Antidote

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?