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What makes for a good life?

Comforting Thought: The Summer’s Day by Mary Oliver

“Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” -The Summer Day by Mary Oliver.

10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #106

Lyn Lupetti's imaginative paintings capture the essence of childhood wonder

Enjoy ASMR from an ancient library, paintings to evoke childhood wonder, a yummy lentil curry, a punk loving goat and how to cope with climate anxiety and much more this week.

10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #105

Flaming and raucous birds and blooms by Jesse Arms Botke (1883-1971)

Watch a beautiful kitten transform into an adult, journey along with a dog school, learn how to help a grieving person, enjoy some roaring 20’s art of birds and blooms, some floaty ambient sounds and much more in edition #105. Hope you enjoy it

Comforting Thought: Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miled through the desert, repenting, you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.” – Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

Book Review: Something out of Place, Women and Disgust by Eimear McBride

Eimear McBride - Something out of place - Women and Disgust book review

Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Genre: Non-Fiction, Feminism, Sociology, Philosophy, Sexuality. Publisher: Picador Review in one word: Provocative This is a fascinating, provocative and stirring book. It enrages and stimulates in equal measure and will make you think differently about the world if you are a woman or if you are a man then you will come to understand the disturbing waysContinue reading “Book Review: Something out of Place, Women and Disgust by Eimear McBride”

Comforting Thought: Your body is not just mineral and elemental. No, it’s vividly alive

The Good Hawk by the Balbusso Twins - mystery pagan witchcraft love animals

Your body isn’t just mineral and elemental. No, it’s vividly alive, as anyone knows who’s ever danced, had a sore throat, made love or stubbed a toe.

All of the baroque variety of life on earth is considered to come from a tiny common ancestor who appeared about 4 billion years ago.

Still today, on a cellular level, basic functions like respiration look similar in plants and animals. So does your DNA -we humans share about half of our genetic material with plants. We truly aren’t very far away from anything.

10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #104

A mysterious portrait of Princess Natalya Petrovna Galitzin as an unzipped ravenous vampire

Enjoy a calming tea ritual, be shaken up out of procrastination in a Tokyo cafe, learn some ancient Irish words that are now used in English, a bittersweet lament to birds by Christopher Tin, endangered mushrooms, acid trance and belated 2023 horoscopes by the internet’s lesser known psychic and much more in edition #104. Nana stays.

10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #103

Imagining a Solar Punk future with the art of Ilene Mayer

This week prepare yourself to understand the difference between a seal and a sealion, explore obscure solarpunk art, a pigment library, an ancient song as a haiku to life and death, Scots Gaelic words and much more, it’s edition #103 I hope you like it friends…

Comforting Thought: Real love runs on a lower voltage than our culture leads us to believe

Of Sorrow and Such by The Balbusso Twins - love sadness loneliness spirituality pagan

When we pay attention to the sensations in our bodies, we can feel that love is the energetic opposite of fear. Love seems to open and expand us right down to the cellular level, while fear causes us to contract and withdraw into ourselves. Yet so often, fear keeps us from being able to say yes to love – perhaps our greatest challenge as human beings.