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We want to see our cities overflowing with urban gardens, horizontal and vertical, until our cities are thoroughly home-grown. Over at Wired, Clive Thompson is of a similar mind – except it’s victory gardening that he wants to see as the driving force. (Here’s our Vanessa on the same topic)."You know you’re a shopaholic if a thief steals all your credit cards and goes …
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Find the space.
This week’s featured photographer: James Jordan
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I love this photo because to me it says “Yes, this is ridiculous…and there’s nothing you can do about it!”
It reminds me of so many memorable stunts from the indomitable women I am lucky to have in my life. Stasie, a suburban church-going schoolteacher and young wife, running over the arbitrarily placed circle of cones at a concert in calm defiance of stupidity. Apparently she’d just had enough! (I’m pretty sure her husband loved it.) My mother shooing a young rattlesnake out of our Northern California mountain townhome with a broom – unforgettable to my four-year-old …
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"Sara, don’t reheat the coffee!"
Wise words from an office mate who caught me in the hopeful (all right, desperate) act of reheating my latte. What she meant was that by "reheating the coffee", we are tempted try to recreate the memorable intensity of a satisfying experience, whether it’s that infamous trip to Palm Springs with your best girlfriend…or just a really great latte. Of course, this never works because it – whatever "it" is – is no longer fresh but forced.
The time he said "I love you" – and meant …
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We live in a culture where beauty is just another commodity and our things own us instead of the other way around. Things to fix us, things to make us better, things to make us beautiful. Of course, when we focus only on external sources of improvement, we are reduced to mere things, as well. Ours may be a culture that sanctions shopping as the highest good and considers a perfect appearance of paramount importance, but despite the crush of it all, I hope you’ll stop for this moment to remember:
You’re already beautiful.
Visit YouAreBeautiful …
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Whatever you’ve done, he does not approve.
I’m choosing Mr. Angry as this week’s photo because every time I look at him, he makes me laugh. We all know those souls who take themselves a little too seriously, don’t we? Of course, sometimes it’s you. Combative, self-righteous, or garden-variety moral outrage, we all have those moments where we become comically defiant. (I know this because I am famous among my friends and family for what they refer to as “lectures”. I prefer passionate expression but that’s me.)
Fortunately, in the company of those who love and respect us, …
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Sara, your editor, here. I hope you’ll take a moment with me to enjoy this cheerful slice of life pictured above. Take a moment to forget about tasks and things and lists and stuff.
It’s easy to dwell on the past and worry about the future instead of accepting the joy in the present moment. Our culture all but sanctions it. You don’t have to read Eckhart Tolle (or any of his philosophical predecessors) to know that the act of simply being is essential to fulfillment.
Personally, I’m just …
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