After losing someone she loved, artist Candy Chang painted the side of an abandoned house in her New Orleans neighborhood with chalkboard paint and stenciled the sentence, "Before I die I want to _____." Within a day of the wall's completion, it was covered in colorful chalk dreams as neighbors stopped and reflected on their lives. Since then, more than four hundred Before I Die walls have been created by people all over the world.
Candy Chang is an artist who believes in the power of our public spaces to help us make sense of our communities and ourselves.
Habits are the hardest thing to change. I had been trying to change a little, nervous habit I had since I was young. I kept saying "I've got to stop that" in my head but the thought never turned into action. I decided that my one New Year's Resolution this year...
On a quest to bring vividness to ordinary experiences, Holiday Mathis is an artist who defies category. Her fascination with how our interior worlds connect to the cosmic swirl has led her to place among the world's most prolific columnists with well overeight...
During the pandemic I was invested in, and was working remotely, with a start-up. The business was struggling without an operations director so I decided to do that job and move up to Northern CA for a year to get the business up and running. Pam K. LA
Was my hip replacement surgery, put it off for 8 years - finally taking care of it in April! Pam K. LA
I made a change last year. For some years health issues prevented my husband and me from taking our regular foreign travels, which had often been our happiest times together. Covid hit and cemented our predictable homebody status in a way that was confining. I...
So what am I postponing?! I’m postponing true human interaction for financial stability. This lead me to the thought that maybe I should volunteer 🤷🏾♀️🤔. If I’m of service, then maybe I won’t have to worry about meeting good people, having anything of material...
I am postponing fixing things. Fixing relationships that are either strained or have just lost touch, fixing things that are broken like a hurt hamstring that I have had for years, or something in the house needing to be fixed. I think it's because I know how much...
A Postpone Nothing moment from the archives. A group of friends decided in September 2018 to learn the "Thriller" flash mob routine thinking it would be fun to trick or treat in their neighborhood and flash mob their neighbors. Gathering at homes and practicing...
You 'll find the whole movie on Hulu. This documentary shows how Doug Tompkins became who he was and the challenges he faced with buying, conserving, protecting, and re-wilding, land in South America. It was not easy. As the film shows us though so worth it.
It's not too late to attend the Stockholm Writers Festival -August 18-20. Do you love to write? Have you stopped yourself from ever beginning or keep putting off what you are being called to do? Lean into your passion and take action. Make a promise to begin...
1 Person Made a Difference: This is worth watching. The nonprofit global cleaning crew called The Ocean Cleanup, led by founder and CEO Boyan Slat, announced recently that it had reached viability of its ocean plastic-collecting System 002 technology and...
Carl Sagan once said, “We are made of star stuff.” In her original poem, Melissa Bond, explores the human connection across the universe. Accompanied by Maya Love Coppola. Melissa Bond is a poet and journalist and was the Associate Editor and Poetry Editor of the...
