1. Poetry: Boredom by Julie Barton, Going Quantum and Watching the Goslings and The Secret of Contentment from Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer.

2. Making Peace With Failures from Connie Sun. “A comic about forgiveness and learning through failure.”

3. Good stuff from Courtney Carver on Be More With Less: 10 Simple Habits to Help You Feel Happier and Please Stop Cooking with These 3 Ingredients.

4. Writing Through Personal and Global Pain, “the world is burning. how can we possibly write?” from Esmé Weijun Wang.

5. The World Has Always Been On Fire, “What now?” by Anne Helen Petersen.

6. The most important emotion, “Pay attention to this potent messenger” by Meg Josephson.

7. Welcome to the Hope Portal, “Prepare Inwardly, with Krista — Session 1” from The On Being Project.

8. What is the home you carry with you? by Gretchen Schmelzer. 

9. Good stuff from The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz: The Cure for the Male Loneliness Epidemic in America and 56 Things I Think I Believe on My 56th Birthday and Living Your Best Life in a Dystopian Nightmare.

10. I am (now) anti-hustle, “I wasn’t always. But now I’m interested in enough” from Patti Digh.

11. 7 Smarter Questions to Help You Find Direction. (video) “What to ask yourself during changing times — or any time” from Daniel Pink.

12. Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real. “If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help.”

13. Want to cut through small talk? Try asking a ‘magical question.’

14. Recipe: the browniest cookies.

15. Ocean Vuong: “I’m The Writer I Am Because I’m Vietnamese.” “Talking to Ocean Vuong is stepping into a world where poetry, literature, and Buddhism meet—and at the center is his Vietnamese identity.”

16. With Remarkable Precision, Lito Cuts Playful Compositions from Single Leaves.

17. And finally, a few things I saved to my phone this week.