Open Heart Studio

09/15/2025

Very inspirational and goes against the stereotypes of aging as diminishing......

Jean Banas is a 92-year-old abstract expressionist and a major surprise to many critics and collectors who make the ageist and sexist assumption that her dyn...

08/12/2025

“If we are to claim the last years of life as years that hold the possibility of awakening into equanimity and lightness, into the very embodiment of grace, we need to bear witness to the ripening of that possibility. Not only would it be a blessing for each of us, it would be a blessing for a world starving for such witnessing.

Mindful of impermanence, the breath-by-breath arising and abiding and falling of each moment, we can remain in remembrance of our longing to exist in wisdom and love and compassion. We can remain in our intention to ripen into the spiritual maturity that is our birthright to cultivate. There is no more noble way to spend these years than to become an elder, to bear witness to the world as placeholders for peace, love, wisdom, and fearlessness.”

~ Kathleen Dowling Singh

[Photographer: Michele Mattei; photo of artist, Betye Saar]

08/12/2025

We’re both blessed and cursed, you know. Blessed because the veil has slipped. Cursed because once you see it, you can’t unsee it. It’s not just that we’ve grown tired of the blustering buffoons—those barnyard bully-boys whose banalities have propped up their egregious enterprises and cemented their petty empires into global hegemonies. They’ve been calling the shots, narrating the script, deciding who gets to speak and what counts as truth for far too long now.

But here’s the shift: whether it’s because we’ve found alternative sources, built our own little networks, or simply learned to detach altogether, nothing kills an official narrative faster than the audience walking out mid-performance—refusing not just the plot, but the entire incredulous premise. And once enough of us stop buying tickets, the whole damned theatre collapses.

This Full Moon calls it—clear, cold, and merciless in its brightness. You can see it too, because somewhere along the way, you've sussed just how brittle the whole song-and-dance really is.

Read the full article...
https://open.substack.com/pub/angstoic/p/end-of-story-the-full-moon-at-1659?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

[Art: Laura Makabresku]

11/09/2024

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11/08/2024

06/10/2024

This artist’s work is amazing ans a wonderful example of the power of art to heal and transform…….

05/20/2024

This seems like a great idea to try here……

In Svezia, ad Helsingborg, esiste una struttura chiamata Sällbo apartments, con circa 50 appartamenti, dove gli inquilini provengono da generazioni e culture diverse e si impegnano a socializzare tra loro per almeno due ore a settimana. Un modo, questo, escogitato dai servizi sociali, per combattere l'abbandono delle persone anziane, che si ritrovano spesso sole e isolate. Questo complesso residenziale offre un condominio con servizi condivisi, dove giovani e meno giovani vivono insieme. Di solito gli inquilini si incontrano in cucine e spazi condivisi dove possono cucinare e condividere i pasti, fare un puzzle o guardare un film insieme, oppure un inquilino più giovane può aiutare a cambiare una lampadina al suo vicino anziano, e così via. Allo stesso tempo, avendo spazi comuni, queste soluzioni abitative sono solitamente molto più economiche di quelle classiche, e permettono ad ogni inquilino di risparmiare sull’affitto e le bollette.

04/02/2024

150+ ideas from nature that fill your life with calm, clarity, creativity and good health.

04/02/2024

How good are you at making decisions? One of life’s indispensable skills, the art of decision-making is seldom given the importance it is due. In the labyrinth of our minds, making big decisi…