Joyful ingrid fetell7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() To receive updates as I upload new blog posts, please subscribe here. Ingrid has over twelve years of experience in design and branding, most. As founder of The Aesthetics of Joy and in her role as IDEO fellow, she empowers people to find more joy in daily life through design. A set of six tools designed to help you find your aesthetics of joy and bring them into your home, work, and life. Along the way, I hope to encourage people to enjoy the outdoors however they can. Ingrid Fetell Lee is a Brooklyn-based designer and writer whose work focuses on the way that design affects our health and happiness. ![]() in Seattle, WA, I recently switched gears from exploring children’s literature and memoir to deepening self-care pursuits including wildlife photography, four-season hiking, and getting unstuck. ![]() With more than two decades as a personal trainer and co-owner of Body Results Inc. Welcome! If you’ve been longing to make deep personal change, I hope you find tips and ideas in this blog to do so. Writing with depth, wit, and insight, Ingrid Fetell Lee shares all you need to know in order to create external environments that give rise to inner joy. Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness by Ingrid Fetell Lee 7,760 ratings, 3.85 average rating, 1,081 reviews Open Preview Joyful Quotes Showing 1-30 of 341 Burnout often has as much boredom in it as exhaustion. ![]()
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Natasha's Dance by Orlando Figes7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Full of resounding moments like these, Figes's book focuses on the ideas that have preoccupied Russian artists in the modern era: Just what is "Russianness," and does the quality come from its peasants or its nobility, from Europe or from Asia? He examines canonical works of art and literature as well as the lives of their creators: Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky, Chagall, Stanislavsky, Eisenstein and many others. 'Oh, and neither can I, neither can I' "). ![]() He shares Ilya Repin's recollection of how peasants reacted to his friend Leo Tolstoy's fumbling attempts to join them in manual labor ("Never in my life have I seen a clearer expression of irony on a simple peasant's face"), as well as the three sentences Shostakovich shyly exchanged with his idol, Stravinsky, when the latter returned to the Soviet Union after 50 years of exile (" 'What do you think of Puccini?' 'I can't stand him,' Stravinsky replied. ![]() Even if one takes nothing else away from this elegant, tightly focused survey of Russian culture, it's impossible to forget the telling little anecdotes that University of London history professor Figes ( A People's Tragedy) relates about Russia's artists, writers, musicians, intellectuals and courtiers as he traces the cultural movements of the last three centuries. ![]() The bells by edgar allan poe7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Here’s a hint about the poem’s meaning: It’s not about the bells. When you read the poem, start with your voice up high for the jingling bells and end with your voice very low and deep with the bad-news iron bells. The word “brazen” has a long “a” sound coupled with a harsh “z.” It sounds like alarming. That’s called assonance: using the same vowel sound inside neighboring words. Notice how the phrase “mellow wedding bells” even sounds soft and mellow because Poe chose short “e” sounds in those words. ![]() Then the bells sound even deeper: tolling iron bells that tell of bad news. This delightful poem moves from the high, jingling sound of silver bells to “mellow wedding bells” to “brazen” bells sounding an alarm. Now it’s your turn: Read Poe’s poem “The Bells” out loud. You’ll see that he was very successful in his poem “The Bells,” which is rich with writer’s devices. In an essay, Poe explained how he was very careful to choose just the right words for how they sound and for the effect he was trying to achieve. He’s famous for his short stories and for poems like “The Raven.” (You know, that “Nevermore” poem.) ![]() Though that is over 200 years ago, we still read his work today. Edgar Allan Poe was born January 19, 1809. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, despite a team of prosecuting attorneys, dozens of witnesses, and over one ton of evidence, Petiot’s brilliance and wit threatened to win the day.ĭrawing extensively on many new sources, including the massive, classified French police file on Dr. Attempting to try all twenty-seven cases at once, the prosecution stumbled in its marathon cross-examinations, and Petiot, enjoying the spotlight, responded with astonishing ease. Petiot, however, would soon be charged with twenty-seven murders, though authorities suspected the total was considerably higher, perhaps even as many as 150. He was the “People’s Doctor,” known for his many acts of kindness and generosity, not least in providing free medical care for the poor. Marcel Petiot, was a handsome, charming physician with remarkable charisma. ![]() ![]() But while trying to solve the many mysteries of the case, Massu would unravel a plot of unspeakable deviousness. The gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris.