“Working Hard? Take a Break! ‘I know [ ] you are hard at work and need no distractions. Soooo, here’s a dive into Wikiverse. “An interactive 3D visualization of Wikipedia reimagined as a cosmic web of knowledge.” Dive in. Thank me later’ David Amerland Finding digital stillness in the Wikiverse. Enjoy and take a few… Read more »
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#tds494 Old and young
As seasons change we can reflect on impermanence and life cycle. Young leaves, old leaves coexisting. Take a photo. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds494
#tds493 Breath, Word, and Deed
“This simple act of weaving breath, narration, and action can transform us physiologically, psychologically, and spiritually. Physiologically, Breath, Word, and Deed reverses our fight-or-flight feedback loop. When we addicts amp ourselves up on ambition, we trigger a regularly scheduled release of cortisol and adrenaline. These stress hormones give us a better buzz than a hipster-brewed… Read more »
#tds492 Finding our ground in conversation
Notegraphy Do a close reading of this poem. In what ways might embodying this poem help us with interpersonal attention? Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds492
#tds491 Seeing beyond ‘this lousy world’
It is working with our mind rather than trying to change everything in the outside that will cool down our tempers and allow calm cool stillness in our life. What is a nugget you took from this 2 minute video? Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds491
#tds490 Honesty for empathy
“Where we cannot go in our mind, our memory, or our body is where we cannot be straight with another, our world, or our self.” David Whyte Are you feeling brave enough to spend 10 minutes with human grief? From the Vimeo site: “Mark Pellington’s new film project, Honesty, is inspired by poet David Whyte’s… Read more »
#tds489 Bored and brilliant – Delete that app
“Your instructions for today: delete it. Delete that app. Think about which app you use too much, one that is the bad kind of phone time. You pick what that means. Delete said time-wasting, bad habit app. Uninstall it.” One more from Bored and Brilliant – we could not resist! Listen to the challenge podcast and learn why *that… Read more »
#tds488 Bored and brilliant – A photo free day
“Your instructions: See the world through your eyes, not your screen. Take absolutely no pictures today. Not of your lunch, not of your children, not of your cubicle mate, not of the beautiful sunset. No picture messages. No cat pics.” Listen to the Bored and Brilliant podcast for more instructions (6 minutes) if you need and… Read more »
#tds487 Solitude and mutuality
Today, Sherry Turkle quotes Thoreau to explain the connection between solitude and conversation. Listen to the podcast where she sums up the key ideas in her latest book ‘reclaiming conversation‘ which is ‘not an anti-technology book but a pro-conversation book!’she tells us. Listen to find out how she spends her days: watching people at stop… Read more »
#tds486 The difference between connection and conversation
If we remove the hard work of relating from our interactions we are left with ‘mere connection’ Listen to a 15 minute interview with Sherry Turkle about how relating is affected by ‘just connecting’. We become intolerant of the ‘boring’ real conversation and prefer the perfectly edited text – what may be the negative… Read more »
#tds485 Explore the effects of increasing digital connections
“A revolution in technology has connected us online more than ever before: Nearly 60 percent of Americans now have a Facebook account. Digital connections have replaced informal interaction with neighbors and acquaintances. And a quarter of Americans say they have no best friend to confide in. Some caution the decline in face-to-face interactions has led… Read more »
#tds484 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 #tds484
