On Things That Go 'Ping'
"Wherever we go, we are friends" -Sloth and Manatee
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It is mighty important to seek out people and environments that make your brain fire off in ways that are good for you.
For me that’s an art studio or a roomful of crazed children with art supplies or a run or even just a nice new piece of paper and a sharp pencil or some new paints. Or, say, how they display paintings at The Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) in Brazil, in glass panels so you can WALK AROUND THEM:
Finding your ping-things can be a bit tricky, especially since everyone around us is kind of doing the same search. Sometimes, it’s actually other people that help us to have ideas or feel expansive. Other times, not so much. Or we end up at cross-purposes with one another. People need quiet, but people need sound. People want to be outside, but people want to be cozy. We are all these ever-changing expanding entities bouncing off one another.
This is where art can be such a big help. Whether it is a painting, or a movie, or a book or story, or a dance or opera, if you gravitate toward that, if it makes your world feel like a bigger or better place, that’s a big clue about you. It tells you what you are hungry for. Do you keep going back to look at a certain photograph? Do you always notice a particular movie genre first? What about colors? Or shapes?
Things that go ‘ping’ for you are things that are for you, they are your friends. They are like little messages from the universe, about the you-shaped piece that emerged from all this. So be generous with yourself in seeking out and spending time with things that go ‘ping’ and never feel bad about taking time for them.
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I have been playing with Google Arts and Culture lately, and they have an art color explorer. Which shows you art by color, of course.
Wowee, a ton of award-winning nature photography. In which human people go out into an astounding world and look at it and then help us, other humans, to do the same. This one is both adorable and scary at the same time.
Remember, instead of scrolling, you can just click on some chickens according to what adjectives you think apply to them. This is therapeutic and known as Clickens.
Okay! That's enough nonsense for now.
May you make time for ice cream, may you find a new thing that makes your brain go ‘ping,’ won't you be my neighbor? - Betsy
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