Yesterday, May 27th, marked the 21st birthday of this beloved online garden of mine. The rolling panda beautifully represents how I feel about this.
I had no idea just how much this labor of love would increase my surface area for luck to find me. Do you run an online garden? Point us to it!
Sociologists have long argued that human relationships are sustained less by intensity and more by regularity. Simply encountering the same people repeatedly builds closeness over time. Youth offers this naturally. Adulthood dismantles it completely. Especially in urban life.
– From the article The quiet grief of adult friendship
This is one of the many reasons why we are building CreativeMornings/Clubs.
point out the good
when you see it.in life,
in others,
in yourself.because the world
needs to remember
what kindness and
love look like.
I am going to be spending way too much time on this website! Bring back the weird internet. I love you Brik.space. What weird tool are you going to build?
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“The prosperity of the community grows from the flow of relationships, not the accumulation of goods.”
– The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
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Do you need an invitation to step away from the algorithm?
An invitation to reconnect with your creativity?
Cool. But you also need a deadline!
I got both: Cue RELEASE DAY!
Release Day just launched and 1,482 creative humans have already pledged to create something during the month of May and then release it on May 29th.
A month of creating?
I’ll be sketching and drawing in my sketch book ever day to reconnect with Art School Days Tina. My poet daughter aims to put together her second poetry book. And my partner Tim is finishing and releasing songs he’s never shared with the world.
Will you join? Go to creativemornings.com/releaseday and join us!
Thank you Creative Quests and Adobe for making this happen. My favorite activation in 18 years of running CreativeMornings!
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor”.
– Henry David Thoreau
In October 2024, Rachel Moore had a close encounter with a humpback whale in French Polynesia and took these photos of the whale’s eye. Whoa!
(Via Kottke)
“You’re looking for three things, generally, in a person,” says Buffett. “Intelligence, energy, and integrity. And if they don’t have the last one, don’t even bother with the first two. I tell them, ‘Everyone here has the intelligence and energy—you wouldn’t be here otherwise. But the integrity is up to you. You weren’t born with it, you can’t learn it in school.”
– Warren Buffet
This graph stopped me in my tracks. Different questions lead to different answers.
Subscription Cost Visualizer is a lightweight, interactive tool that turns your subscriptions into a visual grid. Instead of a list of numbers, you get a clear, proportional view of where your money is going—larger blocks represent higher costs, making your spending instantly legible.
Project Gutenberg is one of the oldest and most generous corners of the internet: a vast, free digital library built by volunteers. Founded in 1971, it offers more than 75,000 eBooks—mostly classic works whose copyrights have expired—available to read, download, and share without cost.
FutureMe is a quiet little corner of the internet with a simple premise: you write an email to your future self, and the site delivers it later.
You choose the date—months or years from now—type out whatever’s on your mind, and hit send. Then you forget about it. At some point down the line, it shows up in your inbox like a message from a past version of you.
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Moon Joy. I am here for it. Thank you NASA. These four humans fill my heart with so much hope and love.
Using wiki software, old photos, family stories, bank transactions, social media posts, and an LLM to sift through everything to build a personal encyclopedia? Yes, please! whoami.wiki as an open source project. The encyclopedia is yours, it runs on your machine, your data stays with you, and any model can read it.
(via Jason)
This made me giggle. Nature is silly. Did you know the Red-Lipped Batfish is a thing?
My friend Derek Andersen founder of StartupGrind invited me to be on his Podcast called Divot. Loved our conversation, his curious and gentle orientation and most of all, his lighting questions at the end. (Starting around 35:25min)
PS: They got the community size wrong: We gather 25,000 creatives every month in 70 countries and have 600,000 members.
“Two decades ago, some poets in the Netherlands decided that people not having anyone attend their funeral was an unacceptable ending for a human life. In 2001, a poet named Bart Droog began attending the funerals of people who had no one to attend them and honoring the dead with a poem based on whatever was known about their life. A year later, Dutch poet and artist Frank Starik took the idea even further, launching The Lonely Funeral project to ensure that someone who cares consciously acknowledges the life of a person who has died.
The idea was to create a network of poets who would find out whatever they could about the person, write a custom poem about their life and read it at their funeral. As of 2018, over 300 “lonely funerals” had been attended by poets in Amsterdam and Antwerp (where Flemish poet Maarten Inghels launched a Lonely Funeral project seven years after Starik’s).”
Read More about The Lonely Funeral
(via this article)
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