Discoveries 4

A collection of things found…always updated occasionally.

Don’t treat your ideas like they’re nothing, don’t treat yourself like you’re nothing, because you and your ideas are important and meaningful and have the potential to become so much more than you realize.

Sarah Cooper of The Cooper Review, discusses questioning yourself to the point of paralysis in Do You Take Yourself Seriously? An inspirational read which I identify with, both as an artist in sharing my photography, poetry, and other creations, and as an individual who enjoys spreading ideas and information.

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8 Ways You Can Survive—And Thrive In—Midlife reminds us what matters most. Always keep learning is a personal mantra. Doing something new and accepting some failures are paramount to keeping our brains (and bodies) fresh.

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Inspired by the movie, The Intern (entertaining flick, btw), this is a great real-life example of how the different generations benefit from each other. Why a 70-year old retiree went back to work—as an intern.

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Connecting older and younger generations creates so many benefits. The Dutch have figured out a way to encourage cross-generational interactions, as seen in My 93-year-old Flatmate: short 3 minute video or the longer 22 minute video.

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David Grann’s exposé on the famous explorer and amateur archaeologist, Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, began in 2005 with The Lost City of Z (warning, it’s a lengthy read). He describes his journey retracing Fawcett’s 1925 quest through the Amazon for a lost city, a rich Amazonian civilization. He followed it up in 2009, with his book, Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, providing even more details of the experience. The next year, in 2010, he published Under the Jungle, detailing research done since his 2005 story that proves the existence of an extensive civilization in the Amazon as far back as the third century A.D. All of this provides the basis for the movie.

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Artist Ben Rubin adds hilariously contextual monsters to pictures of people riding the NYC subway. Wonderful stuff! SubwayDoodle at Facebook and Instagram. Unfortunately, he doesn’t take commissions. :(

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Brian Gresko, a 40 year old white man, discusses his experiences learning about racism during his own childhood and how to create positive social change through parenting of his young son in Race, Kids—and the Peril of Silence.

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