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Get High Now
This is rather a wondrous book by James Nestor, filled with practical and often hilarious advice on being-ness. The full title of the book is "Get High Now *without drugs" and has, according to the book cover, "over 175 sensory trips and tricks for visual stimulation, compressing time, lucid dreaming, meditation and more." I am getting a copy for all of the dreamers I love. I should mention that the book's website offers an extravaganza ...
Loving Kindness
Send love into your body -- your heart, your cheekbones, your belly. Know that you are love in human form. Beam out love to everyone you have ever met. This kind of love you will beam needs nothing back; it needs nothing more than to make its way from your heart out into the world.
A Chromatic Typewriter: For Re-Writing History
More loveliness from Making it Lovely. This is a conceptual art piece by Tyree Callahan. So dreamy. Image compilation by Making It Lovely. Art and Image by Tyree Callahan.
Being Grateful
I've started to notice that there is something about being grateful that seems to change my way of being in the world. And it seems to me to be another aspect of this notion of having a choice. I can find something or someone to be grateful for. Even if it's just a regular everyday thing, like breakfast. I can think or say to myself: "I'm so grateful for this delicious breakfast." And of course, I ...
Collect stories
When someone speaks to you, let everything slow down, and listen very closely. This is how you will get a glimpse of someone's true spirit, and maybe share a little of yours with them. You can practice this at first with people you already really like, and then as you get better you can even try this with people who initially seem very annoying. Let me know what you find out. Image courtesy of State Library ...
Quantum Physics and the fundamental unity of life
When science bears witness to love. When Russell Brand narrates our enlightenment. When meditating alone brings us closer to everyone. That's what now is.
Yesterday On the River
My darling son Kenny was in town this weekend and we went to the James River, by way of what's known in these parts as Texas Beach. You depart ordinary reality slowly, via a path from a park near Maymont which seems initially rather ordinary. This is, as I'm sure you know, often true of portals. You walk down a dirt path, cross over the railroad tracks via a weirdly God-awful footbridge and set of ...
Link Love: Michael Pollan's Food Rules Animated (VIDEO)
Posted by BrainPickings.com, "Michael Pollan's Food Rules Animated in Stop-Motion" Just lovely. Be sure and vote for Marija and Ben in the RSA competition which ends 3/2/12: "Food Rules" by Michael Pollan - RSA/Nominet Trust competition from Marija Jacimovic on Vimeo. And here is the book, just in case you haven't seen it. You can read it through in around 45 minutes and when you are done, the way you look at food is completely altered. ...
Being Happy and Being Inspired Makes Happy Inspired Art
My dear friend and amazing human being Liz Sheehan is the director of Partners in the Arts, a program that supports arts integration at local schools here in RVA. We know, of course, that art feeds our soul. Our spirits. And kids know this already and way better than we do, but sometimes we just math them and english them to distraction so the part that they know at a deep level -- the language ...
A Primer on Nurturing Yourself | Apartment Therapy
Apartment Therapy has a nice little primer on nurturing yourself. It's stuff you know you want to do -- like eating healthy and doing some form of meditation -- with easy-as-pie ways to stitch them into the fabric of your days. Ways To Use Your Home To Manage Stress & Stay Healthy | Apartment Therapy.
Random beauty, courtesy of 60s era glam
My daughter and I are both obsessed with these lifeguard perches on the beach in Marin. She is lucky: she is just a short drive from them. As I'm on the other coast, my drive is a few thousand miles more. But that's okay - I like the drive.
Fun with DIY: Make Lanterns Using Your Fave Photos
Oh, my goodness, the possibilities are endless with these DIY lanterns. The photos or illustrations could be of anything, yes? Here's the how-to link: DIY House Lanterns Fellow Fellow | Apartment Therapy.
No One Belongs Here More Than You
Miranda July made this website a few years back for her book, "No One Belongs Here More Than You." The book, of course, is wonderful and amazing, as it would have to be with such a title and such an author. The website is seriously my favorite ever. I just wanted to add it here to my on-line scrapbook of wonder. This is a photo from the sequence in her website where she is dressing ...
Kenny in that Grand Canyon [video]
Here is a video of Kenny Crowley, beauty-walker, singer-songwriter, son of mine, singing his anthem to the Grand Canyon and to all of earth. Last summer he retrofitted his pickup truck so it would be a camper/home on wheels and did a big loop during July and August. He left San Francisco and headed straight to the Grand Canyon. Then traveled up to Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, over to Washington and down to Oregon, then California ...
I Love You Anyway
This was on the sidewalk in San Francisco near Kenny's house. What an excellent idea: to love everyone and every thing, no matter what, even though, anyway.
