Dr. Gladys McGarey is 103 years old and considered the mother of Holistic Medicine. In this captivating and powerful interview, she shares the secrets to a longer, healthier, happier life. For mo...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2024/01/secrets-to-a-well-lived-life.html
Gasp! This library!
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/12/karl-lagerfeld-home-library.html
Reading Rhythms is not a book club. It’s a reading party. Read with friends to curated music. I love this idea!
“Some things can become true merely because we believe in them–that pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. When modern economists assumed that people are innately selfish, they advocat...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/10/a-self-fulfilling-prophecy.html
Looking At Trees, a forthcoming book, encourages us to reconnect with our natural surroundings. Ordering! (Related: I have been loving Kara Daniel’s Instagram account and where she teaches you ...
I hated it when someone asked me “What do you want to be when you grow up” when I was a kid. I should have just said A Book Doctor (via the kid should see this)
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/08/a-book-doctor-at-work.html
It’s not real, but it’s beautiful.
Seth Godin launched a new book, titled The Song of Significance: A Manifesto for Teams and the People Who Lead Them. It is a a rousing contemplation on work: why it is the way it is, why it’s g...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/06/the-song-of-significance.html
“You have to be unreasonable to see the world that doesn’t yet exist!” – Will Guidara
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/03/unreasonable-hospitality.html
How to act around books.
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/02/how-to-act-around-books.html
A Good Used Book is a pop-up book store specializing in sharply packaged vintage paperbacks. My daughter is a fan. And we both agree, they have the most adorable branding. You can read an LATimes...
“When considering whether to buy yet another book, you might well ask yourself when you’ll get around to reading it. But perhaps there are other, even more important considerations, such as t...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2022/11/the-virtue-of-owning-books-you-havent-read.html
I am completely enamored by Alexander Korea-Robinson’s book art.
Whoa! The RGB Colorspace Atlas by New York-based artist Tauba Auerbach is a massive tome containing digital offset prints of every variation of RGB color possible.
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2022/10/tauba-auerbachs-rgb-colorspace-atlas.html
I just now stumbled upon Tanya Moushi’s book Love is The Business Plan. The title made me gasp and I of course instantly downloaded it. So, while I haven’t read it yet, I am enamored by this ...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2022/09/love-is-the-business-plan.html
ManyBooks was established back in 2004 to provide an extensive library of books in digital format for free to anyone on the internet. Today it hosts over 50,000 free ebooks with many classics, bu...
“The right person will know how to hold your love. The right person will choose you just as deeply as you choose them. You will not have to quiet the way you care, you will never feel like you ...
This is a poem for someone who is juggling her life. Be still sometimes. Be still sometimes. It needs repeating over and over to catch her attention over and over, as someone who is juggling her ...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2022/06/a-poem-for-someone-who-is-juggling-her-life.html
This episode of the Farnham Project Podcast is pure gold. Listen to Jim Dethmer, founding partner at the Conscious Leadership Group and the co-author of the insightful book, The 15 Commitments of...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2022/05/leading-above-the-line.html
I remember the morning in 1999, shortly after moving to NYC, when the coffee cart guy had my coffee and bagel ready by the time I arrived at the cart. He saw me coming. He made me feel home in a ...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2022/04/consequential-strangers.html
“…quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you an...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2021/12/i-was-in-love-with-the-city.html
Yes to the Bookscrew. I like.
“Equanimity boils down to this: Everything is great and I am ok. Everything sucks and I am ok.” – Jerry Colonna From the book Reboot.
Yung Pueblo birthed a new book: In Clarity & Connection, Yung describes how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react in certain ways. If you’re not fami...
I am so grateful I stumbled upon Dr. Elaine Aron’s work around the concept of Highly Sensitive Person. I feel seen. (Thanks Yvonne!)
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2021/03/are-you-a-highly-sensitive-person.html
This houseplant pop-up book by Daniel Gordon is giving me all the plant-loving-feels.
In this wonderfully deep conversation, Adam Grant discusses his new book “Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know”—and the value of checking in and checking up on yourself. ...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2021/02/adam-grant-on-design-matters.html
“your purpose your art will land in the hearts it’s meant to you won’t be for everyone but you are for someone and to that someone what you have to give matters and that’s the beginning o...
“A book is nothing but a cube of hot, smoking conscience.” — Boris Pasternak
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2021/02/hot-smoking-conscience.html
I just stumbled upon this gem of a Tweet. I mean, look at these images? Look at the happy carrot man!
I started a growing repository of my favorite and wishlisted books over on Bookshop. What a book you love and I should put on my radar? Bookshop is an online bookstore with a mission to financial...
From the Book Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman. (via Bailey)
Jenny Volvovski is the force behind From Cover to Cover, an online archive of book covers she has redesigned after reading them. I love this so much!
I have a small obsession: Hollow Book Safes. There is something beautifully intriguing about hidden secret book compartments. I don’t really understand the amount of joy this brings me. But her...
I went to Greenlight, my local book store, and discovered this Cauliflower Recipe Book. I gasped as I saw it sitting on the shelf! I have a deeeeeep love for all things cauliflower. I mean DEEEEP...
“Deep listening is an act of surrender. We risk being changed by what we hear. When I really want to hear another person’s story, I try to leave my preconceptions at the door and draw close t...
I am very excited about getting my hands on one this Accidentally Wes Anderson Book. In case you’re not familiar with the Instagram account Accidentally Wes Anderson, it’s one of my favorites...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2020/10/accidentally-wes-anderson.html
I hope this Library Stamp Jumper will be back in stock soon. So good.
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2020/10/library-stamp-jumper.html
“The only time we really know what’s really going on is when the rug’s been pulled out from underneath us and we can’t find anywhere to land. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Things falling ap...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2020/09/when-things-fall-apart.html
“Ask yourself honestly: are you looking for a steady, predictable life? Is this what you want? If so, you must realize that the world cannot offer you this. Everything in the world is in the pr...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2020/08/ask-yourself-honstly.html