By Rebecca Senf — 2021
Ansel Adams's Legacy and the Diverse Artists Building on an Icon
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CLEAR ALL
For fifty-plus years, Joanna Macy has been helping us to face the Earth’s urgent and deepening crisis, to look without turning away, and to engage.
The concept of the flow, or being in the zone for an artist, is very much like the state an athlete achieves (or strives to achieve) for peak performance. It’s that place beyond all the effort, where time is meaningless and everything just flows.
Research shows there is a ‘sweet spot’ and subjective wellbeing drops off after about five hours.
Jay Shetty on his latest book, his experiences living as a monk in India and the necessity of routine in one’s life.
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I have discovered the best ideas come to me at the most random times: in the shower, brushing my teeth, walking in the woods and in the middle of the night.
Each year, on the winter solstice, we share this reflection on the season by Parker Palmer. In 1995 Parker wrote a welcome for the Fetzer Institute’s newly built retreat center, Seasons, which included a reflection on each of the four seasons.