Studies show that reading printed material instead of on screens helps you better retain information. Source: This Is How The Way You Read Impacts Your Memory And Pr | Fast Company

To keep a journal is to have a safe space where you can write down your innermost thoughts and feelings and be really honest with yourself. Source: Journal Yourself Back to Life with These 5 Questions — Purpose Fairy

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According to Leonard Koren, wabi-sabi can be defined as “the most conspicuous and characteristic feature of traditional Japanese beauty and it occupies roughly the same position in the Japanese pantheon of aesthetic values as do the Greek ideals of beauty and perfection in the West.” [3]
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An interesting metaphor that I just come across today…

As a philosophy, kintsugi (or kintsukuroi) can be seen to have similarities to the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, an embracing of the flawed or imperfect.[10][11] Japanese aesthetics values marks of wear by the use of an object. This can be seen as a rationale for keeping an object around even after it has broken and as a justification of kintsugi itself, highlighting the cracks and repairs as simply an event in the life of an object rather than allowing its service to end at the time of its damage or breakage.[12]Kintsugi can relate to the Japanese philosophy of “no mind” (無心 mushin), which encompasses the concepts of non-attachment, acceptance of change and fate as aspects of human life.[13]“ Not only is there no attempt to hide the damage, but the repair is literally illuminated… a kind of physical expression of the spirit of mushin….Mushin is often literally translated as “no mind,” but carries connotations of fully existing within the moment, of non-attachment, of equanimity amid changing conditions. …The vicissitudes of existence over time, to which all humans are susceptible, could not be clearer than in the breaks, the knocks, and the shattering to which ceramic ware too is subject. This poignancy or aesthetic of existence has been known in Japan as mono no aware, a compassionate sensitivity, or perhaps identification with, [things] outside oneself. ”— Christy Bartlett, Flickwe..
Source: Kintsugi – Wikipedia

You can read more about this artist, Michael Hedges, here…

Michael Hedges was born in Sacramento, the son of Dr. Thayne Alden Hedges and Ruth Evelyn Hedges Ipsen. Hedges’ life in music began in Enid, Oklahoma, as he flirted with various instruments before focusing on flute and guitar. Continue reading “Aerial Boundaries” →

Ah, you know it yourself, Lord, through having borne the anguish of it as a man: on certain days the world seems a terrifying thing: huge, blind, and brutal. It buffets us about, drags us along, and kills us with complete indifference. Heroically, it may truly be said, man has contrived to create a more or less habitable zone of light and warmth in the midst of the cold, dark waters—a zone where people have eyes to see, hands to help, and hearts to love. But how precarious that habitation is! At any moment the vast and horrible thing may break in through the cracks—the thing we try hard to forget is always there, separated from us by a flimsy partition: fire, pestilence, storms, earthquakes. Or the unleashing of dark moral forces—these callously sweep away in one moment what we have laboriously built up and beautified with all our intelligence and all our love.  ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Divine Milieu, p. 112 Source: TEILHARD FOR TROUBLED TIMES – Part 1 – Omega Center

If you’ve never really explored it before, drinking whisky can be intimidating. Deciding what whisky to try first is a big decision. And once you decide, should you put in on ice? Drink it straight up? Try it with water? And how are you supposed to taste all these crazy flavors people keep saying you’ll pick up when you sip on it? Source: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started Drinking Whisky

Auch heute ist viel passiert: Die wichtigsten, schönsten und berührendsten Bilder des Tages sehen Sie in unseren Bildern des Tages. Source: Überraschend, emotional und kurios: Die Bilder des Tages

Daniela Crescenzio hat nach italienischen Spuren in München gesucht und sehr viele gefunden. Besonders prägend: die Frauen und das Wappen der Visconti. Source: Stadtspaziergang: Auf Italiens Spuren in München

Is Facebook too big for anyone to understand how big it really is? Even Mark Zuckerberg? Source: 35: Facebook is the field democracy plays out on (and that’s not good)

Somewhere in here is an idea you need now…

Every Sunday morning I look forward to reading and listening to some special content. Here’s a little look into the ritual:

Sarah von Bargen’s Web Time Wasters post usual starts like this and ends up who knows where:

What’d you get up to this week, guys? I home-happy-hour-ed with a friend I don’t see enough, took a first aid class, and crossed ‘Try Sonora Grill’s eggplant fries’ off my new things list! Links for you! A new-to-me website: Herself. Essays and photos of women’s bodies. I know it sounds crazy but fried cabbage… Source: Web Time Wasters –

I also like the two posts that come from PostSecret:

• Classic Secrets
• Sunday Secrets

I either like to listen to a little Baroque music (one of the types of music known to stimulate your brain). Like this:

Finally? I like to listen to a podcast by Tara Brach or another Buddhist thought leader…

Jack Kornfeld, Eric Zimmer of The One You Feed, The Minimalists also have great reflective content for Sundays. How about you? Share your Sunday ritual in the comments below…

Rocky is not just a good sports movie. It’s also a good lesson in screenwriting. This video analyzes what writers can learn from Rocky. Source: What writers can learn from Rocky – Holy Kaw!