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1. Wisdom from Maya Angelou, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” No kidding.

2. The Daring Interview Series: Meet Gavin Aung Than on Brene’ Brown’s blog.

3. How to End the Endless Game of Catching Up on Be More With Less.

4. Wisdom from Mara Glatzel, “Believing takes practice.” (P.S. Click the link and read the whole newsletter. I promise it’s worth it.)

5. These 22 Photos Will Make You Fall In Love With Foxes on Bored Panda.

6. 17 Baby Elephants Learning How To Use Their Trunks on BuzzFeed.

7. Jawdropping views of cozy homes built in an abandoned office tower, a lagoon, a recycling heap and more on the TED Blog.

8. When I Am Among the Trees by Mary Oliver.

When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.

I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.

Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.

And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”

8. 4 Good Reminders When You’ve Had a Bad Day from Marc and Angel Hack Life.

9. 20 Magical Tree Tunnels You Should Definitely Take A Walk Through on Bored Panda.

10. He Sent A Photo Of The Sunset In Japan To His Parents. What He Got 20 Minutes Later Is Beautiful. on Viral Nova.

11. The biggest adventure: forever, then all of a sudden from Christina Rosalie.

12. Trust and attention, the endless dance and The right moment from Seth Godin.

13. Wisdom from Isabel Foxen Duke,

Trying to control our weight is really just an attempt to control the uncontrollable — primarily, but not limited to, what other people think of us…There is nothing you can do about uncertainty in life…except stop trying to control it. Let go or be dragged.

14. The Crossroads of Should and Must by Elle Luna on Medium.

15. Real Artists Have Day Jobs by Sara Benincasa on Medium.

16. Dealing and Healing After Loss: 9 Tips to Help You Get Through the Day on Tiny Buddha.

17. Note from the Universe,

Everything in your life, right now, Jill, is awesome. Everything is in its right place, under grace, and whether or not this makes perfect sense yet, one day it will. And the time swiftly approaches when you’ll be exceedingly grateful for all that has brought you to this day and contributed to who you’ve become, because it is exactly that person who is now poised to live as you have always dreamed you would one day live.

18. A reminder from Brave Girls Club,

You know so much more than you think you know, you just have to remember it. There’s so much wisdom in that amazing heart of yours that just needs to be reminded and listened-to and encouraged to speak out.

Think about when you were a little girl….all of those hopes, dreams and ambitions that were unique and wonderful and unabashed. What held you back as you grew older, from wanting or working for those tender dreams?

Don’t be afraid to be the person that you thought you might grow up to be….that person that you dreamed of being…that amazing woman that you looked into the future to see when you were a little girl. Uncover those dreams again and believe in them….shoot for what is deepest in your heart…and be the woman that you always wanted to be.

19. How I Became a Buddhist and What It Really Means from Sandra Pawula.

20. Shared by Susannah Conway on her Something for the Weekend list: Dani Shapiro on mastering the craft of writing.

 

Something Good

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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.“