Īs decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the elusive murderer in a twilight world of Gestapo, gangsters, resistance fighters, pimps, prostitutes, spies, and other shadowy figures of the Parisian underworld. In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account. ![]() Macbeth by William Shakespeare7/6/2023 ![]() William Hazlitt, Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays Shakespear’s genius here took its full swing, and trod upon the farthest bounds of nature and passion. The whole play is an unruly chaos of strange and forbidden things, where the ground rocks under our feet. The lights and shades are laid on with a determined hand the transitions from triumph to despair, from the height of terror to the repose of death, are sudden and startling every passion brings in its fellow-contrary, and the thoughts pitch and jostle against each other as in the dark. There is nothing but what has a violent end or violent beginnings. It is a huddling together of fierce extremes, a war of opposite natures which of them shall destroy the other. The action is desperate and the reaction is dreadful. ![]() It moves upon the verge of an abyss, and is a constant struggle between life and death. ![]() is done upon a stronger and more systematic principle of contrast than any other of Shakespeare’s plays. Analysis of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth ![]() Huck finn book7/6/2023 ![]() A constant theme throughout the book is Huck's internal struggle between what he has been taught, that helping a runaway slave is a sin, and what he truly believes, that Jim is a good man and it couldn't possibly be wrong to help him.Īdventures of Huckleberry Finn was unique at the time of its publication (1884) because it is narrated by Huck himself and is written in the numerous dialects common in the area and time in which the book is set. The true heart of the story, however, is the friendship between Huck and Jim. Both are on the run, Huck from his drunk and abusive father, and Jim as a runaway slave.Īs Huck and Jim drift down the river, they meet many colorful characters and have many great adventures. The book tells the story of "Huck" Finn (first introduced as Tom Sawyer's sidekick in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer), his friend Jim, and their journey down the Mississippi River on a raft. ![]() Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain is one of the truly great American novels, beloved by children, adults, and literary critics alike. ![]() Librivox recording of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. ![]() Armor by John Steakley7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() This includes, but is not limited to, hate speech and fighting about politics. All mod actions will be taken with these goals in mind. Our guidelines were designed to foster a diverse and welcoming discussion community while avoiding drama, flamewars, and promotional activity. Say "hi" at our sister subreddits- SpecArt and SF Videos-and join our reader-managed Goodreads group. The key is that it be speculative, not that it fit some arbitrary genre guidelines. ![]() History, Postmodern Lit., and more are all welcome here. ![]() ![]() Not sure what counts as speculative fiction? Then post it! Science Fiction, Fantasy, Alt. 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![]() ![]() Kate’s husband, John, a Melbourne physician, lies about attending a medical conference in London and turns up dead with his throat cut on Belport. He has inexplicably become secretive and irritable. Abby’s husband, Ray, runs a struggling business maintaining vacation homes. ![]() Both women struggle to understand their husbands’ recent odd behaviors. The extroverted Abby Gilpin represents the servant class living year-round on Belport Island, while the more remote Kate Keddie is from the privileged vacationer class. ![]() ![]() This is otherwise a frank story about two related murders that occur decades apart on a vacation island off the coast of Australia.The narrative employs the perspectives of two women in alternating chapters. White uses a remarkable “What was that?” plot twist in this thriller to elevate it well above its commonplace themes of the destructiveness of hidden family secrets and the price of misguided family loyalty. ![]() ![]() ![]() Does he fight for what he believes in or does he turn the other way for the sake of his bride? When Matt steps in to help a young widow, whose husband is murdered on King Driscoll’s orders, his life takes a completely different turn. With Adrian as his bride, he intends to start his own spread, and have the family he’s always wanted.īut Matt has no idea that Adrian’s father King Driscoll, is a corrupt rancher, who has control of the entire cattle market in northern Wyoming that Adrian’s brother Kirby is a twisted sadist who loves to inflict pain and that King will stop at nothing, even murder, to stay in power. So he returns to Wyoming Territory to marry his fiancé Adrian Driscoll, an elegant young woman he met during a brief courtship in Cheyenne. Matt Landry is fed up with politics and his life in Washington as a delegate. Friday’s Revolving Book is the western VALLEY OF THE LAWLESS by LEE MARTIN! ![]() |