“What’s the water that you first fell in love with? What’s the water that you love the most right now in your life? What’s your go-to water?” Dr. Wallace J Nichols, author of Blue Mind, asks this series of questions anytime he’s addressing an audience, and he did so in a virtual Q&A for Creative Mornings last September. These questions are personal ones, intended to remind people of the stake
Our country’s pain right now is impossible to ignore. On top of historic unemployment and an unprecedented pandemic, we are now witnessing a nationwide demonstration against systemic racial discrimination, oppression and brutality. When we are confronted with this amount of mass trauma, pain, distress, and injustice, it can be disorienting and paralyzing. It can be hard to know what to do or how to help, and it’s easy to get
When we’re considering how to change the way our environment feels, we might look at aesthetics, colors, space, or light. It might not occur to us to consider how big a role scents play in our everyday lives. Smell is one of our most inherent senses; scents can define eras, places, people and even vivid memories for us. I can remember what my childhood home smells like, the forest scents
There is so much value in making our living spaces comfortable for ourselves. Being able to feel like ourselves at home is an act of self-care. This doesn’t always have to mean rearranging furniture or making new purchases. It’s not necessarily the first thing we think of, but sound can be an easy way to make our environment more peaceful. I’ll often have music on in the house to help
Life is a rollercoaster. For those of us in California, it has been an extremely difficult time, with the wildfires and the shootings just last week in Agoura Hills, I think we are all feeling the tensions of life upon us. For those of us across the country, the recent elections have caused a lot of emotions to be stirred up. I don’t like to talk about politics and I don’t
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