Blogger Recognition Award A big shout out to Vickie’s Book Nook and Meditation Corner for the nomination, If you haven’t been to her blog then you must treat yourself to a visit. How and When My Blog Started My blog Parallax started in June 2013. The word Parallax is a reminder that a view of […]
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Did you know…
… that today is the birthday of Gertrude Ederle, swimmer (1906); Doug Flutie, football (1962); John Heisman, football (1869); Pele, soccer (1940); Chi Chi Rodriquez, golf (1934); and Mike Tomczak, football (1962). Celebrate their birthdays by getting active outside. It’ll do you good! 🙂
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Today’s Inspirational Quote:
“It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you’ve lived so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.”
— JK Rowling
Immortal master, my refuge and salvation, in my time of need I come to you. Cleanse my spirit so I may be lost no longer. I plead this of you as your faithful child, o bountiful spirit. Favor me with your illustrious mercy.
I might be far from the point, but I’m not a mistake. In fact, I fix yours. What am I?
The answer is: An eraser.
Many have heard me, yet nobody has seen me. I won’t speak back unless spoken to. What am I?
The answer is: An echo.
Love Is Not An Emotion
by Barbara Frederickson
[Listen to Audio!]Love, defined as micro moments of positivity resonance, may thus be the most generative and consequential of all positive emotions. By virtue of being a single state, distributed across and reverberating between two or more brains and bodies at once, love’s ability to broaden mind-sets and build resources may have substantially greater reach.
Love, then, is not simply another positive emotion. Rather, it is the momentary phenomenon through which we feel and become part of something larger than ourselves. Meaning in life may thus emerge not from the grand and unrealistic utopian ideals of “happily-ever-after” love, but from what art historian Nicholas Bourriaud calls the “day-today micro-utopias” of shared positivity. Seeing love as positivity resonance also blurs the boundaries that surround the concept of emotion.
Many, if not most, scientific descriptions of emotions locate these affective phenomena within individuals, confined within one person’s mind and skin. By contrast, the concept of positivity resonance aligns with perspectives offered within cultural psychology that position emotions as unfolding between and among people as they interact. Seeing emotions as properties of individuals may indeed be a myopic by-product of the Western tendency to perceptually extract focal objects from their contextual surround. By contrast, positioning love as a dynamic process that unfurls across and unifies two or more interacting individuals offers parsimony to accounts of the social and societal functions of positive emotions.
Seeing love as positivity resonance also holds practical implications for how people might strengthen their relationships, families, and communities. Striving to improve these directly can be like telling a complete stranger “trust me” in the absence of any trustworthy actions. By contrast, knowing that relationships, families, and communities grow stronger to the extent that positivity resonates between and among people reveals the value of planning for and prioritizing positivity. Creating activities and safe contexts that allow real-time sensory connection and support the emergence of shared positive emotions becomes the pathway to build social bonds and community. This guidance may be especially valuable within contemporary urban cultures that propel people toward multitasking and technology-mediated social connections. As novelist Ursula Le Guin put it, “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
About the Author: Excerpted from here.
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It’s on us.
Think creative.
On the front line.
Make it happen.
One step at a time.
Now’s the time.
Little miracles.
Experience is key.
To the extreme.
The future.
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“A society grows great when people plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” — Greek Proverb
In 2007, for the first time in human history, more people lived in cities than outside of them.
Cities shape how we live and they are only becoming more important. But an urban future isn’t necessarily a better one.
Welcome to The Future of Cities, a new podcast from The Mission. In Season 1, we deep dive into topics and technology that are vital to creating a better world. We will share stories from history and look to science fiction for clues of what lies ahead.
Each episode features interviews with industry leading experts — including city planners, technology innovators, government officials, architects, builders, and more.
A better future won’t happen unless we build it.
So hit subscribe and join us as we explore The Future of Cities.
(And why not take a friend along for the ride? Share this podcast on Twitter!)
The Future of Cities is presented by Katerra. Better, faster, lower cost building projects are long overdue. Katerra is applying technology to optimize every aspect of building design and construction. To learn more about how you can join their growing team, visit katerra.com.
“A society grows great when people plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” — Greek Proverb
In 2007, for the first time in human history, more people lived in cities than outside of them.
Cities shape how we live and they are only becoming more important. But an urban future isn’t necessarily a better one.
Welcome to The Future of Cities, a new podcast from The Mission. In Season 1, we deep dive into topics and technology that are vital to creating a better world. We will share stories from history and look to science fiction for clues of what lies ahead.
Each episode features interviews with industry leading experts — including city planners, technology innovators, government officials, architects, builders, and more.
A better future won’t happen unless we build it.
So hit subscribe and join us as we explore The Future of Cities.
(And why not take a friend along for the ride? Share this podcast on Twitter!)
The Future of Cities is presented by Katerra. Better, faster, lower cost building projects are long overdue. Katerra is applying technology to optimize every aspect of building design and construction. To learn more about how you can join their growing team, visit katerra.com.
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“When the Master has given a spiritual push to the aspirant, he waits till the help thus given is completely assimilated by him. An overdose of spirituality always has an unhealthy reaction, particularly when it is inopportune.
The Master therefore carefully selects the moment when his intervention is assured of maximum results; and having intervened, he waits with infinite patience till the aspirant really needs further help.”
Discourses Vol. III Pg. 126
By Meher Baba
Copyright AMBPPCT
“A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.” -Herb Caen
“A society grows great when people plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
Greek philosophers dropped this great seed of wisdom over two thousand years ago. It is just as applicable today, especially in the context of increasing urban development. It is the principle underlying conversations had by global leaders at places like the #WIRED25 Summit.
We fret over our ability to anticipate and account for the needs of the future. That’s why we are fascinated by movies like Bladerunner and Back To The Future. What does the future really hold?
Today, we launched our new podcast, The Future of Cities!
For ten episodes, we’ll seek answers from some of the world’s brightest and boldest minds. You’ll hear from experts at the forefront of innovation — people like Craig Curtis, head of architecture for Katerra; Deano Roberts, senior director of global workplace real estate for Slack; and Laurie Johnson, an urban planner with nearly 30 years of experience.
Join us as we throw on our hard hats and explore the problems facing our cities.
Episode One: What Makes A City Great?
Episode Two: Where Do You Put 3 Million People Every Week?
Episode Three: Why Do Buildings Cost So Much?
Episode Four: How To Build Rome In A Day
Episode Five: Where Will We Work In 100 Years?
During the great California Gold Rush, San Francisco looked like this:
As of October 2018, San Francisco looks like this:
Imagine the year 3000. What will San Francisco look like? Will there even be a San Francisco or will the city be eclipsed by some yet unknown greatness still to come?
– The Delhi water crisis is being tackled not by experts, but by local citizens.
– Saudi Arabia is betting big on its futuristic monster city. Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick is officially on the advisory board.
– Popular Mechanics says this could be the world in 2045.
– Architectural Digest is like, “Ya okay, but this is the design of cities in the year 2039.”
– You won’t be living in a house for long. Micro-units are the dwelling units of the future.
– If you want to avoid little things like natural disasters, move to one of these citiespronto.
– The new LEGO store in Shanghai invites shoppers to build their future city brick by tiny brick.
– Offices are ch-ch-changin’. San Francisco is officially the co-working capital of the world.
– If you want to manifest the life you’ve always dreamed of, start with design.
– Mass timber is transforming construction as we know it.
– 34 remarkable and exciting things about the future, from an economist who knows a few things about the world.
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