• These Seattle Teachers Boycotted Standardized Testing-and Sparked a Nationwide Movement - Yes Magazine - http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/education-uprising/pencils-down

• You Are Where You Live - Sharon Begley in Mindful Magazine points to new research that suggests we live in places that fit our personality (the implication on why red states are red and blue states blue is fascinating)-  http://www.mindful.org/mindful-magazine/you-are-where-you-live

• The Past, Present, and Future of Streaming Music - http://pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/reader/streaming/?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email

• Gandhi's Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World - http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2008/05/09/gandhis-top-10-fundamentals-for-changing-the-world/

• Our Cubicles, Ourselves: How the Modern Office Shapes American Life - http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/04/our-cubicles-ourselves-how-the-modern-office-shapes-american-life/360613/

• 12 Cool Ways to Get the Most Nutrition from Your Veggies - http://wakeup-world.com/2014/04/18/12-cool-ways-to-get-the-most-nutrition-from-your-veggies/

• Why You Learn More Effectively by Writing Than Typing - http://lifehacker.com/5738093/why-you-learn-more-effectively-by-writing-than-typing

• Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One by Dr. Joe Dispenza.  "Think about that:  5 percent of the mind is conscious, struggling against the 95 percent that is running subconscious automatic programs. We've memorized a set of behaviors so well that we have become an automatic, habitual body-mind.  In fact, when the body has memorized a thought, action, or feeling to the extent that the body is the mind - when mind and body are one - we are (in a state of) being the memory of ourselves.  And if 95 percent of who we are by the age of 35 is a set of involuntary programs, memorized behaviors, and habitual emotional reactions, it follows that 95 percent of our day, we are unconscious.  We only appear to be awake.  Yikes!  So a person may consciously want to be happy, healthy, or free, but the experience of hosting 20 years of suffering and the repeated cycling of those chemicals of pain and pity have subconsciously conditioned the body to be in a habitual state.  We live by habit when we're no longer aware of what we're thinking, doing, or feeling: we become unconscious.  The greatest habit we must break is the habit of being ourselves."   Highly Recommended.

• The Oldest Living Things in the World - a photo portfolio by professional photographer Rachel Sussman - http://www.rachelsussman.com/portfolio/#/oltw/

• Paul Krugman and Bill Moyers talk about a new book that is hot, hot, hot: "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" by economist Thomas Piketty. The best summary of Piketty's core thesis and implications that I have seen so far. - http://www.upworthy.com/what-the-1-dont-want-you-to-know?c=hpstream

• Dominic Miller - Surrender (feat. Manu Katchè, Jeff Berlin, Danny Gottlieb, Mike Del Ferro, Richard Drexler) - any time Manu Katche is playing in a jazz group, it's worth a listen.  The parisian drummer is also a great composer and leader on his own.  Check out his own group's recordings sometime.

• Various Artists - Touch - Windham Hill 25 Years of Guitar - an amazing roster...

• Wilfried Rombach - Gregorian Blue Notes (Medieval Chant & Saxophone Improvisations) - one of the most unique recordings I have heard in years.  I love hybrids and fusions of almost anything, but I never anticipated I would like Gregorian chanting infused with jazz sax.  

• Patrick O'Hearn - A Windham Hill Retrospective - keeping the windham hill theme going...

• Anne-Sophie Mutter - The Silver Album - a retrospective of the great violinist's best work.

• Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Seven Days of Falling - the Nordic countries are on a roll - first the uniform levels of wealth, high ranking on the happiness scale, and now they are even excelling at jazz.  This is just one of many examples of great jazz coming from that cold part of the world.  An extremely modern and melodic record.

• "Miracles happen, not in opposition to nature, but in opposition to what we know of nature." - St. Augustine

• "My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists." - Nikola Tesla 

• "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt
  

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