Well, we have 75 simple pleasures for you to choose today. Image Source Wikimedia Pick one and take time to enjoy it. Show us in a photo. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2846
Posts By: Mariana
#tds2845 Invisible to you, obvious to someone else
Alexandra Horowitz built her enjoyable 2013 book On Looking around this idea: Covering territory she considered familiar, but with experts on typography, plant life, public space, geology, etc. Rob Walker Things that she could not see, were obvious to somebody else who was trained to attend to the world differently. Today take time to talk to somebody… Read more »
#tds2844 A Rhyming Couplet of Stillness
flickr photo by Steve A Johnson http://flickr.com/photos/artbystevejohnson/4621636807 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license Make a short poem that rhymes two words. Twas not a stressful feat, to fit a couplet in this tweet. Whilst I was resting back, some sneaky devil took my snack. In case you need to instuction beyond this lovely example,… Read more »
#tds2843 Today find your centre
It is easier for some of us…but we all have it. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2843
#tds2842 On the struggles of ‘homo smartphonus’
“What happens when we extrapolate Plato’s cave allegory to the cyber-cave experiences of the millennials, and the way in which they experienced their exodus from online reality? This thought experiment produces an image of a group of young adults clustered together in the twilight of their virtual home. Sitting with their backs to the entrance,… Read more »
#tds2841 Reading is useless
“When I titled this post “reading is useless,” I was referring to a Zen saying that goes, “Meditation is useless.” It means that you meditate to meditate, not to use it for something. And like the saying, I’m being provocative. Of course reading is not useless. We read in useful ways all the time and… Read more »
#tds2840 The importance of being a slacker
“Everybody focuses on the most obvious, measurable forms of work and tries to make those more effective and more productive. They don’t ask whether there are other ways to improve performance, and improve your life.This is how we’ve come to believe that world-class performance comes after 10,000 hours of practice. But that’s wrong. It comes… Read more »
#tds2839 How ‘Feierabend’ helps Germans disconnect from the workday
“For Nils Backhaus, who lives in Bochum, just outside Dortmund in Germany, even when he’s working from home commuting is still an essential part of his day that he can’t go without. At the end of the working day, around the time of 1700, the 34-year-old research and policy adviser for Germany’s Federal Institute for… Read more »
#tds2838 The illusion of self
“Above all, writes Ekman, they exhibit “an absence of ego. These people inspire others by how little they make of their status, their fame — in short, their self. They never give a second thought to whether their position or importance is recognized.” Such a lack of egocentricity, he adds, “is altogether perplexing from a… Read more »
#tds2837 Visio Divina
The imagination works through suggestion, not description. Description is always direct and frequently closes off what it names. Suggestion respects the mystery and richness of a thing. All it offers are clues to its nature. Suggestion keeps the mystery open and extends us the courtesy of inviting us to see the thing for ourselves. It… Read more »
#tds2836 Radical Simplicity?
May be today’s daily activity is a little long – can you spare 30 minutes to watch the story of a life lived without consumption? We are not suggesting you take this on to find stillness, yet there may be some wisdom in Dan Price’s words to help us all find a little more space… Read more »
#tds2835 Do we need to get ‘back to life’?
Digital Storytelling site Cowbird.com is closing down. This is not unusual in digital life, platforms come and go all the time. What is unusual here is the rationale for the choice to close the site as explained beautifully above by one of its founders Jonathan Harris. They could have redeveloped, they could have sold, they… Read more »
