1. Poetry: Produce, Bear, Surrender by Chloé Leisure (she also happens to be one of my dearest friends), For When It’s Hard and For Every Secret Agent of Change and On Your Twenty-Second Birthday and Even If I’d Rather Not Know It and One Before the Big Adventure and Letter to Others in the Dark by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, The Plum You’re Going to Eat Next Summer by Gayle Brandeis and For You Who Have Loved Old Dogs by Silas House and If Night You Were a City by Adam Wiedewitsch and Parts of a Body House by Erika Meitner on The Slowdown with Maggie Smith, My Mother Told Us Not to Have Children by Rebecca Gayle Howell and Sitting on a Bench, I Doze Off Piecing Together the Day by Lance Larsen and Tabula Rasa by Matthew Wimberly and Memorial by Janna Schledorn and Almost a Friend by Esat Alpay on Rattle, Folded by Luis Muñoz and Noon by Eugenio Montale and Silence Comes from Somewhere Else by Nikola Madzirov and Love Lies Bleeding by Christina Rossetti on poets.org, Goodtime Jesus by James Tate shared by Patti Digh (that last line is so perfect), The Mighty Sage by Julia Fehrenbacher, The Pool by Jena Schwartz, Allowed To Be Ordinary and A Friend’s Voice by James Crews, Peach by Dorianne Laux shared on Heart Poems, Leave It by Maya Stein, The Most Beautiful Thing by Andrea Scher, How to Change Your Life by Maria Popova, and I Am Not All That Has Happened and Beloved by Julia Barton.

In related news, One thing can say many things from Pádraig Ó Tuama, and Watch Movies Like a Poet (“my guide to gathering poetic images and atmosphere from film”) from Alix on Earth & Verse, and Wendell Berry’s Life on Earth by Katie Myers.

2. Pendulation by Josie George on What is Here? “What are you doing to keep going right now?”

3. I Couldn’t Save My Ex. Can I Save the Planet? “Discerning what work is ours to do in times of climate breakdown” by Satya Robyn.

4. Good stuff on The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz: Things I Learned Since My Father Died and Christians Could Stop Trump’s Violent, Hateful Chaos At The Polls—And All They’d Need Is Jesus.

5. An Existential Guide to Death on The Shadowed Archive.

6. This morning, “a simple check in” from Erin Geesaman Rabke.

7. More questions than answers, “AKA. The way it should be” from Jeanette Winterson.

8. Good Stuff on The Marginalian: The True Purpose of Tarot and How to Break Free from the Tyranny of Certainty: The Japanese Concept of “Ma.”

9. Letter From Scotland, “Some thoughts on going deeper, and writers’ residencies, from a glen near Edinburgh” by Alexander Chee.

10. Recommitting to Creative Play, “with the help of my kindergarten self” by Anne Butera on In an Artist’s Garden and Studio.

11. Mossy catwalks, mycelial designs and Monty Don: the growth of gardener style on The Guardian, “Aspirational clobber, hot horticulturists and a TikTok content rise suggest gardening has never been cooler.” In related news, ‘The End Of An Era’: Frances Tophill, Rachel de Thame and Others React To Monty Don’s Gardeners’ World Departure.

12. How to host Lightning Talks. “The magic of a mini TED in your living room” by Gillian Morris on Supernuclear.

13. Pitter patter and some notes from the swirl by Lisa Olivera on Human Stuff.

14. Just a little loose. “Some things are still here because somebody bothered to fix them” by Jasmine on The Tiny Joy Project.

15. Solace by Seth Godin.

16. You need a reason to draw. “I’ll give you a bunch” by Danny Gregory.

17. The Telling. “Where we were when the world changed [on 9/11]” by Elissa Altman on Poor Man’s Feast.

18. Jokapäiväinen, “Finnish (YOKKA-pai-vai-nen): noun; Everyday, quotidian, diurnal, mundane” by Ella Frances Sanders on Orion Magazine.

19. So Many Tender Things by Laurie Wagner.

20. No One Owns 9/11 Mourning by Frederick Joseph. “Twenty-five years after September 11, the struggle over who belongs at its memorial reveals how much of its human cost we still refuse to recognize.”

21. ‘I’m sick of her talking about it’: 11 readers share how GLP-1s have affected their relationships on The Guardian. “As weight loss drugs have risen all around the world, it has reshaped users’ relationships for better and for worse.”

22. I’ve been squandering my attention. Maybe you too? by Andrea Scher.

23. CARING IS EMBARRASSING (so embarrass yourself), “the mighty wisdom of being cringe” by Brad Montague on The Enthusiast.

24. I bet there’s a story there. “The absolute miracle of junk drawers” on The White Pages.

25. A landscape of Symbols, “Creating from dreams, meditation, intuition” by Alix on Earth & Verse.

26. Tenderheart by Joanna Byrd on Short Reads. “Feeling sorry for a snake.”

27. Sara Bareilles Confronted Grief, and Found Herself on The New York Times. (gift link)