This tree is located in Vashon Island, Washington.
The story goes that one day a child chained his bicycle in the fork of the tree, but when he never returned for it the tree grew around the bike. Sometimes Mother Nature makes her own art.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
—Harriet Beecher Stowe
Diego Stocco is music sound designer who creates beautiful melodies using unlikely objects. This video showcases Diego uses a dry cleaners store as his orchestra and irons, hangers, and a bucket full of soap (just to name a few objects) as his instruments. This video is proof that inspiration and beauty can be found anywhere, as long as you remember to keep your heart (and ears) open to finding it.
Dutch artist Tanja Smeets uses industrial materials to create amorphous, site-specific sculptures. These structures merge with her chosen location to create an eerie sense of the unnatural while still attempting to compliment the surrounding environment.
I have said before that I do not know what the most important lesson is that I will ever teach my children, Cate and Emma Claire and Jack. I do know that when they are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way — and it surely has not — she adjusted her sails.—Elizabeth Edwards, from her biography Resilience
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We believe that music has power—it reminds us that we’re alive and that it is okay to feel. This clip is from a documentary “Playing For Change: Peace Through Music” that is traveling the world recording musicians. They hope to remind us how universal the connection with music can be, regardless of our background or community.
We hope you watch and are as inspired by this video as we were.
