Mindfulness is the greatest (and cheapest) escape because you only need your attention to get the most out of your precious break and simply relax and renew

Source: Mindfulness: A New Way of Life – Purpose Fairy

Guitar duets can be inspirational for a lot of reasons, but this reason will catch you off guard. One of the guitarists has no hands. I have to grab this one before @davidkanigan does! :-D

Source: The most inspirational guitar duet you’ll ever see – Holy Kaw!

Spirituality is always eventually about what you do with your pain. It seems our culture has lost its own spiritual foundation and center, and as a result we no longer know what to do with universal pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will always transmit it–to our partner, our spouse, our children, our friends, our coworkers, our “enemies.” Usually we project it outward and blame someone else for causing our pain.

Source: Richard Rohr’s Meditation: Transforming Our Pain

Look! In the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No…it’s a flying boat? This is a weird way to tour Virginia’s beautiful Cape Charles, but it gets the job done.

Source: Take a flying boat tour of Virginia’s Cape Charles – Holy Kaw!

Life follows water

Where there is water there is life, and where there is life there is water. The two are inseparable. This simple realization is imperative to the survival of our species. As humans, we have systematically destroyed an innumerable number of natural ecosystems around the world. These are ecosystems that regulate the transfer of oxygen and carbon, maintain the temperature of the planet, and create the conditions for life as we know it. These are like the organs of the body: when treated properly, they support the life of the whole. When treated improperly, other organs begin to compensate and pick up the slack until they exceed their capacity, after which the health of the whole becomes increasingly compromised.

The structures that we are replacing these ecosystems with (think jungles, savannahs, etc.) are often cities, suburbs, or agricultural lands. Currently, our design of cities, suburbs, and agricultural lands is profoundly linear, extractive, and disconnected from the natural cycles of an ecosystem. Water runs right off the top of these landscapes carrying all of the pollutants that it picks up in the process to the sea. There is no root structure to attract and retain water in these landscapes, and there are hardly any life forms to build and benefit the soil health.

Source: Reflection: A Water Story. | elephant journal

AI is getting an IQ

Source: The Joy of Tech comic… A gathering of robots!

Remember, grills kill!

A mother’s protective instinct is strong across all species. Watch this rat fight off a snake that’s kidnapped (or rat-napped?) its baby.

Source: Momma rat rescues baby from snake – Holy Kaw!

Thinking about moving to Canada after the election? This may help…

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ToddLohenryProfile/posts/HFz8vSNMNr1

Think you know your beer? Take a walk through the rich and detailed evolution of beer with this interesting infographic.

Source: The Fascinating Evolution of Beer