Lael Johnson
@beadgold
Retired cat lady and life coach. Also a Jesus believer,/follower, creative, loves Japanese culture, Celtic music, Pinterest person and clean humor, plus other stuff.
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- “In order to seek one’s own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.”
Plato - “Hygge is humble and slow. It is choosing rustic over new, simple over posh and ambience over excitement. In many ways, hygge might be the Danish cousin to slow and simple living.”
Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living - Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.
Eric Carle - "You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books (Dostoevsky and Dickens) that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves c... See more
- We think in questions. If knowledge is a complex web inside the mind, each node is a question, and each connecting line the information you’ve picked up on the journey from node to node. The pursuit of knowledge is the accumulation of questions. They shape our identity as much by being asked as by being answered.
from Questions Are Desire Paths of Curiosity by Sindhu Shivaprasad
Commodified Hawaiian culture—the “luau,” the “hula girl,” and “aloha”—became part of the American vernacular and everyday life.
from Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire by Adria L. Imada
As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.
from Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire by Adria L. Imada
Hawaiians' authenticity as an autochthonous people was and is often tied to their relationship to land and ocean.
from Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire by Adria L. Imada
Called “natural-born musicians,” Hawaiians were considered critical to military success.19
from Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire by Adria L. Imada