“At the end of the experiment, I wasn’t dying to get my phone back or to access Facebook. I just wanted to get back to being better informed. My devices and the Internet, as much as they are sometimes annoying and frustrating and overflowing with knuckleheads, help me to do that. If getting outside and… Read more »
Posts By: Mariana
#tds2929 Usefulness comes from what is not there
Find a quiet place and sketch other objects that illustrate ways in which usefulness comes from what is not there. The importance of no-thing and emptiness to all that we find of benefit in life. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2929
#tds2928 Learning a new skill? Take short breaks
“…study suggests our brains may use short rest periods to strengthen memories. In a study of healthy volunteers, National Institutes of Health researchers found that our brains may solidify the memories of new skills we just practiced a few seconds earlier by taking a short rest. The results highlight the critically important role rest may play… Read more »
#tds2927 Dark Silence
Find ‘a little bit of dark silence’ in your day. Take a photo and show us. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2927
#tds2926 Coot on Ice
We wanted to share this snapshot of stillness and tried to think of an activity related to it we could offer. Then, we saw it. What better activity than just enjoying a moment watching nature as portrayed in this wonderful photo? It was taken by John Johnston. Enjoy. And if one is not enough, click… Read more »
#tds2925 Little things might be big things
“ENJOY THE LITTLE THINGS, FOR ONE DAY YOU MAY LOOK BACK AND REALIZE THEY WERE THE BIG THINGS.” – ROBERT BRAULT What little things might you enjoy today? Take time to practice noticing the infra ordinary and take a photo. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2925
#tds2924 Don’t move the way fear makes you move
Today, some more poetry to help us quieten that mind chatter. Fear creates a great deal of unnecessary mind chatter. Let’s replace that with this beautiful poem and rest in inner calm. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2924
#tds2923 Edited lives
Clara Dollar wrote an essay called ‘My so-called Instagram life’ which offers a case study for the ideas illustrated in the The Innovation of Loneliness video. An honest an intentionally reflective essay, we think is worth your time today. “If you spend eight years building a house (no matter how uncomfortable or ugly it may be,… Read more »
#tds2922 Do you overgeneralise the ‘Don’t Waste’ Rule?
“Just a month ago, you spent $2,000 getting your 10-year-old car’s transmission rebuilt. Now you find out the car is leaking oil and needs a ring job. Do you spend the next thousand or buy a new car? You’ve been living with your romantic partner for 10 years. The relationship has had its ups and downs,… Read more »
#tds2921 The ‘ifs’ of solitude
“For solitude to be beneficial, certain preconditions must be met. Kenneth Rubin, a developmental psychologist at the University of Maryland, calls them the “ifs.” Solitude can be productive only: if it is voluntary, if one can regulate one’s emotions “effectively,” if one can join a social group when desired, and if one can maintain positive… Read more »
#tds2920 Find time for an old hobby
Finding time for hobbies can be difficult when busy. You may not have had much time to indulge in old hobbies or activities that brought you happiness and joy for a while, start again today. Why not get back to something creative? You might: Strum your guitar or play the piano, go through a collection of… Read more »
#tds2919 The Inner Landscape of Beauty
We have not visited our friends at On being for a while. Yet, we decided to bring an old favourite to your attention today: John O’Donohue. From the blurb: “He had a very Celtic, lifelong fascination with the inner landscape of our lives and with what he called “the invisible world” that is constantly intertwining… Read more »
