1. Fort Collins, Colo., might be the happiest place on Earth on LA Times. I love where I live.
2. How To Boost Creativity With A Morning Routine from Fran Sorin.
3. Everyone saw the biracial Cheerios commercial, but kids saw it differently. This is a great video. The little girl with freckles is my favorite.
4. Dave Matthews breaks down on bicycle, gets a ride to his concert from fan. Reading this made me cry, thinking about how magic happens, how this person was just being a decent human, offering to help someone who needed it, and got such a great surprise reward for it.
5. how trusting my body makes my dreams come true, a great reminder from Sas Petherick.
6. How I decide what to charge for {everything} I create from Alexandra Franzen.
7. Elizabeth Gilbert’s posts on Facebook. It’s like she’s writing a mini blog there, and her posts are so good that I can’t stop sharing them. Here’s one on Bringing Up The Light, which sent me to the paint department to look for my color. Does Running Away Work? was another really good post.
8. Do Whatever Makes You Happy, from Christian Novelli.
9. Also from Christian Novelli, 46 Reasons To Exist. What 46 things are on your list?
10. The Space Between and Learning How To Stop The Glorification Of Busy on Scoutie Girl.
11. Chris Rock Gives The Best 60-Second Piece Of Advice To Liberals, Conservatives, And Human Beings on Upworthy.
12. Most Celebrities Promote Products They Like. Ellen DeGeneres Is Not Most Celebrities. and BOOM, ROASTED: Here’s Why You Don’t Ask A Feminist To Hawk Your Sexist Product on Upworthy.
13. Take The Human Test, a brilliant set of videos from ZeFrank, who has a habit of making brilliant videos.
14. Golden Retriever Champ: Probably the Happiest Dog In The World and Meet Norm, Pug With the Best Selfies on the Internet on Bored Panda.
15. Terms of Endearment from Rachel Cole.
16. Louis CK – Animated: If God Came Back
17. Rest in Peace, Tiger.
18. Preorder the Humans of New York book. One of my very favorite projects.
19. My son and dog’s 2 1/2 year friendship on Reddit. The last picture in the set is so sweet.
20. 21 Cozy Makeshift Reading Nooks on BuzzFeed DIY. We all need one of these, a good book and a dog or two.
21. How To Be Happy: Simple steps to lead a simple and content life. Yes, please.
22. Coolest Dad Ever on Elephant Journal, a Latino Depeche Mode cover band that consists of one dad and his two kids, one girl and one boy. Cool.
23. Dad Captures His Son’s First Year, One Second Per Day, and It’s Lovely, another cool dad.
24. My Girlfriend Weighs More Than Me. So What?
25. 21 Things to Stop Saying Unless You Hate Fat People on Live Love Grow.
26. Confessions of a life coach : slogging through the muck from Amy Kessel.
27. from running to runner from Jessica Swift.
28. We Shake With Joy, a short poem by Mary Oliver.
We shake with joy, we shake with grief.
What a time they have, these two
housed as they are in the same body.
29. 14 Things You Didn’t Know About Neil Gaiman on BuzzFeed.
30. 5 Powerful Resources for Decluttering Your Home and Living More Simply and How to Release the Grip on Your Comfort Zone on Be More with Less.
31. Wisdom from Pema Chödrön,
The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves. This is priceless advice that addresses the true cause of suffering—yours, mine, and that of all living beings.
32. Home Bound Blues, Raf Horemans travel blog which includes the most beautiful photography.
33. Evidence for the suggestion that racism isn’t natural, it is taught: The 40-Year-Old Photo That Gives Us A Reason To Smile and this more modern picture that shows the same from Reddit.
34. Wisdom from Tama J. Kieves,
You may think that making the “right” decision guarantees you success. But, really, knowing that you can’t fail is what guarantees success. You can’t fail because the Love that guides you is infallible and can always course correct.
35. Latest Parenting Trend: The CTFD Method.
36. Allison Mae Photography does it again. Oh Allison. Oh Idgie.
Photo of Idgie, a.k.a. Honey Badger, by Allison Mae Photography
I couldn’t bear to have Allison take pictures of Dexter, could never bring myself to go through with it, make that call, just knew looking at images this beautiful when the boy was gone would have hurt too much, would have felt too bad to have two of my dogs captured this way when Obi was already gone and would never have the chance. But now that there’s just Sam, and there will be another boy one day soon-ish, I think a session is in order.
37. 10 Epic Treehouses Cooler Than Your Apartment on Mashable.
38. 40 Days of Dating.
39. Just One Paragraph, from Christina Rosalie. This is a great idea, but I can’t take one more thing on right now. Check her comments section for other bloggers taking part in posting just one paragraph each day for 30 days. I am loving reading Christina’s posts, like this first one for example, Making Saturday Slow on Purpose {Just one Paragraph: 1/30}.
40. Things I want to remember from Susannah Conway. Oh my, the poop moment — who knew such a thing could be so sweet.
41. How you can ask for — and receive — cosmic guidance from Danielle LaPorte.
42. Something else Elizabeth Gilbert posted on Facebook,
Several years ago, I went to see an ophthalmologist on account of some recurring trouble with eye strain and general blurriness. During the exam, the doctor asked me, “Do you spend much time reading or writing?” I replied, “Only when I’m awake…”
Me too. Me too.
43. Walking Across America: Advice for a Young Man.
44. From Rowdy Kittens’ Happy Links list, Life is Not Perfect. Fortunately.
45. If I lived alone, this might be what my place would look like: anahata katkin: papaya! on SF Girl by Bay.
46. your daily rock : no expectations
47. How To Draw Mandalas (And Why You Want To) from Andrea Schroeder.
48. Shared by Susannah on her Something for the Weekend List: So, How Was Your Day? and So We’ll Always Remember.
49. This story, of how good people can be, and how important it is for us to share the good stuff, because apparently this wasn’t reported on the news.
The ashes of Sean Misner, one of the 19 firefighters who died last week in Arizona, were being transported by his wife back to their hometown on Tuesday. She was in his truck and is pregnant with their unborn child. On every overpass for nearly 500 miles there was a tribute similar to this. Pretty damn remarkable and worthy of more media coverage than most of the other stuff that has been on tv lately. Wanted to share because our media has seemed to overlook it.
50. love this: ellie’s current favorites from Liz Lamoreux. I love the sweet way that Ellie sees the world.
51. Dog Finds A Tiny Kitten, Risks Everything To Save Her on BuzzFeed. Hopefully these two get adopted together.
52. Calvin and Hobbes Documentary Trailer Gives Us All Kinds of Feels on The Mary Sue.
53. If I were to take another online class right now, it would have to be Be Your Own Beloved, “a 28 day photo adventure designed to cultivate self-compassion through the practice of taking self-portraits” with Vivienne McMaster. The next session starts on August 1st.
54. This wisdom from Audre Lorde, “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
Open Space Practice, (AKA: A Thousand Shades of Gray) 