This bits and clips post is a monthly feature on this blog of the best that I’ve seen on the internet in the past month. I hope you find something among all this artwork, photography, memes, links, and quotes that spurs you on, informs, inspires, supports, educates, encourages or motivates you. Take your time and scroll all the way down; there is a lot here:

Art:

Drawing Texture on Water with Marker

Hilma at Klint

Henrik Simonsen demonstrating a wash of color in oil

Brian Rutenberg: Learn Your Materials

Pleasure as a creative strategy

Spirituality:

What’s the biggest mistake Christians make?

Let Yourself Trust

Ideas:

Three questions to ask next time you meet somebody

How We Built our Sunken Greenhouse

Three ways to find the right people and be a better friend

Questions to go deeper with your partner

The Ingratitude of Barren Lives

Opt out of AI using your instagram photos

(AI) Living presidents sing together

How a Bridge is Built

Kelsey: fastest solo row from California to Hawaii recommends finding your big hard scary thing and going to do it

Mamdani’s July 4th Address

Food:

How to Line a Cake Pan

Poetry:

Hydrangea Resilience

Concerns:

EPA just approved two new cancer-causing pesticides for your food

Lake Powell 2025 vs 2026