“When people look slowly at a piece of art they make discoveries. The most important discovery they make is that they can see and experience art without an expert (or expertise). And that’s an exciting discovery. It unlocks passion and creativity and helps to create more art fans.” Slow art day website Read more about slow art… Read more »
Posts By: Mariana
#tds2354 Birds on the wires
Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo. “Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew it wasn’t the most original idea in the… Read more »
#tds2353 And yes
“And yes we are watching numbers when what we are looking at are people, bodies, lives no more, deaths. Yes we are baking upside down plum cakes and eating salt and vinegar chips and worrying about our children. Yes we are finding it hard to concentrate. Yes we are taking courses and teaching courses and… Read more »
#tds2352 A quiet coffee shop and some laughter
“The Wi-Fi password? Oh, I’m sorry, sir. We no longer have Wi-Fi. Our owners didn’t like how accessible internet made customers fixate so much on their laptops and phones. Instead, they wanted to foster an environment that encouraged customers to interact with each other. That’s what makes our coffee shop different! This is a place… Read more »
#tds2351 The Inner World Is a Great, Undiscovered Terrain
“The point of gathering stillness is not to enrich the sanctuary or the mountaintop, but to bring that reality into the motion, the commotion, of the world.” Pico Iyer Just under 10 minutes of stillness gathering – will you give yourself that time? Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag… Read more »
#tds2350 The summer day
Today, for those already in summer days a poem in praise of the small joys of summer. For those just saying goodbye to summer a poem to remember that time passes and summer will return. Mary Oliver reading one of her poems, a joy any time of the year. Tweet your response to @livedtime and… Read more »
#tds2349 Practise shinrin yoku or forest bathing
“Shinrin-Yoku, translated into English as ‘forest bathing’, means taking in the forest atmosphere during a leisurely walk. It is a therapy that was developed in Japan during the 1980s, becoming a cornerstone of preventive health care and healing in Japanese medicine. Every study conducted so far has demonstrated reductions in stress, anger, anxiety, depression and… Read more »
#tds2348 Finding the fix
From the blurb: “Outer Peace with Florence Williams: Finding The Fix.“We can microdose awe.” Award-winning author of The Nature Fix, Florence Williams, explains what science says about the human body’s deep responsiveness to natural environments, in this exploration of Outer Peace” Today, you can watch the video and check in on how it makes you feel… Read more »
#tds2347 Almost as good as being there
“Chichu … opened as a museum in pursuit of ‘a site to rethink the relationship between nature and people’ in July 2004. The establishment of the museum was a personal way of answering and realising a question that I withheld myself for many years — ‘what does it mean to live well?’ As suggested by its… Read more »
#tds2346 The causes of Zoom fatigue
A recently published paper speaks the ways in which the Zoom platform can cause fatigue. A practical review on the Greater Good Magazine explores four reasons why Zoom can be exhausting. Worth a read and explore ow to ease your digital stress in these times of potentially hours on-screen. The review discusses: Excessive amounts of close-up… Read more »
#tds2345 One second everyday
Life is full of moments. There is an app that allows you to edit 1 second of your day everyday and create a movie of your life with each daily second. The director of the film above was inspired by it to make the movie: life at meal time! Some people’s motivation is to remember… Read more »
#tds2344 How to be polite
“Most people don’t notice I’m polite, which is sort of the point. I don’t look polite. I am big and droopy and need a haircut. No soul would associate me with watercress sandwiches. Still, every year or so someone takes me aside and says, you actually are weirdly polite, aren’t you? And I always thrill…. Read more »
