I Can Fly: A Heartening Vintage Gem by Ruth Krauss, with Illustrations by Celebrated Disney Artist Mary Blair

Simple verses with a thoughtful message. Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you any joy and inspiration, please consider a modest donation – it lets me know I’m doing something right. from Brain Pickings http://ift.tt/1gKhVUI via IFTTT

Posterity Is Stupid: 19-Year-Old Italo Calvino on Living with Integrity and How to Assert Yourself

“Asserting oneself … doesn’t mean asserting a name and a person. It means asserting oneself with all that one has inside, and what he has inside, underneath that pigeon chest, is taking on more and more precise contours.” Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remainsContinue reading “Posterity Is Stupid: 19-Year-Old Italo Calvino on Living with Integrity and How to Assert Yourself”

If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? Kurt Vonnegut’s Advice to the Young on Kindness, Computers, Community, and the Power of Great Teachers

“Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.” Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you any joy and inspiration, please consider a modest donation – it lets me know I’m doing something right. from BrainContinue reading “If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? Kurt Vonnegut’s Advice to the Young on Kindness, Computers, Community, and the Power of Great Teachers”

25 Things You Should Never Stop Doing for Yourself

Sometimes you have to do what’s best for you and your life, not what’s best for everyone else. When I was 16 years old and too young to fully grasp the sensitivity of the situation, I interviewed my grandmother’s friend JoAnn, who was terminally ill, for a school project entitled “The Speed of Life.”  AboutContinue reading “25 Things You Should Never Stop Doing for Yourself”

Lost Your Keys Again? 8 Tips for Finding Misplaced Objects.

Every Wednesday is Tip Day, or List Day, or Quiz Day. This Wednesday: 8 tips for finding misplaced objects. Samuel Johnson wrote, “It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery, and as much happiness as possible,” and I’m often struck by how much happiness I getContinue reading “Lost Your Keys Again? 8 Tips for Finding Misplaced Objects.”