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1. Another chance to start over, wisdom from Seth Godin.
2. Good Question: How can I stay creative when I have to sit and type all day long? and No regrets, wisdom from the wicked smart Alexandra Franzen. What I love so much about her perspective is she is able to be both gentle and fierce at the same time.
3. One day you’re a dog. The next day, you’re in space. by Andrea Scher. Even though this piece is about a very personal experience, it’s completely universal at the same time. And, the fact that she published it on September 11th gave it a whole other layer of meaning. It made me think of all the times in my life this has happened — “Sometimes life changes like that – one day you’re a dog, the next day you’re in space.”
4. The Digital Breakup from The School of Enough, (shared on Be More With Less). This makes a really compelling argument for challenging yourself to make a change to your digital habits. I want to try it, but I confess it also makes me a bit shaky just thinking about it.
5. My Plan On 9/11. One person’s memory of “that day.” This line alone is worth the read, “In some ways, hope is just a lie in a prom dress.”
6. Confessions and Lessons from a Former Approval Addict on Tiny Buddha.
7. Omission: Choosing what to leave out, on why writing is choosing what to leave out.
8. Good stuff from Chookooloonks this was a good week list: One woman’s mission to photograph every Native American tribe in the US, and 10 Questions With Brené Brown. Also from Chookooloonks, accept your nomination.
9. The Gentle Art of Trying Something & Sucking at It on Zen Habits.
10. The “New Age Thinking Will Make Me Thin” Diet from Isabel Foxen Duke. Word. Confession: I went to therapy for my dis-ordered eating at first because I thought it was the magic bullet to getting the body I wanted, NOT because I wanted to get well — that came later.
11. How to Do a Career Change Detox from Laura Simms.
12. 7 Ways Happy Couples Deal with Disagreements Differently from Marc and Angel Hack Life.
13. News Flash: Fear Does Not Respond Well to Self-Discipline from Jennifer Louden.
14. What All Writers Can Learn From Mitch Hedberg.
15. So this happened: The ‘Dear Fat People’ video is tired, cruel and lazy – but I still fight for the woman who made it, and “Dear Fat People” isn’t satire: Despite the backlash publicity, it’s unlikely to make Nicole Arbour a star, and This comedian’s YouTube channel was shut down for fat-shaming, and What I Want to Say to Fat People: Response to Nicole Arbour, and Response: Dear Fat People from Meghan Tonjes.
16. This Couple’s “Drunk History” Version Of How They Met Is Pure Gold.
17. Two powerful posts on Facebook in response to National Suicide Prevention Day, one from Andrea Gibson and another from Amy Tingle.
18. I was a teenage Fox News robot: Sean Hannity destroyed my childhood.
19. Recipe: Easy Sweet Potato Veggie Burgers! With Avocado. Looks so yum, although if you put sweet potato and avocado in just about anything, I’m going to want to eat it.
20. ‘Eat Clean’? The Smug Instagram Lifestyle Might Not Be So Healthy After All. If you’ve never heard of orthorexia, you need to read this.
21. How to help your family and save lives from Neil Gaiman.
22. 9 things I’ve learned about marriage from being a couples therapist.
23. Your FitBit Is Ruining Your Relationship with Your Body – Here Are 3 Reasons Why.
24. the big quiet from Sas Petherick.
25. How to help Syrian refugees? These 6 groups you may not know are doing important work.
26. Hijacking Genocide: An Open Letter.
27. 10Q. 10 Days. 10 Questions. “Answer one question per day in your own secret online 10Q space…When you’re finished, hit the magic button and your answers get sent to the secure online 10Q vault for safekeeping. One year later, the vault will open and your answers will land back in your email inbox for private reflection.” This year’s 10 actually started yesterday, but you can still join in. I’ve done it for the past few years, and it’s really fun. I always learn something about myself answering the questions, and am surprised and inspired when I read my responses from the year before.
28. This Is What Happened When I Welcomed A Refugee Family Into My Home.
30. There’s More to Life Than Being Happy.
31. How to Finally Clean out Your Closet for Good, a really great strategy from Be More With Less. “When I finally cleaned out my closet for good, peace replaced guilt, joy replaced frustration, and love replaced fear.”
32. How Not to Do It All from Zen Habits. I should probably just commit to starting each and every day by reading this. My name is Jill, and I’m a do-aholic.
33. The Loving Our Body Lie and Fat People and Faulty Assumptions from Dances with Fat.
34. Meditation: Beyond the Practice with Susan Piver on The Good Life Project Radio, two of my favorite people talking to each other about one of my favorite topics.
35. “What My Recovery Looks Like”: Jennifer Matesa on Freedom.
36. Wisdom from John Lubbock, “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
37. I’m Fat and I Don’t Want to Assimilate into Diet Culture (And No, I’m Not Sorry).
38. Zen Foxes: Photographer Documents Wild Foxes Enjoying Themselves.
39. The Tiny Book Show. If you are looking for an easy, creative project, this one is super fun.
40. 12 Simple Ways to Make Your Yoga Classes More Trauma Informed.
41. Killing Of Young Woman In Nepal Spotlights Travel Safety.
42. Wisdom from Saul Bellow, “Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.”
43. Wisdom from Carl Sagan, “For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
44. 26 Photos That Every Perfectionist Will Find Pleasing.
45. Margaret Atwood: On Facing the Blank Page.
46. Man Recreates Photos Of His Late Wife With His 3-Year-Old Daughter 3 Years After The Accident. All the feels…
47. Creative Work on Allowing Myself.
48. 11 easy ways to reduce your plastic waste today on Tree Hugger. I’m doing most of this already, but what’s really got me excited from this post is the picture of the decorated tiffins. I want! Indian Tiffin has decorated ones, and Happy Tiffin has a really great selection of undecorated ones, all different sizes and shapes.
Open Space Practice, (AKA: A Thousand Shades of Gray) 