Mindful Matter
The more I see, the less I know.
The more we experience, the more we start to understand the world around us — but more importantly, the more we realize what is yet to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and understood. In other words, as John Lennon said (and the Red Hot Chili Peppers famously sang): “The more I see, the less I know” — a line that inspired this design. The better someone understands physics, the more they understand how much is yet to
Learn moreLove is all we need.
"So long as we have compassion for others and conduct ourselves with restraint out of a sense of responsibility, there is no doubt we will be happy." What if it really is that simple? Dalai Lama XIV famously shared a vision of how love and compassion can lead to happiness: “We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the
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Five Things We Learned About Resilience This Month
Jennifer Lioy, Creative and Communications Lead at Holstee
Learn moreDrum lessons.
A couple years ago, I decided I wanted to learn an instrument. I was between guitar (mostly for its accessibility and size) and drums (what I was most interested in — except that I was worried about the noise and storage). Then, through a series of random events, I found myself gifted a five-piece drum set. Then, a former punk rock drummer walked into our Brooklyn office
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In The Studio With Wendy MacNaughton and Courtney E. Martin
Jennifer Lioy, Creative and Communications Lead, Holstee
Learn moreNamaste.
I just want to pause and take a moment for this word. Namaste. Chances are you have heard the word at yoga, in talks, through meditations. I feel like I hear it all the time — so much so that I forget to think about what it really means. A yoga teacher explained it to me as:
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Thinking broadly and deeply.
In my work, I can be both solutions-oriented and obsessed with the details. Often this can be a good thing. But sometimes, I find that this approach is way too limiting. Let me give you an example. When I run into a problem, here is how my internal dialogue usually goes: “Oh, shoot there is a problem.” “Hmm. Ok, wait, I think we can solve it by using this tool.” “Ok, and this is how technically that tool would work for this situation and how we would implement it.” The problem is that in my haste to solve the obvious problem, I can
Learn moreAn experiment.
Today we want to try an experiment. The last two days, we talked a lot about gratitude. Today, we want to take action. Thank someone for something you never thanked them for before. Express gratitude for what they did, and share how that action had an impact on you. You can even simply thank them for who they are and what they bring to the world. If the thought of randomly contacting this person out of the blue with a message of gratitude makes you
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