Mount McConnel Trail, image by Eric
1. Alina Baraz & Galimatias, who I’ve been listening to a lot lately.
2. Wisdom from Jessica Patterson, “If you’re only willing to scratch the surface, you will never satisfy the itch.”
3. A Whole Decade from Brittany Herself.
4. Good stuff on Tricycle: The Mindfulness Solution and Guided Meditation with Venerable Pannavati.
5. 9 Great Yoga YouTube Channels.
6. Medicating Women’s Feelings on The New York Times.
7. List of Emoticons for Facebook, something I use quite a bit.
8. Watch These Young Girls Recite Maya Angelou’s “Phenomenal Woman”… It’s Awesome.
9. Andrea Gibson performs The Nutritionist.
10. She Hasn’t Changed Her Home For 72 Years. When You See What’s Inside, Your Jaw Will Drop!
11. I love myself enough to do what it takes (to get well)- PART 1 of a series about adrenal fatigue, chronic hives, hormone imbalance, weight gain, emotional healing, etc. etc. etc. from Melody Ross of Brave Girls Club.
12. On Knowing Our Own Minds from Dani Shapiro. “Our most creative thoughts and ideas spring from a ritualized dream time. In the absence of this dream time we become mechanized, robotic, detached from our inner lives.” Word.
13. Fuck the lie that we can have it all from Renegade Mothering.
14. Something Wild from Sunni Chapman.
15. Tiny Beautiful Things on Call Me Ishmael.
16. Things Black Men Are Tired Of Hearing.
17. Douglas Adams made me a writer: Neil Gaiman salutes his friend and inspiration.
18. Kindness Blog, “Kindness Images, Videos, True Life Stories, Quotes, Personal Reflections and Meditations. Because Kindness Changes Everything.”
19. Wisdom from the 17th Karmapa,
Sometimes when we practice dharma we think that we need to show some sort of external or physical sign of it. We pay a lot of attention to the rituals and these actions of our body and speech. This is practicing dharma when we’re focusing outside. But instead what we need to do is turn our attention inwards. We need to see whether what we’re doing is functioning as an antidote to the afflictions or not. We need to see whether we are taming our mind or not. We need to see whether our mind is improving, getting kinder, or not. If we don’t look at it in this way then there’s no benefit to doing these actions – we think that we are trying to do the dharma, but actually we are just making a show with our body and speech. We are putting on appearances, and that’s all we really take an interest in. And the moment that happens, this becomes spiritual materialism.
20. Good stuff on Medium: A world without advice, and Cabin Fever (P.S. I’ve seen the documentary mentioned at least four times), and I Know the Rules- I Just Don’t Care, and Parenting Advice: Don’t Kill Them.
21. Wisdom Pema Chödrön, from her book The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World,
Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already.
22. Their Dying Wishes on The New York Times.
23. You Will Survive from Jack Kornfield.
24. I Eat in the Light Now from Curvy Yoga.
25. A World Gone Mad from Rachel Cole.
26. #continuouspractice – A month and a half in {with a message} from Visible and Real.
27. chocolate chocolate-chip cake, redux: the gluten-free edition on Chookooloonks.
28. UC Berkeley Students Hold Teach-In for Their Racist Professor.
29. Jessamyn Stanley talks about life, yoga as therapy, and internet love and hate on Body Positive Yoga.
30. An Open Letter to Kid Rock About the Word ‘Gay’ on Esquire.
31. A Beautiful Thing on Just Lara.
32. The Real World of the Writing Life on The Missouri Review.
33. He is black. He is privileged. And all of that concerns his parents.
34. The Man Who Snuck Into the Ivy League Without Paying a Thing.
35. Neil Gaiman’s ‘Trigger Warning’, a Sunday Book Review on The New York Times.
36. One Man Holds a PATENT That Could Crush MONSANTO and Change The World.
37. 15 People From Around the World Next to the Amount of Food They Eat Each Day.
38. Spring Breaks from Jeff Oaks.
40. Mary Lambert on Embracing Sanity, Remaking ‘Jessie’s Girl’ for Lesbians from Rolling Stone.
41. The Futility of Always Pushing Myself to Be More on Zen Habits.
42. Shared on this was a good week from Chookooloonks: Highlights from Apple’s Favorite Photos Shot with iPhones, and Blue – Color//Colour Lovers, and 22 Contemporary Authors You Absolutely Should Be Reading, and a time lapse of a cactus blooming.
43. Good stuff from Austin Kleon: Interview on the Stacking Benjamins podcast and The So What? Test.
44. Shared on Happy Links: this Instagram account of illustrator Ann-Mari Reigstad.
45. Deaf Man Told To “Look Over There.” When He Does, You’ll Bawl Like A Baby!
46. Navigate Your Life: Chris Zydel from Jennifer Louden.
47. Time lost and found from Anne Lamott.
48. Teachers, are you accidentally shaming your students? How to Make Yoga Class More Inclusive by Amber Karnes.
49. 9 Ways to Feel Less Stress When Life Gets Crazy Busy from Marc and Angel Hack Life.
Open Space Practice, (AKA: A Thousand Shades of Gray) 