Here is some
Friday Goodness
for you to enjoy. A few sweet inspiring things that I’ve read or watched this week.
- Thoughts in the Presence of Fear by Wendell Barry. I read this article written by Wendell Barry in 2005 this week and found that it speaks to today’s world now as well as it did in 2005.
- Michelle Obama Podcast with Barak Obama. I am enjoying listening to this new podcast created by Michelle Obama. You might also enjoy it.
- The Art of Looking on Brain Pickings. This lovely discussion of the book, On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz intrigued me greatly. In it Horowitz describes her quest to walk around a city block with eleven different experts, from an artist to a geologist to a dog and come away with fresh ways to see the world. I was so intrigued by this piece that I placed the book On Looking on reserve at the library.
“The art of seeing has to be learned,” Marguerite Duras
- YoYo Ma’s Songs of Comfort. My favorite musical instrument is the cello. (In fact, I rented a cello and took cello lessons for awhile several years ago but found it too physically demanding on my shoulder, arms, and hands.) So it’s no surprise that I am loving watching and listening to YoYo’s daily Instagram posts of him playing beautiful music. Here’s a video of one of his songs. What amazes me watching him day after day is that he has all of the music he plays day after day memorized. I never see him looking at music as he plays. Imagine how many notes are stored in his magnificent brain.
- Color Theory for Photographers by Blake Rudis. I watched this 4-part series on color theory this week and learned a lot. In fact, I’m planning to watch the last 2 videos in this series again because there was so much content.
- And here is a Mark Nepo poem that I found this week
Understanding Leaves
The leaves do what we can’t.
They wait their whole lives.At first they dream of air
and wait to slip from wood.Then they dream of openness
and wait to stretch in light.Then they dream of thirst
and wait to soften in the rain.At last they dream of nothing
and simply unfurl.Photosynthesis is how this waiting
is described in the physical world.The mystery of waiting is what
turns light into food.To wait beyond what we think
we can bear is how things
within turn sweet.— Mark Nepo
May you walk in beauty.
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