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Thank you to all you veterans out there!
This “Bits and Clips” post is a monthly feature on this blog of the most interesting, helpful, or important things I read, saw, heard or watched on the internet this month. I hope you find something in the links below that is inspiring, transformational, intriguing, educational, beautiful, yummy, or motivating in some way:
Art:
11 Female Abstract Expressionists You Should Know
Living Sketchbook App trailer by James Gurney
These Women Were Missing from your Art History Books
I Hide Giants I Make from Wood in the Wilderness of Copenhagen
10 Best things we saw at the Venice Biennial
Ice Skating: Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres FS – World Team Trophy 2017 (video)
Photography:
iPhone Photography Tips (video)
Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards
10 Photos that Look Like Paintings
Spirituality:
Seeing Past Labels (short podcast)
Consecration (poem)
Let Grace Persuade (short Podcast)
Extinguishing Tensions of Conflict
Mary Baker Eddy: Trailblazer for Women and Religion
Ideas:
Gardening and the Secret of Happiness
Tomatoes Hate Cucumbers: the Secrets of Companion Planting
Kurzweil Claims Singularity will Happen by 2045
Silent Tragedy Affecting Today’s Children
9 Amazing Things to Do in Maine
The One Most Important Factor to Human Happiness
Bald Eagles Keep Dying and No One is Talking About It
Seeing My Body with Fresh Eyes
10 Most Expensive Places to Raise a Family in the US
American Trees are Moving West; No one Knows Why
The Most Racist Places in America
Belonging to One Another and Taking Back Stolen Time
There are Zero Women Working on the Senate Health Care Bill
National Park Sites Added to the Chopping Block
Trump May Open Giant Sequoia National Monument to Development
Goodbye Public School. It’s not me, it’s You.
Parents Who Raise Good Kids Do These Five Things
Anne Lamott Tells Us How to Be Merciful to Ourselves
Dear White Parents of my Black Child’s Friends
Tracing the Waterways Beneath the Sidewalks of New York
The Value of Striving for Truth
Books:
30 of this Summer’s Hottest Beach Reads
Jean Fritz, Who Wrote Children’s History Books, Dies at 101
20 Books About the Prison Industrial Complex
Food:
Fancy Donuts in a Plain World: ‘Amish Crack’
Eggs Poached in Marinara Sauce
The Best Mayo You’ve Ever Made
7 Fairfield County Food Trucks You Should Know
What Food Geniuses Eat for Lunch
Why Paul Greenburg Spent a Year of His Life Eating Fish
China’s Appetite Pushes Fisheries to the Brink
Poetry:
Hope:
Supreme Court Strikes Down North Carolina Gerrymandering
100 Best Climate Solutions and Why They are Going to Work
Barcelona Makes Space for Urban Forest
US Quietly Lifts Limit on How Many Refuges are Allows In
By posting this list on Memorial Day instead of specifically at the end of the month, my hope is more of you will have the time to noodle around with it! Enjoy your Monday off if you have it! I am so grateful for each of you.
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1 Comment
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Thank you so much for including my post in “Bits & Clips”!
Love the quotes!