all the hearts

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Just 30 days since my last post, summer vacation finally begins tomorrow. I am so worn out and equally ecstatic not to have to juggle work w...

a good reminder

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In honor of Einstein's birthday this month: a physicist's approach to the serenity prayer is a good reminder for a Monday morning.  ...

horsepower of will

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In case you have an impossible task in front of you and needed some internal moral support, these poor horses can relate. Check out the grad...

fomo

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I feel this in my very core. Why hello there, therapy. via { the DO Lectures }

returning to children's lit

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I hope you spend some time, reading a good book today that you loved as a kid--Happy Sunday! The Books We Loved as Children Can Comfort Us a...

how do you relax?

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It is Saturday, a day meant for relaxing. I loved going back over some of these comments! 13 Reader Comments on Relaxing The past few weeks ...

Pandemic coping mechanism

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  Maybe they ordered these off of Amazon.  via {source unknown}

historical April Fool's that backfired

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this murmuration with 400-500 tries

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In case your Monday isn't quite flowing right, can you imagine where you would be after 400-500 tries on the activity that you are curre...

ah, Paris!

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I hope you can find enough Nutella for this one, and can walk down the street, carrying the metaphorical wine and bread with a pep in your s...

checking in on growing up

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  This makes me think of the list that everything one needs to know can be learned in kindergarten. What is your best LIFE HACK?? (I thought...

classical music=repressed joy

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  Now this is a comedy sketch! via { kimberly clark }

Solstice

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Today's Winter Solstice deserves two posts because I couldn't resist this Merwin poem. THE SOLSTICE They say the sun will come back ...

helping others... future fridays

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"Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. ...

faking it till making it

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 Aw Mr. Bean, you always make me laugh!

Erste Advent

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What a sweet reminder for this Erste Advent--may this be a season of better listening and more hope even in the tiniest doses amidst so much...

defining the ultimate bookend of a life

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This is an eloquent take from a true, old-school journalist, Dan Rather. The numbers are just breathtaking, in the saddest incarnation of th...

a murmuration

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One of my favorite animal group names is a murmuration of starlings. These beautiful pictures capture that onomotopeia so perfectly.  Captur...

the myth of Talent

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“When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break a...

Rachmaninoff Vespers

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Wow, this makes me think twice about the gentle double bass!  Today is All-Saints' Day, and I would love to have gone to Fritzlar with O...