Vaguely Bohemian is a celebration of the senses. If you’ve found this little corner of the internet, welcome! This site is primarily an old-style blog—a log of intriguing articles, talks, and ideas—with very little original material. It’s a somewhat random assortment, and not at all exhaustive, but my hope is that something here sparks your…
“Every time we breathe, we show a little trust in the universe.” – Yuval Noah Harari This full interview is very much worth watching, but for our purposes, this is a profound reflection on what it means to breathe, smell, taste.
Dear book nerds, you who drink ink, you who smell pages, you who love books as physical objects: I don’t know how it took me so long to find this TED talk. You will love this.
“We want to offer people the opportunity to step out of their daily lives and feel what it’s like to be in their body.” Dave Nelson https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/savu-seeks-to-reinvent-the-sauna-experience-in-vermont-and-beyond
“The next time someone asks if you’re hormonal, you can say yes – but it isn’t necessarily a bad thing.” https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180806-how-the-menstrual-cycle-changes-womens-brains-every-month
“I love how things appear different when you get close. The foreground of rolling hills in this landscape is less than 4 inches across, being the moss atop a fencepost. I used a macro lens on my Nikon D300s near Hunterston Castle in Ayrshire. I had trouble getting it all in, so I took one…
Recent research revealed high similarities in color-emotion associations. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/color-psychology/202202/associations-between-colors-and-emotions-are-universal
Why is the tea always gone? https://dobrateavt.com/our-teas/
“What’s unique about touch, when set against the other senses, is its mutuality. While we can look without being looked back at, we can’t touch without being touched in return.” https://aeon.co/essays/touch-is-a-language-we-cannot-afford-to-forget
“In Sanskrit, Sneha translates as both oil AND love… take a minute to digest that. This one term suggests that anointing yourself with oil, known as the practice of Abhyanga, represents an act of saturating yourself with love. While practicing Abhyanga, your breath slows; you savor the moment of caring for your body; you embrace…