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OMG I love this so much: The NYPL has released an album of sound-based experiences that you might be missing right now as we all shelter at home: Missing Sounds of New York.
(via Kottke)
What are your go to guided meditations in anxiety inducing times like this?
— Tina Roth Eisenberg (@swissmiss) March 12, 2020
So many good answers in this thread. Feel free to add your tip below in a comment.
One guy, singing Bon Jovi’s Livin’ On A Prayer, gets an entire park to sing along with him. This is everything.
– Whereby video conferencing is completely browser based, no installs necessary. Just share a URL and start chatting. (via Dense Discovery)
– Immigrant hat. Want.
– The No Phone Air made me laugh. Well played.
– 20 people who quit. (via Chris)
– These earrings. Swoon!
– What color is your name? (via Coudal)
– Quirky cool: Two Hump Handbag.
– This Wifi Network name is so wholesome. Made me smile.
– Awesome merchandise makes me want to make, you know, merchandise.
– Gah, this coffee maker!
– “According to the latest research, encouraging your children to think critically about the media they’re consuming is much more important than playing screen-time babysitter.” How to Raise Media-Savvy Kids in the Digital Age
– Favorite place to buy art (or more specifically, prints)? Some good answers in this thread.
– “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” — Carl Jung
– Yes, there is a global job board for heart-forward creative humans.
– Who is the Macaroni to your cheese?
– A big thank you to Float for sponsoring my blog this week
This house! It’s called the Gjøvik House, situated an hour outside of Oslo, Norway and designed by Norm Architects. Stunning.
– How to Build a Sobriety Toolbox
– Now this is a practical way to protect your AirPods and keep them handy. Want!
– How to Find Your Brand Heart (Plus Free Workbook Template) (via)
– Kottke’s list of Best Books of 2019
– Why Does Time Slow Down and Speed Up?
– The Difficult Art of Giving Space in Love: Rilke on Freedom, Togetherness, and the Secret to a Good Marriage
– Intuitive hat. I’d wear it.
– You like to cook? You know about Smitten Kitchen, right?
– How to Set Your Google Data to Self-Destruct
– These Bath Robes make me swoon.
– Life Goals: A New York woman dressed as a unicorn has made something as mundane as clearing snow from her driveway a little more magical!
– What a beautiful read: “Please tell me how I can love you better.” (via Joanna)
– Tattly Stocking Stuffers! The tattoos are temporary, the fun is not.
– Trying to find a new job? Trying to hire a heart-forward, kind, creative human? CreativeMornings has a global job board that can help.
– A big thank you to Ode to Things for sponsoring my blog and RSS Feed this week.
“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend”.
— Albert Camus
“Satisfaction is always available. It is just not always looked for. If, when you enter any experience, you enter with curiosity, respect and interest you will emerge enriched and with awareness you have been enriched. Awareness of enrichement is what satisfaction is.”
“There is nothing more revealing than to see a thinking person walking, just as there is nothing more revealing than to see a walking person thinking… Walking and thinking are in a perpetual relationship that is based on trust.”
— Thomas Bernard
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”
— John Muir
Bibo Bee Hotel is here to help solitary bees who are struggling to find a natural place to hibernate.
SO MUCH YES! This talk by Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya resonates so deeply.

This atmospheric record has circular grooves on its “drop” side, allowing raindrop sounds to loop endlessly. Lovely.
– 77 Life Rules for Photographers
– An incomplete list of 30 things I learned in 30 years
– Stunning! Murmuration: 10,000 Porcelain Birds Create a Calligraphic Landscape at the National Gallery of Victoria
– 10 Things to Remember About Memorial Day
– Mark One is one of my favorite pens.
– I dig this lucky clover object.
– Heartwarming thread about Floyd Martin, a mailman of 35 years.
– An Old-School Photo Birthday Cake. FUN!
– I know some folks who would proudly wear this Spreadsheet Hat.
– Pasta machine. Fascinating.
– This brass apple paper weight is ideal to keep a cook book open while cooking. Also, pretty.
– Defeated vs Inspired Thinking.
– This is fascinating: Emoji are showing up in court cases exponentially, and courts aren’t prepared
– Now this is a tea light candle holder I can get behind.
– These plant stands are cute.
– Not that I would ever buy a Lacoste T-Shirt, but this made me look: Lacoste swaps famous crocodile logo for ten endangered species
– An ongoing series of digital mobiles by illustrator and animation director Jimmy Simpson.
– “This is the difference between profit and true wealth.” —
@hamdiulukaya
– This makes me uncomfortable but I can’t stop looking.
– Looking for a new job in a creative company? Check out the CreativeMornings job board.
– A big thank you to Parsons at Open Campus for sponsoring my blog and RSS Feed this week.
Completely mesmerized by Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir. The Virtual Choir is a global phenomenon, creating a user-generated choir that brings together singers from around the world and their love of music in a new way through the use of technology. Singers record and upload their videos from locations all over the world. Each one of the videos is then synchronised and combined into one single performance to create the Virtual Choir.
(I recently started a real life choir, inspired by James Sill’s CreativeMornings “talk: last December!)

I love the idea of a Noticing Wall – a zero-pressure space for parents and kids to write notes to each other, ask questions, jot down fun things you learned, and make plans. I’ll definitely give this a try!
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