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1. How to Help India Amid the Covid Crisis from The New York Times. In related news, Support Swasth & ACT Grants to procure Oxygen concentrators for India, and Give India Covid Missions, and Why the World Should Worry About India, and ‘Every Time I’m Calling, Someone Has Died’: The Anguish of India’s Diaspora (The New York Times), and Manisha Jadhav, Key Administrator at Mumbai Hospital, Dies at 51 (The New York Times).

2. The theologian behind the groundbreaking, justice-seeking Nap Ministry believes the more we sleep, the more we can wake up.

3. 6 Reasons Why I Love Being an Introvert.

4. Photographer Dana Gallagher Feeds Both Body and Soul in Her Tiny Brooklyn Backyard. The sweetest little garden.

5. Unpacking Diet Culture to Simplify Your Life by Courtney Carver on Be More With Less.

6. How to Recycle Like a Responsible Human. “Read on for all you need to know about six of the most common types of household waste and how to recycle (or throw them out) responsibly.”

7. Good stuff from Austin Kleon: I am no longer weakened by the weekend, and Not waving but drowning, and Star Wars is over (if you want it), and I’m not languishing, I’m dormant.

8. Wisdom from Valarie Kaur: “Shallow solidarity is based on the logic of exchange—You show up for me, and I will show up for you. But deep solidarity is rooted in recognition—I show up for you, because I see you as part of me. Your liberation is bound up in my own.”

9. 4 Struggles INFJs Will Relate To — And How to Overcome Them.

10. 8 Ways to Make Your Business More Body Positive.

11. W. Kamau Bell Is A ‘Wall-Tearer-Downer’ In ‘United Shades Of America’.

12. How Losing a Pet Can Make You Stronger, (The New York Times). “The process of acceptance and letting go builds the resilience necessary to navigate an array of life’s obstacles.”

13. Reaching ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Unlikely in the U.S., Experts Now Believe, (The New York Times). “Widely circulating coronavirus variants and persistent hesitancy about vaccines will keep the goal out of reach. The virus is here to stay, but vaccinating the most vulnerable may be enough to restore normalcy.”

14. Of course you’re anxious about returning to normal life. In related news, 10 Self-Help Essays to Read Before Re-entering Society, (The New York Times).

15. For author Jenny Lawson, life is brutal — and hilarious.

16. Alison Bechdel Discusses A Lifelong Affair With Exercise In New Memoir.

17. ‘Nomadland’ author Jessica Bruder’s best piece of writing advice didn’t come from a writer.

18. Actress and Comedian Patti Harrison on Her New Movie Together Together, Conquering Onscreen Anxiety, and Her Daily Bagel.

19. He Asked Strangers About Things They Regret Not Saying. The Replies Were Cathartic.

20. National Poetry Month Day 29: Ross Gay.

21. Things to Try That Might Knock Out the Virus, a poem by Richard Prins.

1. Morning walks. I’m actually kind of bummed that the sun is coming up so early now. This week I didn’t even need to use my headlamp, but that also means we are entering the time of year we have to share the trail with lots more people after having it practically all to ourselves for months and months.

2. Practice. I am especially grateful this week for The Open Heart Project and all its teachers and offerings, as well as all the dharma teachers who’ve taken the time to write books about the path. It’s so nice to be able to access dharma teachings on my own timeline even if my teachers are no where near me or even still alive.

3. Reading. This is something I’ve loved my whole life, even before I could read for myself. Besides life, the love of reading is one of the best things my parents gave me. And it will be one of the greatest regrets of my life that there’s no way I can ever read all the books I want to read.

4. Nourishment. In particular, good food that feeds ALL of me. This week we had a day that was almost 80 degrees, so Eric and I went to Dairy Queen for ice cream. Yesterday, I spend three hours cooking, made a bunch of salads (pasta slaw, broccoli slaw, and roasted sweet potato salad) and bran muffins, and right now as I type this, there are two loafs of glazed lemon zucchini bread in the oven.

5. My tiny family, my tiny house, my tiny life. I am SO lucky.

Bonus joy: the smell of citrus (lemon, lime, orange), a warm shower, that corner of the couch, shade when it’s hot outside, the early blooming flowers in my garden, raspberry plants from Janice’s garden, getting in the pool, sitting in the sauna with Eric, hanging out and writing and making plans for visiting Calyx, cooking for Chloe’, texting with Mom and Chris, other people’s dogs, the birds at the feeder, the shy tiny chickadees, bees, laundry, pay day, good movies (finally watched Nomadland and it was really good), good books, listening to podcasts while I cook, clean sheets, my laptop, my dining room “office,” my houseplants, good neighbors, reading in bed at night while Ringo and Eric sleep.