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Fundraising with Purpose: Host or Join a Cluster Event on IdealHive

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Want to Fundraise in a Way That Actually Feels Good? Welcome to IdealHive. IdealHive isn’t your typical fundr...

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44 Cozy Living Room Ideas You'll Love

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From The Spruce, By KRISTIN HOHENADEL: Cozy isn't a style but a feeling, the homey ambiance of a room that ma...

Clara Vellum

2024 Toyota Land Cruiser 1958, The SUV for Real Adventures

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I’ve spent the better part of two decades around cars—test-driving them, reviewing them, talking about them un...

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True Colors

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“My boyfriend had been dead four minutes and I was asleep when he my nudged my arm. Baby, he said, I have some...

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Creating a Wildlife Habitat in Your Yard

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Imagine stepping out your back door and being greeted by a flurry of butterflies, the melodic trill of birdson...

True Colors

Karen Dukes

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Karen Dukes (American, born 1953) Vineyard Fantasy, 2007 Acrylic on canvas 24 x 30 inches Private collec...

Healthy Pleasures

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How to Create Sacred Space in Urban Life

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1. Design a Mindful Corner You don’t need much room—just intention. Set aside a small space in your home for ...

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What is Love?

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What Is Love? A Gentle Exploration of the Hungers That Shape Our Hearts What is love, really? We ask it in s...

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Awww!! Check out this baby loggerhead sea turtle waving goodbye to its nest as it crawled to the ocean after h...

Personal Growth

The Mourning Dove and the Gentle Pause, Mindfulness, Grace and Detachment

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There was once a small mourning dove who loved to perch on a slender branch just above a quiet forest path. Th...

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Nature's Best Hope

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From Goodreads: "Douglas W. Tallamy’s first book, Bringing Nature Home, sparked a national conversation about...

Personal Growth

Two Solitudes That Orbit A Reflection on Rilke, Nature, and the Sacred Balance of Love

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“Love consists in this: that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.” — Rainer Maria Rilke We ...

Going Green

Fueling Jets with Just Sunlight and Air? Switzerland Made It Happen

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In a world-first breakthrough, researchers at ETH Zurich have created synthetic jet fuel using only sunlight, ...

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Share Your Light, Why IdealHive Is the Right Place to Post, Grow, and Give Back

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In an era when online noise drowns out meaningful signal, IdealHive offers a different kind of platform—a sanc...

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Maggie Vandewalle

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Artist: Maggie Vandewalle...

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Spinach & Feta Quiche with Sweet Potato Crust

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Spinach & Feta Quiche with Sweet Potato Crust Ingredients: Cooking spray 2 medium sweet potatoes, peele...

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Hidden Secrets of Angkor Wat, A Journey Through History, Spirit, and Sacred Stone

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Angkor Wat is more than Cambodia’s national symbol. It is more than the largest religious monument on Earth. I...

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Be That Person

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I am not always good a looking for God in others. I get tired, in fear and sometimes jaded. The difference...

The First Pen

The Ecological Elegance of Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer is a lush, evocative novel that seamlessly intertwines ecology, human con...

Community Gardening

5 Ways to Attract and Nurture Monarch Butterflies in Your Home Garden

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Monarch butterflies are always a welcome and magical sight in the garden. These vivid orange beauties are stru...

Sea of little fires

The Enduring Legacy of Fred Rogers on Emotional Childhood Development in Dysfunctional Families

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In an age saturated with fast-paced media and overstimulating entertainment, few figures stand as timeless bea...

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Bee Involved

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How to Bee Involved: Join the Movement for Better Social Media and Meaningful Community At IdealHive, we beli...

The First Pen

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In films, we are voyeurs, but in novels, we have the experience of being someone else: knowing another person’...

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Istanbul

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As the next chapter of our travels continue, we’re thrilled to report that we’ve arrived in Istanbul, Turkey, ...

Going Green

Molten Salt Batteries Go Global, A Clean Energy Revolution in Heat Storage

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In a quiet facility outside Hamburg, Germany, a salt-based thermal battery is turning heads—and transforming t...

Active Planet

Distinguished Gentleman's Ride 2025

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Setting the bar high in Buenos Aires with over 2000 riders joining in #DGR2025. We can't wait to see all rides...

True Colors

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect.

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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and the...

Bits in Time

A team of scientists has unveiled a bold new theory that seeks to unify the two pillars of modern physics

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A team of scientists has unveiled a bold new theory that seeks to unify the two pillars of modern physics—quan...

Sea of little fires

Mary Oliver, A Soul Rooted in the Forest - An Ode to "When I Am Among the Trees"

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When I Am Among the Trees by Mary Oliver When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey lo...

True Colors

Jungsuk Lee

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I don't wish on falling stars anymore. Instead, I thank them for reminding me that I need to spend whatever ti...

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Matsuo Basho: A Little Fire That Walked Through Mountains

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For A Sea of Little Fires In a world driven by noise, speed, and spectacle, Matsuo Basho offers a powerful le...

Personal Growth

The Gentle Signal

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A path to considering our triggers without losing ourselves I’ve come to notice something about triggers: the...

Healthy Pleasures

The Health and Neurological Benefits of Lion’s Mane Mushrooms

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If you’ve ever seen a Lion’s Mane mushroom, you know it looks more like a snowy sea creature than something yo...

True Colors

Naomi Fuks

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Personal Growth

Shadow Work: Stepping Outside of Ourselves for Self-Reflection

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Stepping Outside of Ourselves for Self-Reflection Inherited Shame, Inner Agents, and Tools for Listening to O...

Bits in Time

Unraveling the Universe, The Best Theories Behind Dark Matter and Dark Energy

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The universe is vast, beautiful—and mostly invisible. Over 95% of what makes up the cosmos is something we ca...

Bits in Time

What Is the Most Earth-Like Exoplanet Discovered So Far?

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In recent years, the search for Earth-like exoplanets has captured the imagination of scientists and space ent...

Sea of little fires

Wendell Berry: The Voice of Stillness in a Restless World

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When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life an...

The Fog Walker

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At any moment, you have a choice that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.” – Thich...

Espiritu

John O'Donohue

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The spirit of a time is an incredibly subtle, yet hugely powerful force. And it is comprised of the mentality ...

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Going Green

The Cheapest Energy Sources in 2025, What Powers the World for Less?

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Energy powers everything—our homes, phones, businesses, even the electric car you just posted about on Instagr...

True Colors

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Guest Posting with Purpose on IdealHive

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In an era when online noise drowns out meaningful signal, IdealHive offers a different kind of platform—a sanc...

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Initial reflections on Accountability in education Meeting our commitments

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From Right to Education, David Archer: "The new Global Education Monitoring Report is ground-breaking in pla...

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