10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #131

This week, a peaceful quote from Buddhist monk Joan Halifax, a yummy coconut rice recipe, a lesson in enchantment from René Magritte, an encouraging possum and more, it’s edition #131 of Interesting Things! Welcome friends…

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When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression, but the fine detail of fern and flower, or devastation and disruption, becomes visible. Many of us hurry along because we do not want to see what is really going on in and around us. We are afraid to let our senses touch the body of suffering or the body of beauty

Joan Halifax

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Ottolenghi’s coconut rice with peanut crunch

Go ahead and blow your own hair back with this amazing combo of coconut, rice and peanuts!

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In search of Japanese Indigo

Japan Blue or Japanese Indigo is one of those colours that I am hugely attracted to. Here a traditional expert craftsman Mr. Kensuke Yamamura’s Aizome Kasuri Kobo, who specialises in creating natural indigo dyed, hand-woven kasuri talks about his making process.

Why emotions like anger, sadness, boredom and anxiety are actually helpful to us

Once evoked, anger is associated with a “readiness for action,” and your thinking focuses on the obstacle.

If nothing in your current situation is worth responding to, the aversive experience of boredom can motivate you to seek new situations or change the way you’re thinking. 

Once evoked, anxiety is associated with being prepared to respond to danger, including increased physical arousal and attention to threats and risk.

Sadness brings thinking that is more detailed and analytical. It makes you stop and think. The benefit of the stopping and thinking that comes with sadness is that it helps people recover from failure.

Via The Conversation

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Mesmerising artisans who make Venetian glass

Extremely relaxing and almost impossible to look away.

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“Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.” ~ Carl G. Jung

Sixteenth of September (1956) by René Magritte

“Growing from the earth to the sun, a tree is an image of certain happiness. To perceive this image we must be immobile like the tree. When we are moving, it is the tree which becomes the spectator. It is witness, equally, in the shape of chairs, tables and doors, to the more or less agitated spectacle of our life. The tree, having become a coffin, disappears into the earth. And when it is transformed into fire, it vanishes into air.”

René Magritte

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The enchanting Scottish Borders via Love This Land on Mastodon

The Scottish Borders are also beachy, windswept and wild. And a sunny day in Scotland is as rare as hen’s teeth, but when it is sunny the place comes alive in bright green, blue and red heather. I like the name ‘Borders’ because it hints towards the place being the borderland to an unseen world. I found these pics on Mastodon. It makes me long to go back there, Scotland is a place to me that always felt like home.

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Dressing as a member of the Tudor royal household

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Leader versus Boss: an infographic

I know which one I prefer. One is motivating, respectful and kind the focused on other people the other is demotivating, negative and focused on themselves. In all fairness, it can be hard to focus on other people and to keep people feeling motivated and happy – this is harder than it looks. Via Cool Guides on Reddit

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Ad Parnassum by Paul Klee (1932)

Paul Klee’s 1932 painting Ad Parnassum is considered a masterpiece and stands as a pinnacle of his pointillist artistry and meticulous craftsmanship. He drew inspiration from his journey to Egypt in 1928-1929, Klee masterfully constructs a vibrant color field from individually stamped dots and lines, culminating in a striking pyramid crowned by the sun.

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“Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.”

~ George Bernard Shaw

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MOY – Forest Dungeon

A crunchy and funky tech house number.

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Positive Possum believes in you

See his tiny balled fists?! The moral of the story is….it doesn’t matter how tiny your fists are…it only matters how hard you clench them!! So try harder and do it! DO THE THING!

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