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Friday Inspiration 535
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You’ve probably heard some version of the oft-quoted saying, “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now." Well, if you want to up your game a little bit, maybe the second-best time to plant a Miyawaki forest (or a “pocket forest”) is now. (via Kottke)
A few years ago I read Brad Balukjian’s book The Wax Pack, in which he opens a 29-year-old pack of baseball cards and tracked down each of the 15 players represented on the cards to find out how they’re doing—which is just a brilliant idea for a book. So when I saw this story about a 1998 baseball card with two rookies on it, one of which was seven-time All-Star Matt Holliday, and the other a guy who never played a Major League game, my interest was of course piqued. [GIFT LINK]
My friend Alex sent me this Atlantic story titled “I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America” and I could probably bestow upon it one of many descriptives saying it’s great writing that is exhaustively researched, but I will just say it is the funniest goddamn thing I have read in a long time, and I get the feeling that Caity Weaver probably had as much fun writing some of these sentences as I had reading them. [GIFT LINK]
I loved this thoughtful illustrated essay on cars and youth and scars and aging and machines, especially the last page (thanks, Hilary).
Legendary photographer and verified nice guy Mikey Schaefer is giving away free prints of a few of his iconic photos of Dean Potter to raise money for The Access Fund and Friends of YOSAR (the bigger your donation, the bigger your print) until May 12th or until he gets overwhelmed.
This was a fun and touching thread of replies to scroll through: People responded to the prompt “Question: how rich are you? You can’t mention money.”
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Writer, artist, filmmaker, columnist for Outside Magazine. My newsletter about creativity, adventure, and enthusiasm goes out to 15,000+ subscribers every week.
Friday Inspiration 541 This video was my first experience watching Rainbolt (who has 1.1 million followers so I guess I live under a rock) and it was oddly compelling to following him as he tracked down the location of this photo that someone sent him of their recently passed mother several decades ago. Was it Yemen or Greece? (video) Someone re-posted this old clip on social media somewhere, and I got sucked in and watched Norm MacDonald (RIP) tell this joke to Conan O’Brien back in 2009 and...
Friday Inspiration 540 My favorite part about this beekeeper who works in NYC (!) and is allergic to bees (!) was actually the quote (which might only make sense if you watch the 3-ish minutes leading up to it: "These are our little boxes. Do what you can to make it a nice box." (video) I don’t know if I have the words to describe how powerful Come See Me in the Good Light was for me, but I thought it was a masterpiece of documentary film work, and Andrea Gibson was a truly unique person who...
We Go To The Dump Seagulls, my brain announced, as I stared out the window of my little old Toyota pickup, waiting behind another truck at the entrance to the dump. Seagulls, at the dump? I asked myself, and then when the truck in front of me moved, I pulled ahead to check in with the lady at the entrance building. At the drive-up window, they weigh your vehicle, and you have to tell them what you have in your truck. This time, it was some old plywood, some chunks of foamboard insulation,...