Category: Photos

  • The Hidden Power of Smiling

    The Hidden Power of Smiling

    Ron Gutman reviews a raft of studies about smiling, and reveals some surprising results. Did you know your smile can be a predictor of how long you’ll live — and that a simple smile has a measurable effect on your overall well-being? Prepare to flex a few facial muscles as you learn more about this…

  • Nature, Beauty & Gratitude

    Nature, Beauty & Gratitude

    Nature’s beauty can be easily missed — but not through Louie Schwartzberg’s lens. His stunning time-lapse photography, accompanied by powerful words from Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast, serves as a meditation on being grateful for every day. Tiny women carry amazingly large bags, twice their eighty-pound weight. Some of the women carry babies in slings…

  • Your body is my canvas

    Your body is my canvas

    When you work in a traditional office and have a question, instant gratification is hard to resist. It’s so easy. Just stumble over to a co-worker’s desk, make sure they stop whatever it was they were doing, blather on until the lights of recognition come on in their eyes, then await the answer. Unless your query concerns…

  • Thoughts on Meditation and Technology

    Thoughts on Meditation and Technology

    I don’t know why most people think meditation is a waste of time for weirdos or monks. It’s no longer the case for me. Why would we do workouts for our body muscles and never take care of our mind? When this happens, normally I grab a coffee to help get the ideas flowing, but…