1. You will receive a body.You may love it or hate it, but this one body will be yours for the duration of your lifetime on earth.

2. You will be presented with lessons.You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called “life.” Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or hate them, but you have designed them as part of your curriculum.

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons.Growth is a process of trial and error: experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately “works.”

4. A lesson is repeated until learned.A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go to the next lesson.

5. Learning does not end.There is no part of life that does not contain lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

6. “There” is no better than “here.”When you’re “there” has become a “here,” you will simply obtain another “there” that will again, look better than “here.”

7. Others are only mirrors of you.You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself. Each reflection is an opportunity for growth.

8. What you make of your life is up to you.You have all the tools and resources you need, what you make of them is up to you. The choice is yours.

9. Your answers lie inside you.The answers to life’s questions lie inside you. All you need do is look, listen and trust.1

0. You will forget all this at birth.Throughout the process of life, you will have opportunities to remember if you choose.

Source: Ten Rules For Being Human – Dr. Chérie Carter-Scott, MCC

Olivas: I would say, help me carry forward the message about what the suit is. As much as this machine is to keep the human being alive in the space — like solo spacecraft — it’s the contributions that make it right. It’s all those engineers who go through kind of an anonymous perspective in their entire career, and you’re never really knowing what they do. But it just happens because of a human being behind it. That team, I’m part of today, and I want to make sure that that becomes clear.

Source: This astronaut took 5 spacewalks. Now, he’s helping make spacesuits for future ISS crews (exclusive) | Space

Source: Josep Tapiró y Baró – Lines and Colors

Beautiful work.

Muhammad Fatchurofi translates the dappled, grainy textures of the printing press into his vivid illustrations.

Source: Primary Colors and Dappled Textures Give Muhammad Fatchurofi’s Illustrations a Trippy, Nostalgic Feel — Colossal

Source: Taylor Anton White

Bringing together recent videos with a new body of photographs and prints that sets written words aside in favor of mark-making outside of text, Unsewn Time asks us to consider our relationships to unpredictable change and ruptures in time.

Source: Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Unsewn Time | The Art Institute of Chicago

For Unsewn Time, Rasheed worked with mark making, rubbing, folding, chemical reactions, and other material explorations to consider how meaning is conveyed in forms that are created through intimate rituals and improvisational processes. Rasheed painted and collaged directly on light-sensitive photographic paper to create two large-scale works for the exhibition. She played with the quantity, order, and duration of applying photographic developer and fixer, as well as the introduction of slivers of light. She also worked with materials such as vaseline, ink, and rubbing alcohol, consciously ceding control and letting chance effects guide her working process. In addition to these material interactions, she considered her full body as an important tool in this process. In her home studio, she used the weight of her walking or rolling over the paper with her body to create marks, impressions, and varying distribution of chemicals.

And here’s how to make yourself a little alcohol heater, in case you lose power. This is a small one but you can make them bigger.

That’s it for today. Nothing profound here.

How S Group became Finland’s most dominant retailer

Source: The Cooperative That Could – The American Prospect

 

S Group’s quiet efficiency is instructive for American leftists as well. Perhaps thanks to the heavy influence of academics on the American left, we have a habit of producing analysis from 30,000 feet, or based on highly abstract metaphysical theories. S Group reminds us of the value of practical expertise and concrete benefits for the broader population. For any institution of serious size to benefit people, careful attention must be paid to the dull details of management and logistics.

S Group might not be the most sizzling, eye-catching subject in the world. But sometimes, it turns out, great successes are like that.