Pulptastic.
2. Wisdom from Tulku Thondup,
It can be so empowering for us to understand, even on a conceptual level, that we are enlightened in our true nature. We may say, ‘‘Such a wonderful state of mind seems so far beyond me, why should I even think about it?’’
The reason I like to remind people about their perfect nature is that this can encourage us. Yes, it’s true that our grasping often obscures this nature. But the good news is that we already have what is needed to be peaceful and happy. By training our minds through meditation and developing the right attitudes in life, we can bring out what is already there. We can improve ourselves and be happier and healthier in our minds.
3. The 7 c’s: positive benefits of keeping a journal from Positively Present.
4. Good stuff from Be More With Less: 5% Less and 5 Ways to Make Anything Easier.
5. Interview with Austin Kleon on The Great Discontent. Austin really is one of my favorite creatives. This week he also shared Interview with A Total Disruption, another interview with him, and this video of the band Future Islands, new music I’m digging.
6. Wonderful prank turns waitress’ shift into the best day of her life. I don’t like April Fool’s Day or most pranks. I think they are mean. But this one, I can get behind.
7. “Our words collided with the story,” a 365 Docobites about one of my favorite poets, Maya Stein, and her Typewriter II project.
8. You Know You Are a Perfectionist When… on McSweeney’s.
9. Good stuff from Zen Habits: You’ll Be OK and The Most Important Two Minutes of Your Life.
10. 33 First-World Anarchists Who Don’t Care About Your Rules on Bored Panda.
11. Wisdom from Mara Glatzel,
Women, myself included, have this phenomenal tendency to shrink, making themselves small in the presence of others and brimming with inconvenient needs and hungers.
Today I implore you to join me in stretching your arms out wide and spinning around, carving out your sacred space in this world. Then, holding that space about you as you move around your day, in your mind and in your heart.
Know this: You are deserving of your needs, no matter how large or small. You are deserving of taking up your own corner of this world. You are deserving of your own love and affection.
Make room for yourself. Stand in your truths.
You can take up all the space that you need.
12. 27 Struggles Only Dog Owners Would Understand on {Life}Buzz.
13. Wisdom from Anne Lamott on Facebook,
This business of being a human being is infinitely more fraught than I was led to believe. When my son Sam figured out at 7 years old that he and I were not going to die at the exact same moment, he said, “If I had known that, I wouldn’t have agreed to be born.” That says it for me. It’s hard here, and weird. The greatness of love and laughter, the pain of loss, the bearing of one another’s burdens, are all mixed up, like the crazy catch-all drawer in the kitchen.
14. Wisdom from Mornings at Blackwater by Mary Oliver,
What I want to say is
that the past is the past,
and the present is what your life is,
and you are capable
of choosing what that will be,
darling citizen.
So come to the pond,
or the river of your imagination,
or the harbor of your longing,
and put your lips to the world.
And live
your life.
15. Shared by SF Girl by Bay on her Friday Finds post: Love House and Sea salt chocolate chip cookies recipe.
16. Wisdom from Rumi, “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
17. 28 Awe Inspiring Photos That Prove Just How Cool Mother Nature Is on True Activist.
18. 9 Things to Stop Doing During Hard Times from Marc and Angel Hack Life.
19. Sometimes life is about becoming unstuck, and that’s it from Renegade Mothering. This is the kind of post that makes me mad I didn’t write it, it’s that good.
20. Wisdom from Gwyn Michael, “However long I last I thank you.“
1. Buds on the trees, and my lilacs. I’m crazy for spring, long to stick my hands in the dirt, plant flowers and fruits and vegetables, heck I even want to pull the weeds, am dreaming about the food we’ll eat from our garden and the flowers that will bloom.
3. Four of us. It’s just right. Three always felt like there was an empty spot, but four is full, the way it should be. When I see the four of us in shadow, it’s almost like nothing is different, even though so much changed, so much was lost — but I can have a broken heart about all that while still appreciating this.
4. Sam is better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Remember last week I said I wasn’t outwardly celebrating yet? I am now. There’s still a chance this could flare up as soon as we stop actively treating it, or it could be chronic, but that’s so much better than what we were preparing ourselves for only a few weeks ago. Watching him and Ringo play, for as long and as much and as rowdy as they want, is one of the best things ever.
5. Ringo learning to lounge, to relax. He’s sort of awake but not, willing to just hang out. Totally a sign that he’s growing up.
Bonus Joys: Chocolate so rich and dark that it almost tastes like coffee. Laughing with Eric. Strawberry plants that came back from last year. Realizing there are only four weeks left of Spring Semester classes and then it’s finals week and then summer vacation!
Open Space Practice, (AKA: A Thousand Shades of Gray) 