For 10 minutes today, start work by writing a positive e-mail or text praising or thanking or forgiving somebody you know. The idea is to do this for a different person each day and may be include yourself in the ‘somebody you know’ list? Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure… Read more »
Posts By: Mariana
#tds2677 Walk a mile
Today, find somebody willing to engage with some interpersonal attenting and go for a short “in their shoes” walk. The shoe ‘owner’ talks, while you as the shoe ‘holder’ actively listens, without replying or talking back. If your companion is up for it you can swap over roles at the 10 minute mark, and then just… Read more »
#tds2676 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 #tds2676
#tds2677 photograph a colour
Pick a colour for the day. Notice it anywhere you go. Take photos. Pick the best one to show us. Did you notice that setting an intention to notice something, helped you pay attention and be more aware of your surroundings? Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2677
#tds2675 The power of deceleration
“The first thing I ask them to do in the research process is to spend a painfully long time looking at that object. Say a student wanted to explore the work popularly known as Boy with a Squirrel, painted in Boston in 1765 by the young artist John Singleton Copley. Before doing any research in… Read more »
#tds2674 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 #tds2674
#tds2673 Solitude in the abandoned
Read the wonderful article about Joao Bernardino’s photographs (Wayback Machine link as old link seems to have rotted) and extra stillness points if you take your own photo showing ‘solitude in the abandoned’. The example here is By @johnjohnston from a previous publishing of this activity. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include… Read more »
#tds2672 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 #tds2672
#tds2671 Noticing quiet paths
Walk your way to a path of stillness today, take a photo. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2671
#tds2670 Morning Stillness
Morning stillness in Italy by M. Carotenuto. Show us morning stillness in your world today. Take a photo. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2670
#tds2669 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 »
#tds2668 Lean into what makes us human
“Our new notions of personal boundaries come courtesy of younger generations raised online, who had to find their own limits, or else allow the performative, always-on world to overwhelm them. The writer and podcaster Emma Gannon, in her book (Dis) connected, advises reconnecting with friends, not obsessing over our online selves, and going analogue to… Read more »