Wyoming, further
The land flattens out, stretches further. Yarrow grows at the roadside. Treeless, here where you'd have to go so deep for water. Scattered cattle ranches, the continental divide. Ethereal, butter-colored place.
bloom: the creative process by artist suzanne l. vinson
Suzanne Vinson is a wonder of love and vitality being expressed through creativity. To walk in to her studio in the Ginter Park Community Center in the north side of RVA is to walk in to a place where ALL THE LIGHTS ARE ON. I am grateful for her and people like her. Here's a post from her blog: life in motherhood, ministry, and the arts: bloom :: the creative process. Image by Suzanne Vinson
In the garden
Radish harvest morning. Also bunny spotting. Also gloriously beautiful. Also camera batteries passing out. Also astonishing growth from the plants in the recent night rain. Also a voice in me that says: receive. Breathe in. Receive. There is nothing to get, even as I ricochet, even as I list-make, even as I figure out, forage. There are bunnies, radishes, flowers. There is a woman in a robe drinking coffee, going back in the house for fresh cameras. ...
Into the mystic (VIDEO)
Ah, it's played at last. No road trip would be complete without it.
Tibetan Sound Healing (VIDEO)
Enjoy this pure love...
Remember your joy: being Aunt Bea
Walk into the place where you live and see if it is dark. See if the tv is on, if the dishes are stacked in the sink. Smile at the room, as though you are Aunt Bea from the Andy Griffith show and are about to fix everything. If you have an apron, this would be an excellent time to put it on. If you don’t have one, and you think it may prove handy, get ...
Clean: The Beginning of a Four-Week Detox
This week, I've started a cleanse, after going back to this book Clean, by Alejandro Junger. Gwyneth Paltrow recommends it on GOOP, and since I do everything Gwyneth says to do, I got the book and went through it last spring. This spring I'm actually doing the cleanse. In fact, my mom and I are doing it together. Though the website offers lots of products to use in case you are so busy you don't ...
Brackets
I have never really been a sports-watcher, unless it's U.S. Open Tennis matches between Nadal and Federer or possibly Italian and French men playing soccer. Talk about beauty being everywhere. When I was little and the entire family was watching sports and yelling at the teams on the television, drinking Tab and eating grilled cheese sandwiches -- all activities which were foreign to my sensitive little self -- I pretty much assumed I was adopted. I ...
Animal, you, animal, me
These images by Gregory Colbert in his exhibit, Ashes and Snow, make me feel completely weepy. Just go look. Feel all the peace pouring from the animals, from the you and the me? This is what we're meant for, my dear ones. This is where we're going. Right...about...now. Image by Gregory Colbert, Ashes and Snow
How to clear your space energetically
I use lots of tools for clearing my space and my body energetically, just depending on what feels right at the time. Here are some of them: Lemons. Another healer taught me to cut up a couple of lemons and add them to the bath to immediately clear my energetic field of any energies that are no longer serving my highest good. I also drink a lot of water with lemons in it. Dried white sage smudge sticks. ...
Oprah on Stillness and Meditation
Hey now, a gathering of goddesses!! I am pretty sure we're all going to love the world these women are dreaming up for us. Oprah on Stillness and Meditation - Oprah Visits Fairfield Iowa, a/k/a TM Town.
The definition of happiness
Happy Sunday, you beautiful world. Today we meditate on happiness, here at TheBeautyThatIsEverywhere.com. Play this lovely little video montage of "Roman Holiday" put together by RavewoodLamenti for her sister's birthday. When you see Audrey Hepburn sleeping happily on the bench, drowsily say these words for her: "SO O O O HAPPY..." And then, perhaps, pay a visit to the incredibly lovely Wordswarm.net and look up the definition of happiness....here are a couple of excerpts from Wordswarm ...
What if?
What if no job or house or car or ideal weight or ideal husband is what is going to make you shine? What if there’s a bucket of magic in your secret heart and everything you witness stands transfixed, watching you, awaiting that moment when you smile and start flinging that sparkle everywhere. What if everything simply waits for the love of you? What if there are places in you waiting for you to love them. To love them anyway. And if you ...
The Healthy Apple's Healthy Food Shopping List
This is a really thoughtful healthy food shopping list put together by Amie Valpone of The Healthy Apple: Your Guide to Clean Eating. I am a new fan! With a list like this, you and your shopping cart will feel so very beautiful. Image courtesy of Amie Valpone, The Healthy Apple.com.
My Planet: Healing with Whales and Other Stories
My dear and lovely friend Leah Lamb has launched My-Planet.org, and with it brings to life her dream of connecting people with our amazing planet -- and those who share it with us -- through stories. Let's join with her and start to tell beautiful stories of each other, of our oceans, our trees, our home. There's enough awfulness pouring out of the television set to dash our hopes if we let it. If we focus ...

