1. The Other Side of Languishing Is Flourishing. Here’s How to Get There. On The New York Times. “Research shows that the pandemic took a toll on our overall well-being and left many of us drained. Here are seven simple steps to get you thriving again.” In related news, Wintering and dormancy.

2. Artist Uses Sand and Stones to Create Land Art Masterpieces at His Local Beach.

3. A selection of top stories from the final round of the 100-word Microfiction Challenge 2020.

4. How to help India during its COVID surge — 12 places you can donate. In related news, Help India Breathe on Lion’s Roar.

5. If Your Brain Feels Foggy And You’re Tired All The Time, You’re Not Alone. “Feelings of exhaustion, irritability and mental fogginess are our bodies’ normal response to an abnormal year of pandemic life.”

6. Doctor explains how uninsured people can lower their medical bills. “In a series of videos, Dr. Calderilla explains in detail how someone without insurance could negotiate their hefty medical bills down to a fraction of what they are initially asked to pay.”

7. Stacey Abrams Contains Multitudes. “Her obsessions with public policy and pop culture came together in the new Supreme Court thriller ‘While Justice Sleeps,’ the first time she has used her own name on one of her novels.”

8. Goodwill Doesn’t Want Your Broken Toaster.

9. Can You Stop Being an Introvert? Probably Not, According to Science.

10. Here’s Everything Researchers Know About High Sensitivity, As Of 2021.

11. Good Samaritan speaks out for 1st time after jumping 25 feet to save girl in bay. “After he was involved in a five-car collision with his daughter, Jonathan Bauer jumped from a bridge to save another girl who had fallen into the water.”

12. Can We Ever Know The True Version of Our Parents’ Life Stories? “In her memoir ‘Negative Space,’ Lilly Dancyger searches for an understanding of who her artist father really was.”

13. Let’s Just Replace Every Terrible Man in the Movies With Tig Notaro.

14. “Write as if you were dying.” Read Annie Dillard’s greatest writing advice.

15. Yes, Virginia, There Is Still A Goddamn Global Pandemic from Chuck Wendig on Terrible Minds.

16. Women Who Said No to Motherhood on The New York Times. “A photographer in Berlin is capturing the lives of the consciously child-free.”

17. Good stuff from Austin Kleon: Just make something, anything, really, and Nobody wants to read a book, and The Goldilocks Theory.

18. Ani DiFranco: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert.

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.