Pico Asks

> Each to his own, but if it's a choice between spending time with Megan Kelly and Emily Dickinson, which will be richer in surprises? — Pico Iyer (@PicoIyer) August 10, 2017 [https://twitter.com/PicoIyer/status/895661369189515264] Do you have to think about it?…

Music for productivity

> What's the best music for productivity? https://t.co/NIObRn4uQX pic.twitter.com/KaaEtEtg7q [https://t.co/KaaEtEtg7q] — Big Think (@bigthink) July 30, 2017 [https://twitter.com/bigthink/status/891770726377828352] I've usually got music playing whatever I'm doing. This has got me thinking…

Thoreau walks and thinks

> "The moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow." —Thoreau — Out of Eden (@outofedenwalk) July 30, 2017 [https://twitter.com/outofedenwalk/status/891678538990047232]…

Dealing with It

> A friend of mine said he didn’t know how long he could wake up to such horrible news every day. I suggested to him that he shouldn’t wake up to the news at all, and neither should anyone else. Read on [https://austinkleon.com/2017/07/27/…

Forfeiting the Future

> "You cannot forfeit the future in order to reclaim the past" –Neera Tanden https://t.co/jANY9JEF0K pic.twitter.com/CjD3iJ3HpL [https://t.co/CjD3iJ3HpL] — Harper's Magazine (@Harpers) July 27, 2017 [https://twitter.com/Harpers/status/890663085177880576]…

Walking and Creativity

> “Stanford studies have shown a person’s creative output increases an average of 60% when walking” https://t.co/FoLzKqwQM3 — Judy bernstein (@2bjudyb) July 27, 2017 [https://twitter.com/2bjudyb/status/890637018073411585]…

The Pit

http://poetsandwriters.tumblr.com/post/163447993021/imagine-that-theres-a-giant-pit-thats-opened-up I never thought of speech therapy or just the act of writing this way, but an abiding image for me during stroke rehab was me at the bottom of a pit. I could see people and objects of the life I knew and…

The secret

> NYC, bagels, and Gertrude Berghttps://t.co/umA7nnNdnv pic.twitter.com/XPI9oqHzzn [https://t.co/XPI9oqHzzn] — Big Think (@bigthink) July 22, 2017 [https://twitter.com/bigthink/status/888840693015351296]…