This bits and clips post is a monthly feature on this blog of the best that I saw, read, or heard on the internet in the past month. I hope you find something in the links, memes, photographs, ideas, quotes, and many artworks and poems here that inspire, challenge, motivate, encourage, support, or educate you. May you resonate in practical ways with this outpouring offering:
Art:
COLOR THEORY BASICS: Use the Color Wheel & Color Harmonies to Choose Colors that Work Well Together
The resonances between Indigenous art and images captured by microscopes
WORKFLOW FOR OCTOBER CONTRAST II
Net Effect #36: Alex Cook, Muralist and Christian Musician
Spirituality:
God’s-eye view of you! – Fujiko Signs, Speaker
Ideas:
Jill Biden: Why Joe Had to Propose 5 Times Before I Said Yes—And What Finally Changed My Mind
Lost touch: how a year without hugs affects our mental health
The Jan. 6 images were already disturbing. The impeachment-trial video makes them terrifying.
Patagonia’s Former C.E.O. Retreats to the Rainforest
The Art and Education of Owling
Heather Cox Richardson Offers a Break From the Media Maelstrom. It’s Working.
The Words That Are In and Out With the Biden Administration
‘Unity With Purpose.’ Amanda Gorman and Michelle Obama Discuss Art, Identity and Optimism
Books:
Your Kids Aren’t Too Old for Picture Books, and Neither Are You
This Indigenous Author and Artist Team Have an Important Message
25 expansive stories that follow a character across decades
Glennon Doyle’s Honesty Gospel
Amor Towles is releasing a new novel — and it’s nothing like A Gentleman in Moscow
Movies:
How Italy changed Stanley Tucci forever
A negroni made Stanley Tucci a social media star. There’s more where that came from
Food:
Spiced Persimmon Cake with Dates and Lemon Glaze
Sunny Citrus Recipes + How to Use Lots of Citrus
Poetry:
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry, animated
Celebrating Black History Month
and Hope:
This Arab science mission to Mars is powered mostly by women
What tulips taught me about growing in the dark
Legendary NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson Now Has a Spacecraft Named After Her
Wow…so much…so good…