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1. How to help Texas during winter storm blackouts. In related news, How to Help Texans Recover From the Winter Disaster, and How to help, and what to do if you need it, during Texas’ historic freeze, and When a busy H-E-B lost power, store told Texans gathering supplies to ‘go ahead’ without paying.
3. This 108-year-old artist proves that age is just a number! (video)
4. When Death Comes: An Oncology Nurse Finds Solace in Mary Oliver.
5. Recipe I want to try: Snowball Cookies.
6. What you’re feeling is grief. “The layers of cultural trauma we experience on top of our personal losses can feel all-consuming. We are isolated. We are lonely. And we are all, in some way, grieving.” 🥺
7. Inseparable gay penguin couple hatch new egg to become dads for a second time.
8. We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April. “Covid cases have dropped 77% in six weeks. Experts should level with the public about the good news.” Look, I realize that no one really knows what’s going to happen until it happens, and this is just another opinion in a vast ocean of opinions, and I can’t do anything more than I’m already doing to change the outcome, but this is the kind of opinion piece I need in my life right now.
9. What to do when you want to keep the slower pace of quarantine.
10. 21 Day Anti-Anxiety Challenge. “Here are twenty-one simple things you can do to help you cultivate a calmer, stronger, healthier mental state.” In my humble opinion, one step got overlooked: don’t call it a “challenge,” it’s too stressful.
11. More Creating, Less Hamster Wheel from Jena Schwartz.
12. Why “Gentle Writing Advice,” Exactly? from Chuck Wendig on Terrible Minds.
13. There can be no more waiting. “For almost the entire time that I’ve been self-employed I told myself that I would rest…later.”
14. The 7 types of rest that every person needs.
15. Fire and Ice from Rita’s Notebook.
16. This Is What It’s Like For Men With Eating Disorders. Diet culture sucks for EVERY BODY.
17. 5 Tips for Spiritual Activists on Lion’s Roar. “Bill Aiken offers five Buddhist insights to be a more effective agent of change.”
18. Austin Kleon interview by Rob Spillman. “The author of Steal Like an Artist talks about his popular, eclectic weekly newsletter where he shares 10 ‘things’ which can include music, TV, movies, poems, and even update s on Coconut the Owl, who has taken up residence in his backyard.” In related news, David Eagleman’s Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives and A house for Coconut.
19. ‘Somatic Exercises’ Stretch the Stress Right Out of Your Poor, Aching Body.
20. The Story of ‘Team Molly’ on The New York Times. “While her daughter was hospitalized, one mother built more room for our national grief.”
21. Beautiful Embroidery Captures Stunning Star Trails With Shimmering Beads.
22. Third graders write letters to God with some very important questions and they’re adorably innocent.
23. Is That the Cosmos or India on Diwali? NASA’s Image of Human Cell Leaves Twitter Bewildered. Our tiny insides are so beautiful.
Open Space Practice, (AKA: A Thousand Shades of Gray) 
“There Can Be No More Waiting.” That right there. That one is hitting home in a hard way. Thank you for the work you do every week here.
I’m still thinking about that one, Rita. To take that much time off, to simply be and rest? After two years of being “retired” I’m still learning how to honor what I need. 🥴