Category Archives: Marc and Angel Hack Life

Something Good


1. 12 Things You Should Start Making Time for Again from Marc and Angel Hack Life. Also from Marc and Angel, 3 Questions that Will Free Your Mind and Turn Your Life Around.

2. Your Life Is Not The Problem from Erin Geesaman Rabke on Body Happy.

3. The Fat Boi Diaries: Why Selfies? from Blaqueer. He’s so beautiful, and what he has to say is so important.

4. Pharrell – “Happy (Woodkid Sad Remix)” (Stereogum Premiere).

5. You Shouldn’t Need A Reason For Not Having Kids on Thought Catalog.

6. 10 Ways to Live an Extraordinary Life on Be More With Less.

7. Wisdom from Thích Nhất Hạnh,

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions — we cannot be free.

8. How INFJs Deal with Conflict: 10 Confessions from Introvert, Dear.

9. Good stuff from Zen Habits: You’re Not Worse Than Other People and The Cure for Your Distraction Syndrome.

10. On Daily Creative Rituals on Rowdy Kittens.

11. A Celebration of The Stop Doing List from Danielle LaPorte.

12. After Mudslide, Family Miraculously Finds Dog While Sifting Through Rubble, good news on Huffington Post.

13. Couple Buy an Abandoned French Chateau, Start a Blog to share their Journey. Total eye candy…I want to go to there.

14. How to Ignite Your Creativity: Advice From World-Renowned Artist Julia Cameron on Huffington Post.

15. Blessing #11 from Ronna Detrick,

Dear One: No matter how hard the stories you have had to live through, it’s in their telling, their sharing, their being seen and heard that both justice and healing come. Secrets and shame do not suit you. And you deserve whole armies going to battle on behalf of your honor. You are worth that much.

16. Wisdom from Sas Petherick, “When we say yes to something we don’t want to do, we are being dishonest: we turn an invitation into an obligation.”

17. Truthbomb from Danielle LaPorte, “Denying your personal pain won’t lessen other people’s suffering.”

18. From Good Life Project, (which I’m not sure how I missed, but thanks to Tammy from Rowdy Kittens and her Happy Links list this week, I didn’t), Craft As a Spiritual Practice With Dani Shapiro.

19. Shared by Susannah on her Something for the Weekend list, Outbuilding of the Week: A Backyard Writer’s Shed. I want this so bad, I could cry.

Something Good

1. 3 yrs ago you were evicted from 20 Catherine St 13B. I have your dog. (newyork.craigslist.org) on Elephant Journal. “P.S. you can’t have her back.”

2. Buddhist Cave Temples Are Jaw-Droppingly Gorgeous on Huffington Post. I want to go to there.

3. At the cusp between wonder and fact from Christina Rosalie, one of the most beautiful writers alive, in more ways than one.

4. Young people swap clothes with grandparents and parents for charming, fascinating photos.

5. Wisdom from Jessica Patterson,

You don’t need to know everything. You just need to be in love with what you trust in your bones, and be free enough in that not to break each time the world whispers a new truth in your ear.

6. Wisdom from Elana Miller at Zen Psychiatry,

Life is precious, even when it’s imperfect, painful, and sad. Especially when it’s imperfect, painful, and sad.

7. Wisdom from Thich Nhat Hahn, “Only the present moment contains life.”

8. 22 Adorable Before And After Pictures Of Animals Growing Up on Bored Panda.

9. While I’m gone from Rachel Cole.

10. Wisdom from Unknown, “Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, and my kindness for weakness.”

11. My New Favorite Thing, a recipe for chickpea fries that looks delicious.

12. Slippery Slope from XKCD.

13. Wonderland from SouleMama.

14. Wounda’s Journey: Jane Goodall releases chimpanzee into forest.

15. Easiest Brussels Sprouts Recipe You’ll Ever Make on MindBodyGreen. One of my favorite ways to eat Brussel Sprouts.

16. Having Kids: Expectations Vs. Reality on BuzzFeed.

17. Renegade Mothering. I’m not a mom of humans, but I love the perspective of this blog, appreciate the humor and the wisdom.

18. 10 Ways To Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered, Lessons from my book Show Your Work! Austin Kleon on Medium. My copy should arrive any day now.

19. Stop Resisting: Surrender to Your Body to Transform It and Your Life on Tiny Buddha.

20. On What Disturbs, Then Nourishes by Dani Shapiro, (thanks to Rowdy Kittens’ Happy Links list for the link).

21. 5 Spiritual Lessons I Learned From Obsessing Over Food, Isabel Foxen Duke on MindBodyGreen.

22. 15 Powerful Beliefs that Will Free You from Negativity from Marc and Angel Hack Life.

23. Letting Go: What it means. How to do it. on Elephant Journal.

24. And, just because baby elephants are stupid cute, (from Reddit). Stupid cute = Someone or something that is so attractive it disrupts your ability to intelligently process information while looking at it, something so unbelievably cute it makes you stupid.

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