Links I Love

Links I Love

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Here is where I will share a few links of podcast episodes, blog posts, websites, TED talks, new books, etc. that I favorite each week. Refresh your imagination and fill up your inspiration tank. Happy weekend!

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Srini Rao’s The Unmistakable Creative Podcast is definitely on the top of my new favorites. (It’s not a new podcast, but one I just started listening to.) I’ve been inspired to think differently and encouraged on my nontraditional path of living creatively.

The first one I listened to is with Michael Ellsberg, author of The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won’t Learn in College About How to Be Successful and The Last Safe Investment: Spending Now to Increase Your True Wealth Forever, both which I ordered second-hand copies of as soon as I finished listening. Spending Now to Increase Your True Wealth Forever isn’t really about spending, but it is about investing, about taking a risk and being willing to live differently in order to have a meaningful life. I sent this one to my son, an Uber-creative person in the hope that he listens too.

The second one is with Kate Swoboda: The Courage Habit. She is the author of a book by that title as well as a life coach who has a training program for other life coaches. In this podcast, Kate talks with Srini about facing our fears and acknowledging they exist, but not letting them run our lives. You need to hear this! I can’t wait to read her book.

In honor of National Poetry Day, here are two blogs that are pure poetry:

Caliath.com is poetry blog from a fellow WordPresser. I’m so glad I found it! This poem is a lovely pick.

David Whyte just released a new collection of poetry: The Bell and the Blackbird. I can’t wait until my copy arrives! Also, view David’s TED talk here.

And lastly, two posts on the importance of poetry: Why Poetry is Necessary by Elizabeth Alexander and How Poetry Can Change Lives by John Burnside.

 

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Happy Saturday! This is the day when I share my sources of inspiration from the week.

In This is post 7,000, Seth Godin shared about blogging consistently, no matter what, day in and day out for decades! What can I say? This man kicks me in the pants nearly every day, pulls me out of my tailspin and generally helps me get my head back in the game with every single post. Because he has chosen to be faithful to write and I wake up to his words in my inbox each morning. He is a bit like an angel in the Bible, arriving with the greeting, “Fear not!” Don’t we need those words, people? No matter what we do for a living, we need to hear them. And if we are using our creativity to make a living, we can feel like we are drowning in fear. Then Seth comes along with his words and puts courage back into my quailing heart and mad mind. Oh, yeah, I can do this and I will.

On Being had this post about busyness being a thief of intimacy. It’ll stop you in your busy tracks, make you turn off your phone or close your laptop and look into the eyes of your loved one and really see them.

I felt validated about my own need to keep my surroundings neat and organized when I read this post.

Sarah Bakes Gluten Free has a gluten free vegan mocha cream pie that I am definitely making for dessert this Thanksgiving. Yum!!!

And, for the men in your life, Anne Bogel over at Modern Mrs Darcy has some great gift ideas.

Speaking of men, Michelle Obama says you need friends. We all do, of course. And it gets harder to make and keep good friends as we get older, but we need to invest in friendships. Don’t give up! You need others and they need you!

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My friend Laurie and I.

Have a great Saturday, everyone!

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Following in the footstep of other bloggers, I am sharing a collections of blog posts and articles from around the web that encouraged or inspired me this week.

Here is an article from Poets & Writers Magazine that lists fifty literary magazines and small presses that have no fee for submissions. This makes me happy! Here are fifty free chances to be published somewhere!

Seth Godin tells us to stop worrying so much about Google and SEO and do important, unpredictable work in his post Machine Unreadable.

Food and Wine have 20 Curry Recipes on their website. Some are pure meat and some contain meat, but some are vegetarian or pescatarian. And I certainly know how to adapt recipes.

Modern Mrs Darcy educates us on book awards we may not be aware of. She also talks about time management in this post and mentions using Eisenhower boxes which I first saw in Stephen Covey’s book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change, but never knew that’s what they were called.

The recipe for raspberry almond crumb bars on Sarah Bakes Gluten Free makes me want to try it!

My favorite podcast episodes: Just the Right Book podcast episode  about a heroic true story in Nazi-occupied Paris and Jen Hatmaker’s For the Love podcast episode with the author of the Against all Grain cookbook.

 

Happy weekend adventures to all!

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