The Long View

Part advocacy for beneficial change and better living by design, The Long View is a guide to the how and why of a more mindful and enduring modern lifestyle.

[The Long View @longview_the]

I’m going to park this manifesto here: The 15 Commitments. They are concepts and experiences to live by. https://t.co/E3uNz5fqkD

[pastoral fantasies @apastoraldream]

after a day of tending to your garden under the hot sun, you reward yourself with a glass of honey-sweetened iced tea and a few hours spent reading on your back porch

[The Long View @longview_the]

This is giving me life 🙌🏼

[Ankith Harathi @ankithharathi]

A janitor making $4/hour walked into a Fortune 500 company boardroom. Shaking, he took a seat opposite the CEO.

"So I had an idea..." he nervously began.

Years later, that idea would become an iconic consumer brand and make him worth ~$20M.

Here's how that meeting went 🧶👇

[Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer]

At winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, the sun shines down this 5,000 year old passage and hits the back wall. The Neolithic chambered mound lies about 500m off the Brittany coast, on the small island of Gavr'inis.

[Jessica Dore @thejessicadore]

"You create in the now, with a constant push and pull, but it will take the future to understand what you're saying."

Simone Fattal on making art, an interaction between the past & the present

[The Long View @longview_the]

So. Much. Love.

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

I want the love of Black voters right now to transform into the love of Black people.

[The Long View @longview_the]

💪💘✨

[The Nap Ministry @TheNapMinistry]

Rest is not just naps. Rest is anything that slows you down enough for a mind body connection. Rest is daydreaming, walking, slow dancing, meditation, prayer, hot baths, sipping tea slowly, birdwatching, deep eye contact, etc. etc.

[Jessica Dore @thejessicadore]

Today's card. Creativity is when you feel so much for something & it generates more life than can fit inside your small body so w/ the surplus you do art. Like an external hard drive that keeps what you don't have the bandwidth to carry but can't bear to forget. Def do art always

[The Long View @longview_the]

💫 Canada 🇨🇦

[CPAC @CPAC_TV]

Fed. govt announces list of single-use plastics that will be banned as part of plan to reach zero plastic waste by 2030. Use of plastic bags, straws, stir sticks, six-pack rings, cutlery, & food containers made from hard to recycle plastics will be banned by end of 2021. #cdnpoli

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

They're 'accidental hipsters' with 'sartorial flair.'

The poh pohs and gung gungs of North America’s Chinatowns are fashion icons that should be celebrated, and @dougquan caught up with the women who've been documenting their street-style for years. https://t.co/sLkLC1qAuB

[The Nap Ministry @TheNapMinistry]

Everything is possible. Including rest.

[pastoral fantasies @apastoraldream]

you lay with a friend under a willow tree, sharing a basket of freshly picked strawberries

[Harriet Lerner @HarrietLerner]

It can take enormous courage to say “This is what I think, this is what I feel, this is how I see it differently...’” It can take enormous courage to hold to your position without getting defensive and blaming when you are being called ignorant, selfish, misguided, and wrong.

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

“This history is deep and it's toxic. That idea of racial hierarchy and white supremacy -- it persisted. I think we are burdened by this history. You are obligated to do something to address that or you become part of the problem.”

[مريم حسنا @Maryamhasnaa]

Feels like what humanity is going through as collective right now has the exact same energy as if we are all simultaneously finally cutting off our narcissistic ex that we once thought we needed.

[The Long View @longview_the]

💪🏼♥️

[Jessica Dore @thejessicadore]

Actively visioning & seeking to co-create a world where it's no longer acceptable to say you care about something if you don't act in alignment with said values, & where a value is understood to be behavioral, not ideological.

[Jessica Dore @thejessicadore]

Practice becoming an ancestor. Martin Shaw, Scatterlings.

[Lorraine Whitman @LWhitman_NWAC]

Happy #IndigenousHistoryMonth! The best possible thing you can do this month to honour the history and lives of Indigenous peoples is to look at and implement the Final Report on #MMIWG that was released a year ago. #NoMoreMMIWG #StoptheGenocide
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