Antidote
Posted on Saturday, May 29, 2010 in Inspiration
The aesthetic details at Cienfuegos: one of many things that inspired me this week
As an antedote to yesterday’s post – not to nullify it, only to surround it with other things that are also true in my life right now (good old “yes, and”) – I offer up this jumbled list of things that have inspired me in the past week:
- Poetry by Billy Collins
- The latest issue of HOW Design (thanks, @dloehr)
- Stinky, a beautiful food shop in Brooklyn full of beautiful things
- My friends – their strength and grace and humor and spark
- Party Down – good comedy
- Peonies
- Hydrangeas
- My parents’ photos from their trip to Europe – the gardens in southern France, the vistas in Spain
- Defying Gravity
- The beautiful decor and attention to aesthetic detail at Cienfuegos, where we drank pink rum punch served from a shiny silver bowl
- Photos of brownstone apartments
- Volunteers who are helping clean up the BP oil spill
- The “Tweets of Old” Twitter feed – so simple and creative
- Jonsi
- The Artist’s Way – paging through it for inspiration
- And so much more
What inspired you this week?
Your courage and honesty
Slow Death by Rubber Duck, a book I am reading right now. It is rather depressing to learn we are adrift in a deeper sea of chemicals than I had imagined, increasing our risk of getting cancer, but knowledge is a first step towards change, and I’m all fired up. Also, California is trying to ban plastic bags, which I find inspirational as well.