1. Poetry: Loving In A Broken Time by Frederick Joseph, Untether Yourself and Scientists Say Cats Are Perfect by Julie Barton, Song “A” translated from the Navajo by Washington Matthews, Believing and belief on Poetry Unbound from Pádraig Ó Tuama, Life Lessons in an Uber in Atlanta and How and After Effects from Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, If the month of November was your friend from HannahRoWrites, A Sense of Grace by James Crews, What We Wanted by Carol Moldaw, Green Burial Unsonnet by Dante Di Stefano shared by Patti Digh, The Night Where You No Longer Live by Meghan O’Rourke on The Slow Down podcast, and Fourth of July by Rob Arnold.

In related news, Is poetry happening to you? and are you avoiding it? from Alix Klingenberg, and Emerging Form Episode 151: Alison Luterman on Striving.

2. I’m Devastated By America, So I’m Getting Out on The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz. And when he says, “getting out,” it’s not what you think.

3. ‘Come See Me in the Good Light’: The Sweetness After a Terminal Diagnosis on The New York Times. (gift link) “The film chronicles the poet Andrea Gibson’s final year of living with cancer and trying to make every second count.” It came out on Friday and I haven’t been able to watch it yet.

4. Change One Thing and Everything Changes. “Reflections 11 days after leaving Facebook” from Jena Schwartz.

5. A House of My Own Making from Laurie Wagner.

6. I’m now offering therapeutic journaling workshops! “Two options–and one is free!” from Elizabeth Kleinfeld.

7. There Can Be No Reasoning with MAGA by Robert Jones, Jr. “Like I have said before: Cults cannot be shamed and they cannot be reasoned with. They can only be stopped.”

8. The truth about distraction from Oliver Burkeman, which suggests “a more fundamental solution to distraction, one that’s incredibly simple, but not at all easy: just stop expecting hard, important, meaningful things to feel constantly comfortable and pleasant. Consider the possibility that mild discomfort – butterflies in the stomach, a sense of difficulty, a moment of boredom – might simply be the price of doing things you care about.”

9. Love Immortal: the man devoted to defying death through cryonics from The Guardian Documentary Films. “Alan has promised his wife, Sylvia, that they will be cryogenically preserved upon death, and reunited in the future. However, when Sylvia dies all too soon, Alan, now 87, falls in love with another woman and is forced to reconsider his future plans. An extraordinary love story, told with humour and tenderness about how we deal with loss, our own mortality and the prospect of eternal life.”

10. ‘I’m not as fierce as I seem’: Glenn Close on growing up in a cult, marching against Trump – and being unlucky in love. “She’s Hollywood’s biggest character actor who terrified a generation of men with her ‘bunny boiling’ turn in Fatal Attraction. Now, Close alternates the glamour of the red carpet with living in a red state. She talks about the joy of her ‘undefined’ life.”

11. The works of art that changed your life, and why. “We asked readers which book, film, song or art work changed the course of your life. From soul-stirring poems to unforgettable paintings, this is what you said.”

12. Slowly Growing. “A list of noticings…” from Erin Geesaman Rabke.

13. Asking questions leads to more questions by Laura Lentz on Writing at Red Lights.

14. All Praise to the Lunch Ladies on the Bitter Southerner. “Blessed are the women who watch over America’s children.”

15. Guilty pleasures are more than just giving in to temptation. “Psychologists are discovering what’s going on when you do something you enjoy, but also feel weird or embarrassed about.”

16. Freaky Caesars & More Restaurant Trends You’ll See In 2026.

17. How We Do Our Best Work, “three shadows and their bright opposites” by Brad Montague.

18. The Way the World Answers, “why i believe in magic” by Isabel Abbott.

19. A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C.A. Fletcher. I just finished this and really liked it — before I checked it out from the library, I researched to ensure that nothing bad happens to the dogs in this book. I use this site regularly to do so for movies, TV, and books: Does the dog die?

20. Jeff Hiller in Conversation with Special Guest Murray Hill. (video) “Comedian and Somebody Somewhere actor Jeff Hiller joins us to dive into the grit and grind of climbing the Hollywood ladder and the struggles, triumphs, and humiliations that shaped him into the wonderfully imperfect person he is today.”