Tag Archives: Andrea Scher

Something Good

1. No Time to Think on The New York Times, Sunday Review, (thanks to Jeff for sharing).

2. The most useful business advice you’ll ever get from me from Paul Jarvis.

3. Amazing images of nature from Bored Panda, This 144-Year-Old Wisteria In Japan Looks Like A Pink Sky and 10 Tree Roots Winning Their Battle Against Concrete.

4. Homeless man who sold sketches of his dog on the street and is now popular artist says his dog transformed his life on Dog Heirs.

5. Wisdom from Rumi, “There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into Light.”

6. These Amazing Before-And-After Drawings Show The Real Value Of Practice on The Huffington Post.

7. On Illness, Belief, and Saying Yes, an essay by Andrea Gibson on The Body Is Not An Apology.

8. Turn on the f*cking faucet, a voice memo from Andrea Scher.

9. How to Create the Quiet (because it’s noisy out there) from Be More With Less. I adore the quote she starts with, can’t read it without placing my hand on my heart.

10. Can’t Hold On, a beautiful poem from the beautiful Sunni Chapman.

11. What I would tell you if you were here with me from Jennifer Louden.

12. If you love to read like I love to read, you’ll love this list from Lindsey, The Best Books of the Year, So Far on A Design So Vast.

13. Exposed by My Children for What I Really Look Like on Huffington Post.

14. A Note from the Universe,

Eternity is a really, really, really long time, Jill. I think we’ll be able to squeeze everything in. Relax.

15. Some Things Take Time: Slow Down and Stop Pushing on Tiny Buddha.

16. Living the Simple Life on Zen Habits.

17. This quote, shared on Positively Present Picks,

“You’ll become known for doing what you do. It’s a simple saying, but it’s true…The only way to start being asked to do something you want to do is to start doing that thing on your own.” ~Jonathan Harris

18. Everything You Can’t Do When You’re Not A Toddler on Huffington Post.

19. I Am Willing, from Jonathan Fields.

20. A quote from John Green about why we should make stuff, shared by Austin Kleon.

21. Shared on Happy Links from Rowdy Kittens, 100 Days of Good Karma: Day 8 (Don’t Wish Your Life Away).

22. Not Responsible For Other People’s Success, from Justine on Allowing Myself.

23. An Evening with Cheryl Strayed, at the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins. I’m in.

24. How To Become An Enablist – A New Ethos For Creative Collective Change from A Big Creative Yes.

25. Wisdom from Anne Lamott on Facebook.

26. The Cure for Writer’s Block: Start With the Last Thing You Learned, from Chris Guillebeau.

Something Good

ericpinksky041. New Architectural Watercolors by Maja Wronska on Colossal. These make me want to get on a plane, immediately.

2. Brightly Painted Stairway in Turkey Starts Revolution Against Drab Gray.

3. 5 Things to Do Before Breakfast for a Happy Day on Elephant Journal.

4. Beck’s new album, Morning Phase. I’m not a crazy Beck fan, but I am in love with this album, although it at first made me super weepy (it’s quite melancholy).

5. 30 Cats And Dogs Losing The Battle Against Human Furniture on Bored Panda.

6. What I’ve Learned as a Writer on Zen Habits.

7. Permission To Be Hungry by Meg Worden. Such an important message.

8. “What stands in the way becomes the way.” ~Marcus Aurelius

9. On Messing Around from Lisa Congdon.

10. Old stories from Kat McNally.

11. Treasure Hunt: Color Collecting is Andrea Scher’s new photography ecourse. It looks so fun.

12. 18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently on Huffington Post. There are things on this list that I regularly criticize myself for doing. That stops now.

13. Wisdom from Chögyam Trungpa

People have difficulty beginning a spiritual practice because they put a lot of energy into looking for the best and easiest way to get into it. We might have to change our attitude and give up looking for the best or easiest way. Actually, there is no choice. Whatever approach we take, we will have to deal with what we are already. We have to look at who we are.

14. How to Find Body Compassion on Magpie Girl.

15. On Desire and the creative kindness of limits from Hiro Boga.

16. 33 Ways to Be Childlike Today from Tiny Buddha.

17. Wisdom from Rumi, the poem “The Guest House,” a reminder I need again and again.

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.

Be grateful for whatever comes.
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

18. This wisdom, a Note from the Universe. I need to hear it at the same time I don’t want to hear it, don’t want to believe it even though I know it’s probably true.

Protocol Clarification: Jill, in the adventure of life there are no “brownie points” earned for suffering, sacrifice, or tears. Nor for anguish, altruism, or selflessness. In fact, you don’t even get any for generosity, gratitude, or compassion. In time and space there are no “brownie points,” period. Might as well just do what makes you happy.

19. The True Cost vs. Benefits of a Dog. {Infographic} on Elephant Journal. I love this, although in my case the cost has been much higher, and it says nothing of the emotional cost, of having your heart broken in the end.

this one has already cost me plenty

this one has already cost me plenty 🙂

20. 7 Questions I Asked Myself from Executive Coach Michele Woodward.

21. Shared by Susannah Conway on her Something for the Weekend list: What You Learn in Your 40s and “What should I write about?” 33 prompts to unlock new blog posts + stories that need to be told …

22. From Positively Present Picks: “The best journeys answer the questions that in the beginning you don’t even think to ask” (image) and 8 Things To Do Alone… For A Change.

23. To That Guy Who Made a Fat Joke about Me to My Boyfriend from The Militant Baker.

24. 18 New Life Hacks from viral Nova.