Explore the Van Gogh Museum’s Van Goghs

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has posted beautiful high-resolution images of all their Van Gogh paintings. Click here to browse them all in an easy-to-scroll list.

Click here to learn more about Van Gogh’s life and work.

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Baby Skunks!

Turn on your sound and click the play button below to see and hear super cute baby skunks.

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Sweet seranade

Turn up your sound and click play below to get the sweetest, most gentle and hopeful serenade.(Found on Twitter.)

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Morpho butterflies

Click the play button below to see them flutter. Click here to learn more about Morpho Butterflies.

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AARP on Maintaining Mental Health Now

The AARP has published two quick-read articles on maintaining mental health in the time of Corona virus.

Click the links to read: How to Take care of Your Mental Health and Seven Ways to Cope with Anxiety During the Corona Virus Outbreak.

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Visit the New Orleans Museum of Art

Rocky Promontory, Monehegan, Main, Robert Henri, 1903, New Orleans Museum of Art

Click here to make a virtual visit to the New Orleans Museum of Art.

From Google Arts and Culture: “The collection is noted for its extraordinary strengths in French and American art, photography, glass, and African and Japanese works, continues to expand and grow, making NOMA one of the top art museums in the south.”

Above: Rocky Promontory, Monehegan, Main, Robert Henri, 1903

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Peanut’s Joy of Mud

The four-leggeds can teach us how to get maximum joy from the simplest things! Click the “Play” button below.

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Sweet message from Pluto

Gentle, funny, super-cute Pluto the Schnauzer charmed the internet with her advice for two-leggeds who are Staying at Home (See it here). Now she is entertaining and encouraging hundreds of thousands of two-leggeds, on YouTube, sending us good advice and good wishes during our time of crisis. She is silly and heartwarming. Check her out for a smile. Also, to see all her videos, visit her YouTube page here.

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Visit the world’s museums

The British MuseumJoy of Museums provides links to the official websites of museums, art galleries and historical sites across the world. Choose to explore by country, category of art, or view an artist’s work across many museums. The site’s home page has an often-updated weblog of interesting features and tours in many museums. Get started at the Joy of Museum home page or try this tour the works of John Singer Sargent.

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Bald eagle nest webcam

Hancock Wildlife Foundation’s bald eagle cam in Delta, British Columbia

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Oregon aquarium live webcams

Visit this page to see sharks, otters and seabirds at the Oregon Coast Aquarium. Hours Vary.

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The Consolations of Philosophy

From author Alain de Botton comes an easy-to-watch six part series that presents the wisdom of great thinkers as advice for our day to day life. Based on his bestselling book The Consolations of PhilosophyClick here to see the series.

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A soft place in a hard world

For the time being, I am converting my personal site into a place where I can share information to support my family members in these troubling times. The content here is especially for my “moms.” Expect gentle, mostly not apocalypse-related content, until further notice.

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