Author Archives: kateco

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. I cannot express to you how much you need to hear these tiny skunks sounding like gargling muppets pic.twitter.com/rEJw0vwI4s — Effie Seiberg … Continue reading

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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.) Have you experienced this sweetness? pic.twitter.com/zJJihDzBDC — Be A King (@BerniceKing) April 12, 2020

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Morpho butterflies

Click the play button below to see them flutter. Click here to learn more about Morpho Butterflies. morpho butterflies, this video is so magical 🦋✨ pic.twitter.com/Y95tUh5ksg — kmctcreative 🦋 (@kmctcreative) April 13, 2020

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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 … Continue reading

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Visit the 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 … Continue reading

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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. ‘Peanut, get out of that mud puddle.’ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/t3oGeGrS3k — Southern Sister Resister (@ResisterSis20) April 6, 2020

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Nature videos on YouTube

Watch the Wild Poland documentary above or visit this page to see dozens more.

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British Museum room by room

Visit this page to explore the vast British Museum room by room. Each room has a description of its collection and beautiful photographs of highlight pieces.

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Bringing the zoo to you at home

Zoos across the country are sharing their animal lives on the internet. Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo is closed in the corona virus crisis, but they are sharing the zoo with the world via the internet. Check out their Zoo to You … Continue reading

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Click for Baby Snuggles!

If you’ve had a rough week check out Little Man snoozing with his very good boy. pic.twitter.com/odEDkeFqpn — Back To Nature (@backt0nature) April 4, 2020

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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 … Continue reading

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Visit the world’s museums

Joy 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 … Continue reading

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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 Philosophy.  Click here to see the … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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