𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗲'𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴? In my conversation with 𝗝𝘂𝗱𝗱 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝘄 the concept of all the ways we go through life performing (especially at work) snuck in a bit. 🎧 Listen to the whole conversation: buff.ly/Z52Po32 hashtag#Authenticity hashtag#PerformanceTrap Judd Shaw ⚡️

Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk — For this week's #LiftToTheSky Weeding the Labyrinth Margaret Chula Parenting “The parents form / a parenthesis of protection around their young ones.” #poetry #parenting

Shout out to @monicacparker.bsky.social for her Wonderbringers newsletters and introducing me to the online magazine: @psyche.co . They cover so many good topics, like minding the bag between who you are and want to be: psyche.co/guides/how-t... #Psychology #MentalHealth #Wonder

Want to experience one of Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings? Visit a museum or library today to remember him (30 March 1853 - 29 July 1890). 🖼️🎥 Or better yet, find an immersive show (Americas/Europe/APAC): vangoghexpo.com #VincentVanGogh #Immersion #MomentOfAwe

Van Gogh Exhibition: The Immersive Experience

Thanks to the most recent virtual projection technology you will become a part of the spectacular, incomparable universe of Vincent Van Gogh.

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For over a decade I asked 1 question at every parent-teacher conference: “𝘐𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨?” I wanted to know: 🌿Were they flourishing? 🌿Were they challenged? 🌿Were they generous? 🌿Were they active in their circle of friends? Read more 👉 buff.ly/D48z8PX #thriving #parenting

Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk — For this week's #LiftToTheSky Weeding the Labyrinth 🦋 Margaret Chula Whirling In The Goblet “Motion cannot be lulled to sleep in the lap of the sea” #poetry #parenting

𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 — 𝗟𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗼 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦? 👉 Read more: buff.ly/mDYzha1 #SundayReflection #ThoughtEchoes #LettingGo

How can we learn when it’s time to let go?

What are attachments? How can we release our hold on attachments and learn when it’s time to let go?

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We usually think of attachment as holding on to people. But we also hold on to identities. Expectations. Old stories about who we're supposed to be. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘵𝘴? 🎧 Listen to full episode: buff.ly/mvVxPBI #ThoughtEchoes #SaturdayMemoryLane #LettingGo

What a great 1st trip to Alaska so much to see! Felt bittersweet to see the glacier calving off ice, but as the captain said, it's part of the life cycle to release nutrients for the wide variety of water wildlife...despite being faster with climate change.

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Amazing 7.5 hr Kenai Fjords Glacier Odyssey boat trip to see calving at Aialik (Good Surprises) Glacier, AK with Northern Latitude Adventures. Bittersweet to see part of the glacier fall off and not…

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𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗽𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗲 "𝗕𝘂𝗯𝗯𝗹𝗲-𝗡𝗲𝘁 𝗙𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴" 𝗶𝘀? On a Northern Latitude 7.5 hr Kenai Fjords Glacier Odyssey boat trip, Captain Emily kept saying: 🐋"Look for blows." 🐋"You'll know it when you see it." 🐋"Watch the birds."

Great hike up Mt. Alyeska, Girdwood, AK 2300ft ~2 miles. Not Mt Hood but that was 20 years ago :) #HappyFriday #Alaska

Cheers to Monday from Denali National Park 🗻 #Adventure #Denali #AmyLeneker

Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk — For this week's #LiftToTheSky Grinding my ink (haikus) Margaret Chula “jogging past a pond of purple iris twilight thickens”

Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk — For this week's #LiftToTheSky Dream Work (again) by Mary Oliver Acid “an explosion in that nest of wires we call the imagination.” #poetry #creativity #consciousness #thoughts

Many books about the future focus on what's coming next. 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹'𝘀 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦 focuses on something more useful: how we meet what's coming next. 📖 Read full review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #Thrive #AI #Attention #Future #Choices

𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗵𝘆𝗽𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝗿. In conversation with future strategist #FredMarshall, he reframes AI as a change management experience — what it means to remain human during rapid transformation. #thrive #AI #symbiosis www.bethbonness.com/podcast/fred...

Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk — For this week's #LiftToTheSky Dream Work (again) by Mary Oliver Stanley Kunitz “knowing that the hour of fulfillment / is buried in years of patience— … Oh, what good it does the heart / to know it’s not magic!” #poetry

Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk — For this week's #LiftToTheSky Calling Mary Oliver out again…heading to the beach today to look for some starfish. Dream Work Starfish “In the sea rocks / in the stone pockets / under the tide’s lips / in water dense as blindness” #poetry

Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk — For this week's #LiftToTheSky Dream Work Mary Oliver Members of the Tribe “This had nothing to do with laying down a path of words / that could throttle, / or soften, /the human heart.” #poetry

Did you know there 15 different types of lies? One of them is self-deception. That struck me - as in the stories we tell ourselves. Ouch… and one in particular caught up with me again… 👉 www.bethbonness.com/blog/how-hon... #honesty #selfdeception #lies

How honest are we - with ourselves and others?

What if we realize the most important lies we tell — maybe aren’t with other people, but with ourselves?

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Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk — For this week's #LiftToTheSky Shadow Man Margaret Chula In the Shadows “My strong father / helpless now in his new suit/ and perfectly knotted tie / hands clenched around a white rose / coffin filled with regrets.” #poetry

Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk — For this week's #LiftToTheSky Falling into the River Debbie Hall Radiologist “…I pull back / into a dark corner of the room / wrap the shadows / around me like a cloak / off mourning.” #poetry

Congratulations! @lorijonespoet.bsky.social

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This is the most vulnerable thing I've ever done. I've published my first poetry collection: The Sweetening.

Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk — For this week's #LiftToTheSky (good cape weather) by #WesJordans (a new mix of familiar emotions) “the mind complains, complains, complains, and tries to untangle the / uncomplicated” #Poetry

"You look amazing, you look beautiful," Artemis II pilot Victor Glover, the first Black man to journey around the moon, said about seeing us from afar. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/s...

NASA Unveils 1st Earth Photos From Artemis II: ‘You Look Beautiful.’

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Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk — For this week's #LiftToTheSky Blue Horses by #MaryOliver What a delight to imagine, stepping into a painting, and then stepping into a painting with Mary Oliver #Poetry #ElphrasticPoetry www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Digging for “vulnerability saplings“ in the forest fire of my earlier drafts after having my Memoir Map review call with Marion. As a "pants-plotter" I highly recommend her classes.  @memoirteacher.bsky.social #memoir #vulnerability #arguent

a frog wearing a black jacket that says " new beginnings "

ALT: a frog wearing a black jacket that says " new beginnings "

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𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 — 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗳 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀? The idea of “tiny experiments” reframes how we think about growth. What's a small experiment you can do to inch toward something bigger? @neuranne.bsky.social #ThoughtEchoes #TinyExperiments #Curiosity

𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯? www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 𝗗𝗿. 𝗠𝗮𝗷𝗶𝗱 𝗙𝗼𝘁𝘂𝗵 invites us to improve our brain function through very accessible means. I am especially interested in the lifestyle interventions he proposes I can’t recommend enough. #BrainHealth

On one of our last FaceTime calls, my 90-year-old mother resting in her barcalounger in a baroque-style, floral caftan with her iPad on her lap. “I think I’m fading away. Maybe that’s the way I’ll go…” Read more here 👉 www.bethbonness.com/blog/how-can... #BrainHealth #Resilience #Relationships

How can we become super-agers?

How can we protect our brain health? What is brain health? How can we protect ours? And why does it matter?

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