spreadsheets & yoga; other stuff that moves me:

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spreadsheets & yoga

both are about paying attention to what you’re doing, and with awareness, experimenting with what else could you do—for yourself, for this moment, for your family, your work, your dreams, worries, body and home

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Bathers (Study for a Monument) 8 July 1928

This is one of Picasso’s volume paintings.

That’s what I call them. I don’t know what anyone else has said about it. (volume)

What do you think? feel?

Actually, this one is a drawing, india ink and wash on sketchbook page. (sublime)

It’s scanned from PICASSO Érotique, the catalog from the exhibition.

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech. The full version: 17min of “the high plain of dignity & discipline”. Why we’re here.

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This essay makes me smile and get back to work, remembering that I am both the reader and the writer: This is a Paragraph «  in over your head

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Fascinating & inspiring: neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight | Video on TED.com

One morning, a blood vessel in Jill Bolte Taylor’s brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness…Amazed to find herself alive, Taylor spent eight years recovering her ability to think, walk and talk. An astonishing story.

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Retrieve and feed your creativity with Julia Cameron’s morning pages, part of her The Basic Tools

Morning Pages are three pages of longhand, stream of consciousness writing, done first thing in the morning. There is no wrong way to do Morning Pages– they are not high art. They are about anything and everything that crosses your mind– and they are for your eyes only.

I have been doing a variation of morning pages for a months now. The more I do it, and no matter what I write, the more I end up releasing what I don’t need and reminding myself where it was I wanted to plant my two feet this morning. Very useful. I waste way less time by clearing a space and orienting myself before slipping into the water of the day ahead. Lately, I write each morning at 750words.com. You might like to write there, too. It’s totally private and you get stats about your writing.

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My list at the end of 2010: The 9 that got me off my ass, turned me on & woke me up (2010)

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My friend, Rose’s article at Inside Rose:  I Am A Slut, Hear Me Purr <- “…permission to luxuriate in being a sexual being…”

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Pablo Neruda’s “Keeping Quiet”: Now we will count to twelve and we…

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Jonathan Franzen’s Commencement address – when you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders…the world and its problems are impossibly daunting, but when you go out and put yourself in relation to real people…there’s a very real danger that you might love some of them, and who knows what might happen to you then…