Your stillness exercise today is to do the digital amnesia quiz and then tell us if it will change how you relate to your memory or your gadgets. If you are can take a little time to read about this it may help with actions. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include… Read more »
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#tds2439 Overlooked object scavenger hunt
The point is to attend to some recurring thing that is ubiquitous, but that nobody is making any particular effort for me to notice. Rob Walker Need a list of commonly overlooked objects? Pick one, take time to go on your scavenger hunt. Show us in a photo! Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to… Read more »
#tds2438 Leisure – a poem by W.H.Davies
A recent daily reading suggestion included this poem. We thought some of you might enjoy John Gielgud reading it. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2438
#tds2437 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 #tds2437
#tds2436 Overlooked object scavenger hunt
The point is to attend to some recurring thing that is ubiquitous, but that nobody is making any particular effort for me to notice. Rob Walker Need a list of commonly overlooked objects? Pick one, take time to go on your scavenger hunt. Show us in a photo! Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to… Read more »
#tds2435 Life is not personal
“Mind — in its tiniest form — is what comes between us and the world around us. And mind, many have said — since the Stoics and before — is what projects our imperfect longings and understanding onto reality. It’s not events that undo us, it’s what we make of them.” Pico Iyer Listen… Read more »
#tds2434 Solitude is the soul’s holiday
“Solitude is the soul’s holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.” Katrina Kenison Find a quiet spot, may be even print the article linked to above or use a reading app for no distractions, make a favourite drink and savour Katrina’s words….‘there comes a moment.’ Tweet your… Read more »
#tds2433 Consider Voluntary Poverty
Today we consider voluntary poverty. We have explored this before with the example of the man who gave up money, for example. This time we look at Thoreau’s idea of voluntary poverty. Apparently, it inspired the voluntary simplicity movement but they shied away from poverty as they thought it would be a harder sell than… Read more »
#tds2432 Ephemeral art for stillness
This site creates a pictorial imagination. Here, a series of over 2000 real paintings generates a perpetual stream of an infinite number of virtual images. Every second, a new virtual painting is born; each lasting only a moment before giving way to another equally unique virtual image without leaving a trace of its existence. The… Read more »
#tds2431 What matters in the end
In case you are too busy to do the activity: What matters at the end of our lives, is how we lived the end of that life rather than how long it could be extended. We need to ask: What does a good day look like? rather than Do we fight or do we give… Read more »
#tds2430 Guesswork matters
“Technology shows up in our lives so often that it’s hard to identify when it has infiltrated some new place. And in its initial guise, it’s usually so helpful that we have no choice but to embrace it. Who doesn’t want the perfect shade of foundation, the “best fit” college experience? If a little digital… Read more »
#tds2429 Close your eyes
Stop what you are doing. Close your eyes. Rest and refresh your eyesore a few minutes. Take time to consider what internal seeing might mean. This practice is adapted from the work of Deborah Haynes. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds2429
