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🌀🐇 #302 one great stream, we are stardust, the art that washes away
Plus An Endless Game of I Spy
⚡️ Enlightening Bolts
🌌 A Message For Beings of Space: A tender invitation to recognize yourself as a being of space, and to meet the world with courage, curiosity, and care instead of reflex. Read it here.
🎨 Why Your Best Work Happens When You Stop Taking It Too Seriously: A video essay on creative block, perfectionism, and the strange freedom that arrives when you loosen your grip and let a little play back into the work. Watch it here.
🔍 Wiki Spy: An endless, searchable game of I Spy stitched together from objects cut out of Wikipedia. Search by color or concept, or click anything to find its kin. Explore it here.
🎇 Image of The Week
An ephemeral earthscape by Andres Amador, raked into the beach by hand at low tide and left for the returning waves to erase. The lone figure walking through it gives a sense of the scale. See more of his work on Andres Amador’s site.
🌊 The Great Stream
We are not what we are conditioned to think we are.
A river owes its shape to the landscape as much as it does to the flowing water.
There is an inextricable co-sculpting dynamic “you” have been participating in since you got here. Your nexus of attention, the sphere of your world, is a stitch in the great cosmic fabric.
This is something that can be contemplated intellectually but indescribably more powerful when felt. To experience ourselves fully embedded in the great stream of being.
From this place, everything is enshrined in significance.
🌍 On the Way Home
Reflect on these words from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell:
The biggest joy was on the way home. In my cockpit window, every two minutes: The Earth, the Moon, the Sun, and the whole 360-degree panorama of the heavens. And that was a powerful, overwhelming experience. And suddenly I realized that the molecules of my body, and the molecules of the spacecraft, the molecules in the body of my partners, were prototyped, manufactured in some ancient generation of stars. And that was an overwhelming sense of oneness, of connectedness; it wasn’t ‘Them and Us’, it was ‘That’s me!’, that’s all of it, it’s… it’s one thing. And it was accompanied by an ecstasy, a sense of ‘Oh my God, wow, yes’, an insight, an epiphany.
🤓 Learn This Word
Solvegg: a Norwegian word that literally means “sun wall.” It’s the act of finding a sunny spot in wintertime where you can sit down and soak up the warmth of the sun.
🕸️ From Around The Web
Why you should talk to your dead ancestors
The first time I spoke to my dead grandfather, I was six years old. My parents had taken us to Armenia to visit ancient monasteries, eat perfectly ripe apricots, and meet relatives whose names I wouldn’t remember.
I learned that ‘talking to your ancestors’ doesn’t involve waiting for a reply. The simple act of communicating without expecting anything in return can bring you closer to them, and to yourself.
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