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i think...

a little paradigm shifting illustration from Charles Darwin's note book.

found here

recommended read

this journey is very good indeed...

Saturday Poem

Shel Silverstein

(found here)

Intent

Yumi Sakugawa's Intent Comics.

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Illustration by Yumi Sakugawa

Best Practice

“Best Practice” is a letter to oneself. A pseudo-dream where reassurances and self taught coping mechanisms intersect a shuffle of memories. It is an adventure of self care, by cartoonist and painter Joshua Jarrett.

(via The Rumpus)

Gordon Hewes

There are minimal health benefits to sitting (repeatedly) in a chair, and yet, as Katy Bowman describes in her new book Move Your DNA, the typical childhood is spent making chair sitting a fine art. 

“after a couple of years, sitting still in your chair would be your most-practiced skill, trumping time spent reading, writing, playing games, and physical education in school. Like a ninja of sitting, you practiced sitting still in a chair more than any other activity, with hours and hours in training, with no other learned activity even coming close in time spent practicing.”

--Katy Bowman in "Move Your DNA"

It’s time to start thinking outside the chair and practicing new positions. In her work, Katy cites physical anthropology professor Gordon W. Hewes study, World Distribution of Certain PosturalHabits. Hewes examined 100 different resting postures from all around the world.  As fate would have it, most of these positions don’t involve chairs.
Inspiration!

Alternatives to sitting in a chair. From Hewes "World Distribution of Certain Postural Habits"
Notice how nobody's at a standing desk. (Here is what Katy says about that...)


But before you get rid of all your sofas, make sure you are working within your actual joint range. Work with progressions and load your new found freedom slowly by using bolsters/blankets/cushions to help make your new floor office comfortable.

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Friday!

Enjoy your weekend...get out into the world. Get lost. Let your words get weird, let your voice get loud and don't worry about what others think of you, it's none of your business.

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Oh

Ed Ruscha and Rachel Malin

(both found here rachelmalin)

stretching

Illustrations by Emily Isabella

Feeling

From lastnightsreading

Attitude of Gratitude

Head over to The Sphinx and The Milky Way and read this beautiful piece on gratitude. It made me cry.

"I think a lot about gratitude. It’s easy for us to have it when we are doing something that brings us great joy, or comfort: when we are with a friend who make us laugh, when we receive good news that alleviates worry, when we are in the presence and beauty of nature. But, what about all the other times, times that are challenging, and full of more difficult feelings like pain and sadness. And even times when the unthinkable happens, like when the person we love most in our life dies.

It leaves me wondering - Do we abandon gratitude during the times when we might need it the most?" 

 

-- Lauren Spencer King

(image from junglewizz)

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Shapeshifter

Shapeshifter 2008
Handbound book, 44 pages

by Caroline Gaedechens