⚡️ Enlightening Bolts

⭕️ The Inner Ring: C. S. Lewis warns that the human craving to belong to exclusive “inner rings” can quietly corrupt one’s character and the only truly fulfilling circle is formed not by chasing status but by focusing faithfully on good work and genuine companionship. Read it here.

📞 Internet Phone Book: An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators. Learn more here.

🎸 Jeff Buckley on Grace: The musician explains how grace is not weakness and can be the antidote to destruction: Watch it here.

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🎇 Image of The Week

“High above Norway, a rare and breathtaking sight appears as cloud iridescence paints the sky in soft, shimmering pastels. This stunning phenomenon occurs when sunlight passes through thin layers of clouds filled with tiny ice crystals or water droplets. As the light bends and scatters, it creates a rainbow-like effect that ripples across the sky in delicate hues of pink, green, blue, and violet. It is nature’s version of a watercolor masterpiece. Fleeting, ethereal, and almost otherworldly.” See the video here.

🎯 Reclaim Your Attention

​There is endless drama and spectacle available to consume us all. Seductive algorithms generate daily tidal waves of distraction that drown us in trivialities and falsehoods. The internet can be a powerful tool for accessing knowledge but it can just as easily serve as a black hole for your attention.​

We have to remember what really matters. The dizzying buzz of social media and 24-hour news cycle can keep us constantly preoccupied while the real lights in our lives burn out. Turn to the hearth of your world: the intimate surroundings and the warmth of the people you cherish as they are the real engines of significance in your life.

Break the spell of the screen and make eye contact with quality time, laughter, and precious memories. Our time here is short. Tomorrow is not promised so say "I love you" with enthusiasm. Allow yourself to spark a conversation, to ask an intriguing question, and to lean in for the answer.

The drama never ends so make space by the fire for that which truly nourishes you. Reclaim your attention and use it to water seeds of meaning. You will be better for it and the world will be made better because of it.

👋 Echoes of Moments

Ponder this lesson from Judi Dench:

🤓 Learn This Word

Hocketing: This word refers to music making with rapid alternation between members of an ensemble to create melodies or interlocking rhythms, often with each member responsible for just one or two notes.

⏳ From The Archives

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Encountering Trees

“From the old-growth forests whose presence precedes our lifetimes to the rooted sentinels of our own backyards, trees are humans’ oldest and most constant companions. Since the very beginning we have been intimately linked with these beings, sharing breath within Earth’s great respiration of carbon and oxygen. And while we often reduce trees to ornaments within our landscapes and consume them as expendable resources, they constantly invite us—through bloom, shade, wonder, breath—into closer relationship. In this practice, you are encouraged to respond to such gifts with a renewed quality of attention. Acknowledging the threads that bind you and the tree together within a shared biosphere, see what emerges as you hold an intention to simply be in the presence of a tree.”

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