Corie Does My Hair

Every day, fresh wonder from Corie. I’m just loving #moviehairoftheweek, which I find hilarious and satisfying, all at the same time. And I don’t think it’s just because I’m her mother.

www.coriedoesmyhair.com

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Feeding Myself Healthy Food
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EWG's Skin Deep Cosmetics Database
Have you heard about this database of beauty products? You can look up the…
Quantum Physics and the fundamental unity of life
When science bears witness to love. When Russell Brand narrates our…
Breathing
You know about breathing. Breathing in and out. So what I am saying to…
Loving Kindness
Send love into your body -- your heart, your cheekbones, your belly. Know…

Clean: The Beginning of a Four-Week Detox
This week, I've started a cleanse, after going back to this book Clean, by Alejandro Junger.…
The Foxfire Books: How to Make Moonshine, Rain and Fiddles
My friend Katie, who grew up in the mountains of North Carolina, mentioned the "hippy Foxfire…
The Happiness Project
And while we are on the subject of happiness this week, let's give a shout out to The Happiness…
Link Love: Michael Pollan's Food Rules Animated (VIDEO)
Posted by BrainPickings.com, "Michael Pollan's Food Rules Animated in Stop-Motion" Just lovely. …
Get High Now
This is rather a wondrous book by James Nestor, filled with practical and often hilarious advice on…
Expecting Adam
This is one of those books that filled me with light. Martha Beck writes about her pregnancy with…
Ordinary Life
A quote from Jan Frazier, "When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening" --What do I want…
No One Belongs Here More Than You
Miranda July made this website a few years back for her book, "No One Belongs Here More Than You."…
"Glad No Matter What:" A Book by SARK
I am reading this really lovely book by Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (aka SARK), called Glad No…

Stranger than Fiction
Do you ever feel as though your life is being narrated? Or as though you may…
Darjeeling Limited
Pretty, pretty movie, the Darjeeling Limited. That's just how Wes Anderson…
It was always about the dance
You know that, don't you, Scott Hastings? Maybe the Ballroom Dancing…
Take Polaroids of Your TV Screen
Take Polaroids of your tv screen while Lucas dances, black eyes, black hair,…
Little Miss Sunshine
I just had my Little Miss Sunshine moment with some lovely adobe colored…

In the garden
Radish harvest morning. Also bunny spotting. Also gloriously beautiful. Also camera batteries…
Sprouts
There's a garden that grows in the backyard, sprouts coming up from seeds. Every morning, more…
How about awesome?
Awesome people hanging out together: an awesome Tumblr blog. This will cheer you up if you need…
Little Portals
Sometimes I want to give you everything. Yes, you, reading this now. I sit in the morning darkened…
Being Happy and Being Inspired Makes Happy Inspired Art
My dear friend and amazing human being Liz Sheehan is the director of Partners in the Arts, a…
Being Grateful
I've started to notice that there is something about being grateful that seems to change my way of…
Angels in plain sight
Imagine that everywhere you go, there are angels in plain sight. Your waiter, for…
What if?
What if no job or house or car or ideal weight or ideal husband is what is going to make you…
Loving Kindness
Send love into your body -- your heart, your cheekbones, your belly. Know that you are love in…
Take a train
Take a train in the morning. Sit on the side where the sun is and watch it light the trees, the…

Yesterday On the River
My darling son Kenny was in town this weekend and we went to the James River, by way of what's…
My Planet: Healing with Whales and Other Stories
My dear and lovely friend Leah Lamb has launched My-Planet.org, and with it brings to life her…
Animal, you, animal, me
These images by Gregory Colbert in his exhibit, Ashes and Snow, make me feel completely weepy. Just…
Link Love: Michael Pollan's Food Rules Animated (VIDEO)
Posted by BrainPickings.com, "Michael Pollan's Food Rules Animated in Stop-Motion" Just lovely. …
Being Tree-like
You may not seem to be doing anything much in the way of production, like clocking work hours or…
Still
I was walking by the ocean today with some dear and lovely friends and found myself thinking of…
One Love, One Heart (VIDEO)
This video, a compilation piece performed by musicians all around adding their part, had me…
Aurora Borealis in Finnish Lapland 2011
I found this on laughingsquid.com. Such a lovely place to find delight. Aurora Borealis in…
Utah's salt flats
Just surreal. That white you see is…
This makes me want to learn how to knit. For real this time...
...and to learn more about these fabulous people at Fibershed. Here's an excerpt from the Etsy…

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