On my recent trip out to Portland, Oregon, I found myself in awe of the view below me for a good bit of the flight. The sun vs the clouds, the clouds vs earth, water vs land. I uploaded the photos the other day and was awed again at the wide variations in color and texture. The quote below is from Finding Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. It’s a little smudgy now, but it’s been written in blue on the tiny chalkboard on the wall in my room near the door for months now.
“Within an evolutionary framework we can focus consciousness on the tasks of everyday life in the knowledge that when we act in the fullness of the flow experience we are also building a bridge to the future of our universe.”
If you’re up for it, take this as a tiny PSA to look around your environment today and keep your eyes out for tapestries that may be hiding in the form of banality. Oh, and happy Saturday.
A few things I’ve been loving or found interesting lately:
*Bags 4 Darfur
*Kala Raksha Preservation of Traditional Arts
*Stitches on the Bridge Project (link via Kim)
*An older post over at Show Your Workings on Craftivism
*Linda’s wonderful tutorial: How to Make a Reversible Swiffer Sock
*Simon Hoegsberg’s “We’re All Gonna Die: 100 Metres of Existence
*Haifa Zangana’s City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman’s Account of War and Resistance
*The honest and frustrating account of journalist Leila El-Haddad’s attempt to get home to see her parents in Gaza (This one actually breaks my heart as to the state of things)