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This regular, monthly post captures the best that I read, saw, or heard on the Internet during the month. So check out the links (separated into categories) below, and the TON of memes in this post. I hope you find something here the interests you, lights your fire, ups your game, motivates you, satisfies you, makes you happy (or more inquisitive), or inspires you soul.

Art:

Bobby McFerrin – LIVE Improvisation at The Kennedy Center

6 Tips for Artists on How to Talk about Their Art

Baffled by Conceptual Art? So Are Will Ferrell and Joel McHale in This Museum’s Short Film

My Favorite Tools

Three Sisters Sing Classic Celtic Tune

Toddler Painting Video

Voices of Experience: Lana Ballot

Artist Uses Colored Clay

Pontus Jansson Land Art

Photography:

Photography Basics on YouTube

Spirituality:

Recovering Wasted Years

Can Depression Be Healed with Bible Study?

‘God wants people to come together’: At MLK rally, many faiths but one message

Our Spiritual Heritage

Cultivating the connection between soil and the soul with ‘FaithLands’

Ideas:

Wiki Has Released Over 83,500 Vintage Sewing Patterns Online For Download

Meet Alex: Food Blogger, Stay-at-Home Mom, and Total Badass

Robert Lanza presents a radical new view of the universe and everything in it.

Before You Feel Pressure, Watch This

Sweden Bans Mandatory Vaccinations Over ‘Serious Heath Concerns’

Welcome to Gros Morne National Park

Birds Can See Earth’s Magnetic Fields, And We Finally Know How That’s Possible

50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, Remembering the Women Who Steered the Movement

International scientists have found autism’s cause. What will Americans do?

Remembering Barbara Bush, a beloved first lady of strength and purpose

Read the Bush Family’s Statements Following the Death of Barbara Bush

‘Nerves of steel’: She calmly landed the Southwest flight, just as you’d expect of a former fighter pilot

5 Best Day Trips from New York City

The Obamas quietly said what Trump couldn’t in a letter to Parkland students.

Nothing Like I Expected

Zig Zigler: World’s Biggest Optimist

Books:

A Legacy In Literacy: Books About The Life Of Barbara Bush

22 Ambassadors Recommend the One Book to Read Before Visiting Their Country

Food:

Recipe for Easy Tuna Cakes

Badassery in the Kitchen: Teri Turner from No Crumbs Left Will Get You There

5 Minute Paleo Strawberry Jam

Tuna Zoodle Casserole Recipe

Top Ten Spaghetti Squash Recipes

Mini Mahi Burgers

Poetry:

Helen Mirren Reads Poetry to Stephen Colbert

Louise Boureious’s Poems

and Hope:

Metal Straws to Save the Planet

What is Your Truth?

5 Digital Ways to Save the Earth

Plastic Waste Can Fix Our Roads

High School Cross Country Team Wants To Help Animals, Takes Shelter Dogs On Routine Runs

Biodegradable Six-pack Rings are Edible for Sea Life

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