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No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
– Ansel Adams –
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A 10,000 Year Clock in the Mountains
There is a Clock ringing deep inside a mountain. It is a huge Clock, hundreds of feet tall, designed to tick for 10,000 years. Why would anyone build a Clock inside a mountain with the hope that it will ring for 10,000 years? Part of the answer: just so people will ask this question, and having asked it, prompt themselves to conjure with notions of generations and millennia. If you have a Clock ticking for 10,000 years what kinds of generational-scale questions and projects will it suggest? If a Clock can keep going for ten millennia, shouldn’t we make sure our civilization does as well? If the Clock keeps going after we are personally long dead, why not attempt other projects that require future generations to finish? The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, “Are we being good ancestors?” { read more }
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Reflect on your own life, and how you can be a good ancestor. |
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Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers.
– Julio Olalla –
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A Love Affair With Questions
In this beautiful black-and-white vignette, filmmaker Nic Askew interviews a man named Julio Olalla. Julio candidly speaks about an encounter with his father that changed his life, and what he learned: “Gratitude in so many ways is so dramatically missing in the world today. Without gratitude nothing is enough.” Over this 10-minute video, he reflects on his own experiences, ranging from exploring the spirit of true conversation to the wisdom of falling in love with questions. Watching this everyday hero exhibit a characteristic joie de vivre perhaps inspires a shift from the notion of gratitude as being an expression, to gratitude as being an embodiment. { read more }
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Consider all the gifts in your life, and practice embodying gratitude as a response. |
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Being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means that you can invent the language to say who you are and what you mean.
– Toni Morrison –
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20 Untranslatable Words From ‘Round The World
There are at least 250,000 words in the English language. But to think that English — or any language — could hold enough expression to convey the entirety of the human experience is naive. For example, ‘Toska,’ from Russian, which is a kind of dull ache of the soul. Or ‘Mamihlapinatapei,’ from Yagan, describing the wordless, yet meaningful look shared by two people who both desire to initiate something but are both reluctant to start. Here are twenty such examples where other languages have found the right word and English is either speechless — or too verbose. { read more }
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Learn or share a meaningful word from another language with a friend today. |
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Video of the Week
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Jul 01, 2011 |
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An Unlikely Crusader for Food Safety
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| A (formerly) twinkie-lovin Texan and successful Wall Street analyst shares the story of one morning’s family breakfast that changed the course of her life, as well as (she hopes) the course of the American food industry. Realizing that her child was allergic to what she had considered safe foods, Robyn O’Brien put her analytical and research skills to work and discovered far more than she’d wanted to about what’s really in the foods we feed our families. This video will have even the hardened skeptics pondering whether their food habits need some tweaking. |
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Forgive us our trespasses, little creatures everywhere.
– James Stephens –
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A Remarkable Refuge for Birds
They call him the Bird man of Long Beach. “It all started with one little one-legged guy I named Buddy,” ex-marine Dan Lubniewski said. Dan saw the little bird hobbling along, and felt sorry for him. He started feeding him and wound up taking him home for rehab. Apparently, someone had been tying pigeons’ feet together. “They were all tied up the same way, with the same strength,” Dan said. “I didn’t know what I was doing any more than you would have. I had about 40 tools with me them, and no antibiotics. I worked with each one for several hours.” That was the start of Dan’s tireless calling. He has since treated thousands of wounded birds, sometimes even working with Animal Control. “I think I was never happier because of all the lives I’m saving,” Dan said. “It is so rewarding.” { read more }
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If you feel moved by his dedication, write Dan a note of appreciation. { more } |
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A work of art is a gift, not a commodity. Where there is no gift, there is no art.
