sunday morning with alain.
Socrates on self-confidence, part of Alain de Botton’s documentary A Guide to Happiness, based on his book The Consolations of Philosophy. His latest thought piece, Religion for Atheists, explores what secular movements like education and the arts can learn from religious concepts and delivery formats.
(via Open Culture)
Hey guys!
Happy Birthday, David Foster Wallace. You would have been 50 today.
Open Culture: David Foster Wallace: The Big, Uncut Interview (2003)
Hi Pack!
Team Wolf here. It’s time for us to make our third investment in a Girl Effect organization. We feel so seriously lucky to have had such fantastic responses to our first two investments. Your contributions helped provide one girl in northern India with transportation to and from school for an entire year and another girl in Uganda start her own business providing solar power light to her community. Both of these amazing projects have yet to hit their target fundraising goals so if you are interested in learning more and giving more, please visit their websites:
The Blossom Bus Project
Solar Sisters
This week, we will be donating $150 to Soccer Without Borders’ Impact Nicaraguan Girls Playing Soccer for Change Project. With $150, Soccer Without Borders will provide one team a full week of soccer including 3 soccer practices/games, 1 team building session, 1 workshop and 2 homework hours. The project works with 80 girls, ages 7 to 19 in Granada and believes that teams provide girls with a network of peers and mentors that help each girl stay in school, avoid risk behavior and make healthier choices.
Thank you, as always, for helping us make this investment. It is only through the sale of Wolf’s music that we are able to do it. So buy the music, spread the world, and be part of the Girl Effect:
Website
Facebook
Twitter
Much wolfie love,
Wolf and the Team
Key phrase: ”If it looks like your Valentine’s Day will mostly consist of peering out the solemnly opaque window of your withered soul, daydreaming of The One that got away, as you bitterly scorn the gleeful visage of the ‘newly coupled,’ then this is all the companion you need.
“ Happy Sunday, my dear companions. Full text here:
“And we can’t stress this enough.
We sold out of the first shipment of Wolf Larsen’s new album, Quiet At The Kitchen Door. But lucky us (And YOU), the new shipment just arrived!
Like we said… ‘A slight Wolf addiction has swept over Viracocha,’ But an addiction absurdly positive in every way… as KIVA, The Girl Effect, and many other organizations that invest in the education of girls around the world, will benefit directly from the sales of this marvelous NEW RELEASE.
Go to www.wolflarsenmusic.com for a sampling & immediate download, or simply visit a local Viracocha, near you!
If it looks like your Valentine’s Day will mostly consist of peering out the solemnly opaque window of your withered soul, daydreaming of The One that got away, as you bitterly scorn the gleeful visage of the “newly coupled”, then this is all the companion you need.
These songs will speak to your sarcastic & dimly beating heart, in ways, that will not only resurrect, but reinvigorate your passion towards that far off tomorrow, whose maliciously delayed arrival has proven so very unkind to you in the past. No need to sit and skulk all day. Might as well find some miniscule hope amidst the treachery of being you!
Or Simply Enjoy Her Amazing Voice & Compositions with a lighthearted sense of self, and view the coming days, as an opportunity to celebrate LOVE in its various delicious forms… (And by “forms”… I-I-I mea-mean “Positions”!!!)”
~Viracocha, February Letter
998 Valencia St., SF, CA, 94110
http://viracochasf.com/
My friend and hero, Kelly McFarling’s incredible banjo cover of “I Wanna Dance with Somebody.” It is so good. Rest in peace Whitney Houston. You were a friend and hero to girls with hairbrush-microphones everywhere.
Two weeks ago we officially kicked off Wolf’s commitment to donating 15% of sales of Quiet at the Kitchen Door to the Girl Effect by investing $150 in the Blossom Bus Project, a program run by Lotus Outreach that employs local buses in rural India to bring girls to secondary school. With $150, the Blossom Bus project can provide one girl with transportation to and from school for an entire year.
And this is all thanks to YOU. When you buy the album, we’re able to donate the money - so WE thank you, the Blossom Bus Project thanks you, and the girls in Mewat, Haryana who are now about to get to school also thank you. You’re awesome.
This week, we are excited to announce that we will be donating another $150 to the Solar Sister Girls’ Empowerment Program. Solar Sister works with girls in rural Uganda to form micro-enterprise clubs. These amazing gals sell solar lights, thereby not only providing electricity to their communities but also earning money for schools fees. With $150, Solar Sister will be able to provide a starter business to one girl.
Access to light, technology and business skills provides girls greater opportunity and empowerment and improves quality of life for their communities – all part of the Girl Effect and mission critical for us here at Wolf Larsen.
To buy the record or for more information, please visit our website, ‘like’ Wolf on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter.
Tonight I had to inform someone that Robert Palmer died in 2003. It made me all sad all over again, because how often do you get talents like him in this world, let alone this life?
Most existential Robert Palmer commentary of 2012 to date, no doubt.
Our friend Wolf Larsen. Wild things. For a Wild Weekend. We especially like their crowns.
Nice.
Our Wild Things video just got featured on one of my favorite blogs, Stay in the Light. Check it out for howling, stomping, paper crowns and the full band in tweed.
Have a great weekend all - and stay in the light.
