1. What Can You Do Once You’re Vaccinated? on The New York Times.

2. together on aisle 15 from Karen Maezen Miller. “We are and will always be saved by the grace of community, by human wonders and works, faith and fellowship, led from the bleak bondage of fear to the promised land of rest.”

3. The Holistic Trans Body Poster, a really great infographic that explains a lot.

4. 26 of the Best Narrative Nonfiction Books.

5. We Are All Fragile Creatures by Roxane Gay. “The Manufactured Moral Panic of a Free Krispy Kreme Doughnut.”

6. Hannah Gadsby on the “Comfort Cocoon” She Calls Her Clothes. “The comedian and writer decided to drastically minimize her wardrobe ‘because my sense of self is not defined by how the world sees me, it is defined by how I feel in the world.'”

7. How (and Why) to Welcome Insects Into Your Yard. “Gardening isn’t just about plants. It’s about the entire ecosystem those plants can support.”

8. Strawberry Shortcake Recipe. I can’t wait for strawberry season!

9. A thing about ‘normal’ from Seth Godin. So weird, because RIGHT before I saw this, I was thinking about the problem with “normal,” and how what is considered the norm is simply those with the loudest voice, the biggest platform, the most power claiming what they “like,” what they prefer, what makes them comfortable, and that’s not anywhere near the truth.

10. 4 Reasons Not To Kill Yourself (Read This First).

11. Good stuff from Lion’s Roar: Buddhism’s “Five Remembrances” Are Wake-Up Calls for Us All (“Perfectly clear, compassionate, and concise, the ‘Five Remembrances’ are Buddhism at its very best. Koun Franz explains”) and Let Your Heart Break (“In this excerpt from her book Steady, Calm, and Brave, Kimberly Brown offers a practice for letting your heart break when the weight of the world leaves you angry and overwhelmed”).

12. How to Manage Health Anxiety as a Highly Sensitive Introvert.

13. Our Love Is Nothing Like an Apocalypse, “the miracle” and “the optimism will not hold,” two poems by Emily Adams-Aucoin.

14. 35 Teachers In This Online Group Talk About Students They’ll Never Forget.

15. The Thirst Was Real For Ron Isley And His Beard After Isley Brothers’ Verzuz Performances.

 

 

 

 

1. On being introverted: 6 ‘Rules’ For Being Friends With an Introvert, and How Understanding My Introverted Nature Transformed My Career, and How Meditation Helps Me Thrive as an Introvert.

2. Why We Suffer: Meditation & The Three Root Poisons, an online meditation class with Adreanna Limbach.

3. And who are you really? from Seth Godin.

4. Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out, a poem by Richard Siken.

5. Decluttering 101: 10 Rules to Help You Live with Less Stuff from Courtney Carver on Be More With Less.

6. “The food movement became the wellness culture, which is just diet culture rebranded by Gwyneth Paltrow.” An interview with Virginia Sole-Smith “about weight stigma, diet culture, #bopo, men’s disordered eating, 75Hard, and so much more.”

7. Short Film Sundays. “Short films from creators of color. The first Sunday of every month!”

8. Meaning from Karen Walrond on Chookooloonks.

9. When you are having big feelings, here’s what to do, some good tips from Jamie Ridler.

10. Something worth contemplating from Mindy Tsonas Choi: “What if our goal was not to get bigger, but to do more good? How might that change what we create, how we create it and who we might reach?”

11. My Dog Won’t Stop Sleeping In My Bed So I Had To Get Creative, but not like you think, because this: “You don’t have to be a writer to write. You don’t have to know all the rules to dig a little deeper and solve your own problems. Writing is magic. Critical, creative problem solving is magic. And it’s better than googling our problems and skimming through hardly related articles from six years ago. Which I’ve spent countless hours doing.”

12. COVID-19 related news: The Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines are very effective in real-world conditions at preventing infections, the C.D.C. reported on The New York Times, and What we’re leaving behind after the pandemic, from sweatpants to alcohol, and Covid Has Traumatized America. A Doctor Explains What We Need to Heal on The New York Times.

13. America’s gun problem, explained. “The public and research support gun control. Here’s how it could help — and why it doesn’t pass.”

14. Dad creates wholesome comics to teach kids empathy, kindness, and love.

15. A Dog Who Kept Sneaking into a Dollar General for a Unicorn Toy Gets His Plush and a New Start.