15. I Said To My Soul, Be Still
selfportrait (quarantine) | available as an etsy print.
Hi friends,
Do you remember the first time you heard this song? I bet you didn't appreciate it like these guys did. Just wait for their reactions 40secs in.
*Also, if you don’t air drum when that drops, we can’t be friends.
Here’s another five things to brighten up your Sunday.
1. A poem
Elizabeth Gilbert quoted from this exquisite poem on a recent podcast with Tim Ferriss and I promptly googled and saved the entire thing.
‘I Said to My Soul, Be Still’ by T.S. Eliot.
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
2. Wanderlusting
Saving up to attend a workshop at Mèlisses in Andros, Greece.
This Stillness & Memento workshop (Sept 9-13th) sounds incredible.
3. Reading
A thought-provoking blog post by Sam Altman on how to generate ideas for startups.
This truly is the best piece of advice when you’re thinking about launching a new business idea:
“The best ideas are fragile; most people don’t even start talking about them at all because they sound silly. Perhaps most of all, you want to be around people who don’t make you feel stupid for mentioning a bad idea, and who certainly never feel stupid for doing so themselves.
Stay away from people who are world-weary and belittle your ambitions. Unfortunately, this is most of the world. But they hold on to the past, and you want to live in the future.”
[read that last line twice. it applies not just to business startup ideas, but to pretty much everything in life.]
4. Shopping online
A New Tribe is my current fave online store.
Plate that sums up 2020 by Kana London.
Remote Places To Stay by gestalten.
I posted about LRNCE in my Marrakech newsletter a few weeks ago.
5. On photography
So grateful I found the work of Marina Denisova because just her look at her photographs!
Here’s DAR HI in Tunisia, a collaboration with IGNANT and Openhouse Magazine, all photos by Marina.
Full article and more photos here.