– Lewis Hyde –
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The Artist Who Gives It All Away
One day, San Francisco artist Jane Baker realized something. Now she operates from a new place — new, but also very old: “I don’t know art history that well, but it is only in the last few hundred years that art has been a commodity. Before that, most artists were doing it out of their love for, frankly, for God or their church. Most of the art that’s been made has not been made for money. So I’m standing with a group that has been around for a lot longer! It’s not a weak, touchy-feely place. What I’ve started feeling is that, yes, they really knew what was right! And it lasted a long time before this particular period we are all in.” Works & Conversations interviews Baker, who has a practice of donating one hundred percent of the income from sales of her artwork to charities. { read more }
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Consider how your own art making can rest on a foundation of service. |
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Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
– Marshall McLuhan –
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Why Invisible Gorillas Matter
Daniel Simons has become one of the most influential young cognitive scientists in the last decade, co-authoring smash-hit studies in two different fields. He’s best-known for his “Gorillas in our Midst” study, co-authored with Christopher Chabris, where viewers are shown a 45-second video of six students tossing around basketballs. Viewers are instructed to carefully count only the passes between players dressed in white. What they aren’t told is that halfway through the video, a woman dressed in a gorilla suit will walk into the middle of the screen, beat her chest, and walk off. Amazingly, when viewers don’t know about the gorilla in advance, about half of them miss it completely. Seed Magazine interviews Simons. { read more }
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Question intuitions and assumptions about how your mind works. Check out the Gorilla demo, a top 10 illusion of the year, and more. { more } |
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Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
– Rumi –
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I Heart Strangers
“Every single day, I went out into the world to seek out someone I had never before met. I introduced myself and asked them if I could photograph them. I took something valuable away from every encounter and did my best to pass that along.” Artist Joshua Langlais started the “I Heart Strangers” project as an attempt to love his neighbors. Starting it in 2008 with the intention of doing it for a year, he kept it up for 625 days. “I get all my inspiration from meeting people and developing relationships. I see community and conversation and loving people as the only things that matter,” Langlais explained. As he went on with the project, he realized that it was actually transforming him. “I learn about myself through the daily processes and continue to grow and better relate to others and genuinely feel more compassion for what is happening to the world around me.” { read more }
Be The Change
Connect with someone you’ve never met — and pour your full presence into that interaction. |
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| Jun 27, 2011 |
| Harvest of kindness — of kindredness — is winnowed down to a precious few grains. For at the center of all spiritual traditions is the beacon of a truly radical proposal: Open your heart to everybody. Everybody.–Marc Barasach |
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 Collection of ideas from Smile Groups this week … “This lady was walking through my neighborhood on such an extremely hot day, realizing there are no bus stops within 5 miles, I made a u-turn and gave her a ride to her destination.” “A man held the door for me at a local coffee shop, he was so perky,I bought him a cup of tea.” “Forwarded a letter that had gone astray and paid the extra postage!” “Emptied the house — books, DVDs, etc. Advertised to come and take what you want and leave a donation in the bucket for a local charity.” “I heard of a competition that I knew I would definitely get a prize so I entered and put down a friends name and address so that they will get the prize. And it’s chocolate!” “Encouraged a guy to come out of his love failure. :)” “I picked lemons from my moms lemon tree and gave them away .. someone going to have delicious fresh lemonade for fathers day!” “Took a senior citizen grocery shopping; she was not feeling well enough to drive herself.” “Last night I helped some foreigners exchange some money into my country’s currency and then my sister and I led them to a hotel. They were lost and didn’t speak the language.” “Lending out a very expensive canopy to someone in need.” “I replaced a drummer in a band that needed one! :)” “Put a dollar inside a book I returned to the library … for either the library people or the next reader to find.”
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| I am a mother of five sons, all grown now. But I remember a day when there were 4 little ones, the youngest being only a couple month. That day, we loaded up the boys in the car and went to the park. My husband took the 3 older boys to go runninig around the park, as sat by the car with the baby. As I looked around, I saw a homeless man sittig on the park bench, when few older boys came up with their bikes and rode in a circle around the man. I couldn’tt hear what was said but one boy rode away with a empty water bottle, filled it up with water and came back to give it to the man. All the boys of different ethnicities sat at the same table; the grill nearby was still warm from an early picnic. Just then, the homeless man went to his cart, came back with a fast food bag with some small hamburgers, and gave each boy a burger that they all warmed them up on the grill and shared a meal together. As I sat there watching, I was so moved and thought, “What a beautiful world.” That was 25 years ago. Our world today is not the same and needs our help now! Let’s reach out to one another. –Mama5 |
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
– Pearl Buck –
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Mother of All Languages
The world’s 6,000 or so modern languages may have all descended from a single ancestral tongue spoken by early African humans around 50,000 years ago, a new study suggests. The finding could help explain how the first spoken language emerged, spread and contributed to the evolutionary success of the human species. Quentin Atkinson, an evolutionary psychologist and author of the study, found that the first migrating populations leaving Africa laid the groundwork for all the world’s cultures by taking their single language with them — the mother of all mother tongues. “It was the catalyst that spurred the human expansion that we all are a product of,” Dr. Atkinson said. { read more }
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“Each day, our tribe of language holds what we call the ‘world’ together.” John O’Donohue explores the depth of language. { more } |
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