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05/26/2025
“If heaven will give me just five more years, I might become a real painter.”
That’s what Katsushika Hokusai said on his deathbed, after a lifetime of creating art, including some of the most iconic works in history.
Not finished. Not satisfied. Still reaching.
How ‘bout that?!
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05/24/2025
What’s your reason to get up in the morning?
In the world’s longest-living communities, having a sense of purpose isn’t just nice, it’s life-extending.
The Okinawans call it ikigai. The Nicoyans call it plan de vida. We call it a good reason to keep going.
It doesn’t have to be a big mission. Just something that matters to you.
How ‘bout that?!
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05/23/2025
Van Gogh didn’t just admire Japanese art, he immersed himself in it. His studio walls were covered in Hokusai prints, and when you line up The Great Wave with Starry Night, the inspiration practically crashes off the canvas.
Why did 19th-century Europe fall so hard for Japanese art? And what does that wave have to do with one of the most famous paintings in the world?
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05/22/2025
Did you know there are places in the world where people regularly live past 100? Why is that?! Author Dan Buettner set out to find out, and coined these places Blue Zones.
Sardinia, Italy is one of them, and their local Cannonau wine is part of the recipe for longevity. ?!
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05/21/2025
She posed for Renoir. Modeled for Degas. Inspired Toulouse-Lautrec.
Then Suzanne Valadon did something unheard of for the time, she stepped out from behind the canvas and became the artist herself.
No formal training. No wealthy patrons. Just grit, talent, and stolen studio scraps.
Before she was a painter, she was a circus acrobat, a single mother, and a muse.
Then she made history. ?!
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05/20/2025
You know him as Hokusai, but throughout his life he changed his name many times to reflect his evolving artistic style. At the end of his life, he was known as Gakyō Rōjin Manji, which translates to “the old man mad about painting.” ?!
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