How to Feel Better When the Seasons Change? 6 Ways to Live Inspirited!

As the seasons start to change around us, the team at Inspirited Living is thinking about how to choose joy in a time of flux even when the world around us feels more anxious, more stressful, and more filled with fear. Our Inspirited Living newsletter, InSpire, is a great place to start letting the joy into your world and choosing to shift your perspective. The inspiring, uplifting, and supportive stories from around the world and from the Inspirited Living Community remind us how beautiful life can be. Here are six ideas to support your choice to #LiveInspirited! *Email Address (required) 1. How to Tune-In and Shift Perspective At Inspirited Living, we know that one of the most powerful tools we have to overcome the feeling of being overwhelmed is always at our fingertips: the power to shift our perspective. Where we choose to focus—using our power to pay attention to [...]

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Generosity In Hand: The Generous Hands Project

This Thursday will mark the 395th anniversary of the very first Thanksgiving dinner. Over these long years, many a tradition has come and gone, yet the celebration of  Thanksgiving has continued, and unified our country.  No matter a person's creed or color,  Thanksgiving symbolizes something that all of us can relate to; for we all have something to be thankful for. Each of has people in our lives that have given their time, money, wisdom, and love to us. This holiday gives us the chance to express gratitude for what we have been given, and that is what we must do. Sometimes we forget, that thankfulness and generosity go hand in hand. Thanksgiving is a day not only to celebrate the generosity of friends, family and strangers who have gone out of their way to enrich our lives, it is also a time to extend the same generosity we have [...]

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Ardmore’s ‘The Great Zambezi’

2016 saw a landmark event for Ardmore as Hermès, Paris launched our designed silk scarfs. This is the first time a South African design has been used by Hermès and we view it as an incredible honour. To commemorate this event, we are creating major works to parallel the theme of ‘La Marche du Zambèze’. The collection is dedicated to Fée’s homeland, Zimbabwe, where the Great Zambezi River forms its northern borders. View these magnificent artworks at Patrick Mavros, 104 - 106 Fulham Road, London, SW3 6HS, from Wednesday, May 18 to Sunday, May 29. If you are interested in any of these pieces, click here!

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New York Youth Symphony

Celebrating its 50th Anniversary Season, the New York Youth Symphony is the most awarded youth program of its kind in the nation, recognized for its innovative, tuition-free educational programs for talented young musicians. Founded in 1963 as an orchestra to showcase the metropolitan area’s most gifted musicians, ages 12-22, its activities have since grown to encompass programs in chamber music, conducting, composition, and jazz. Through its commissioning program, First Music, the NYYS has commissioned over 100 works from young composers since 1984.

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Fée Halsted

Fée was born in 1958 in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. In the early 70s she travelled south to study at Natal University, Pitermaritzburg for a BA Fine Arts degree. This was followed by a two-year postgraduate course in ceramics. She then lectured for a short time at the Durban Technikon but soon found herself married and living on the farm Ardmore in the Champagne Valley of the KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg, with her husband, James, in 1985.

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