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The bad news is the CDC recommends against Thanksgiving travel this year and suggests limiting gatherings to the immediate household (meaning only those who have lived together in past two weeks.)
The good news is, for … Read More...
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For Mardi Gras in New Orleans last year, I donned a pair of gold lamé pants, a feathered hat encrusted with shiny sequins and a colorful mask (not the kind we’re all wearing these days), then joined my neighbors and … Read More...
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This article was updated on September 16, 2021 to include the image (above) of the nearly completed installation.
In a posthumous tribute to the environmental artist Christo who died in 2020, approximately 150 workers began wrapping the Arc de Triomphe … Read More...
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Longwood Gardens Topiary Garden. Image via Longwood Gardens.
Edward Scissorhands had nothing on the horticultural artists who painstakingly sculpt topiaries in some of North America’s most spectacular topiary gardens. Come along with us on a virtual tour to experience some … Read More...
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Photo: Jenny Pore, courtesy Isabel Stewart Gardner Museum.
For about three weeks every year, cascades of brilliant orange nasturtiums spill down from the Venetian balconies in the courtyard at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Photo: Jenny Pore, courtesy Isabel … Read More...
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In Japan, cherry blossoms symbolize the transient nature of life, a reflection of the Buddhist concept known as “mono no aware,” which recognizes that there is both beauty and mortality in life.
For most of Japan, including Tokyo, … Read More...
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Contemplating tulips conjures images of Dutch windmills, wooden shoes, and blue Delft pottery, which makes sense because the Netherlands produces 90 percent of the world’s tulips–4.3 billion tulip bulbs annually on about 27,182 … Read...
Artist Barry Lungu’s painting of Jacarand trees in bloom in Zimbabwe. Image courtesy of Artgal.online.
Art and beauty live in physical landmarks and museums and also in the expressions of natural wonders, culture, history, and creativity that local artists bring … Read More...
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Gustav Eiffel’s Pont de le Peixateries Velles over Onyar river. Photo: Robin Plaskoff Horton.
Updated June 6, 2024
The history of Girona, Spain, is as colorful as the ochre and coral-toned buildings lining the banks of the Onyar river
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I write about design, living and places for everyone from all walks of life. Right now people all over the world are mourning. They’re angry. They … Read More...
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The novel Cornavirus has inspired some novel ideas. From personal glass greenhouses at an Amsterdam restaurant, stuffed pandas occupying chairs in a Bangkok eatery, to pool noodle hats at a cafe in Germany, people are exercising their collective creativity to … Read More...
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This puts the culture in horticulture: After a three month shutdown, Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house reopened with an audience of 2,292 plants.
During the theater’s Concierto Para el Bioceno (Concert for the Biocene), those planted in their … Read More...
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How will the pandemic change the design of public parks and gardens? Many of these much-loved spaces around the world are closed to prevent the spread of Covid-19, and officials continue to grapple with how to safely reopen… Read More...
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A small socially distanced group gathered at Alice’s Garden Urban Farm in Milwaukee as blacksmith Fred Martin gripped a piece of red-hot steel from the forge and placed it on an anvil. He then pummeled the piece of metal, a … Read More...
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Carl Jung and the Shadow – The Mechanics of Your Dark Side
Have you ever looked yourself in the mirror so deeply that the sheer notion of what you like to call self, dissipated in a vertigo of angst and abstraction?
It is a strange feeling.
A feeling a bit arcane but also kind of...
What It Truly Means to Be a Contrarian
One of the most important tweets I have ever read was composed by entrepreneur and investor Naval Ravikant:
Evidently, he attempts to define the nature of the word contrarian in a very interesting fashion.
This is a word that is being thrown...
How to Deal with Anxiety – The End of the Most Nebulous Diseases of Our Times
First, there was the sweat.
Then the heart pumping furiously.
I thought it would penetrate my chest.
Then the uncontrollable breathing made me lose control over my body.
I started making circles...
Schopenhauer Made Me a Pessimist. But Then He Helped Me Enjoy Life.
This is how Arthur Schopenhauer introduces us to his most celebrated work, “The World as Will and Representation.”
Such a potent way to introduce your audience to your inner world requires quite some audacity.
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Self-Actualization – The End Goal or a Delusion?
This is Abraham Maslow.
He is considered one of the most important psychologists of the 20th century because of his association with the famous hierarchy of human needs.
This hierarchy depicts the idea that human needs can be categorized...
Ultralearning – How to Learn Faster (A Thorough Analysis)
This is Tristan de Montebello.
He is a very interesting guy based in Los Angeles, California and, one day, he decided to challenge his skills on public speaking.
Tristan did not have any experience in the field.
However, he...