It’s hard to see, but the ripple in the water on the right is a beaver
1. A situation vs a slog from Seth Godin.
2. Good stuff from Dances with Fat: International No Diet Day And The Life I Could Have Had and When Celebrities Lose Weight, because this:
…while people – including celebrities – can do whatever they want with their bodies, their choices have meaning and consequences. And choosing to participate in intentional weight loss, or to celebrate weight loss of any kind, supports weight stigma and perpetuates eating disorders by promoting the idea that a thin(ner) body is a better/more attractive/healthier body, which is at the root of fatphobia.
3. Judith Butler: Mourning Is a Political Act Amid the Pandemic and Its Disparities.
4. ‘Heads we win, tails you lose’: how America’s rich have turned pandemic into profit. The things that are “wrong” now, “happening” now, were actually already wrong and happening, it’s just that this crisis is highlighting it. It’s so simple: we have to do better or none of us will survive what’s coming, not even those sitting on a pile of money.
5. After the deaths, holiness from Rabbi Rachel Barenblat.
6. 10 Life Lessons Learned From a Decade of Blogging from Be More With Less.
7. ‘Double-Rainbow Guy’, Paul L. Vasquez, Dead at 57, most likely from COVID-19. “Yosemite, California, man became an early 2010s internet sensation with his ecstatic nature video.”
8. Castle Rock restaurant reopens to Mother’s Day crowds in defiance of statewide public health order. This is TERRIFYING. You hear how “we are all in this together” or “this virus is the great equalizer,” when clearly that’s not the case. There are both economic disparities and racial divides that mean some people are suffering more, have lost more, and are at more risk. This restaurant opening against orders, the people flooding in, smushed in there together with no one wearing masks, makes me realize we are experiencing this in very different ways, and there’s a large number of people who don’t take it seriously at all, some who even think it’s a hoax or that we are overreacting, that it is “just like the flu” and that the risk to them is small. This is what willful ignorance looks like, and sadly these people aren’t just harming themselves. The choices we all make have consequences, and some outcomes cause harm to others, even as those others are doing everything they can to manage their risk. Either you are helping or harming, and it’s clear the choice these people made. I suppose they most likely watched and believed this: Seen ‘Plandemic’? We Take A Close Look At The Viral Conspiracy Video’s Claims. They should have read this instead: The Risks – Know Them – Avoid Them.
9. An 11-Year-Old Girl Writes To Thank Her Mailman. Postal Workers Write Back.
10. Not everything will be okay (but some things will) from Austin Kleon.
11. Write = right? from Paul Jarvis.
12. How ‘Anticipatory Grief’ May Show Up During the COVID-19 Outbreak. “There’s a lot to be grieving right now with the recent COVID-19 outbreak. There’s a collective loss of normalcy, and for many of us, we’ve lost a sense of connection, routine, and certainty about the future. Some of us have already lost jobs and even loved ones. And most, if not all of us, have a lingering sense that more loss is still to come. That sense of fearful anticipation is called ‘anticipatory grief,’ and it can be a doozy.”
13. Here are the top 10 coronavirus safety tips for groceries. (video) Most of these tips are related to actually going in the store to pick and pay for your own groceries.
14. hi.this.is.tatum, a hilarious video compilation, a dog talking in the funniest voice.
15. Workers Are No Longer Heroes, Kroger Concludes. This is so disappointing.
16. Mom Shares 30 Times Her 6-Year-Old Boy Cleverly Stalled Her With Questions Before Bedtime.
17. 10 Books Recommended by Pulitzer Prize Winners.
18. Meet Magnolia, Gerber’s New Spokesbaby.
19. Comedy Clubs Are Closed, So To Reach Audiences, Comics Have To Improvise.
20. Two penguins at the Oregon Zoo, Nacho and Goat, went for a hike earlier this week. (video)
21. Fuck the Bread. The Bread Is Over.
22. Mom forgot to give her adorable son a kiss before she left for work. (video)
23. They are the most popular mariachi on TikTok. (video)
24. Nikole Hannah-Jones, Creator of the New York Times’ 1619 Project, Awarded 2020 Pulitzer Prize. In related news, ‘This American Life,’ Now a Pulitzer Winner, Is Once More a Pioneer on The New York Times. “This week, the venerable radio show and podcast received the first Pulitzer Prize for audio reporting.”
25. Susan Piver: Buddhist Wisdom to Meet the Challenge of the Pandemic on Economics & Beyond with Rob Johnson podcast. “Susan Piver—a writer on meditation and Buddhist teachings and founder of the Open Heart Project—talks to Rob about how Buddhist ideas of being grounded in the present can help us get through the uncertain times of this pandemic.”
26. Grocery Worker [of 32 years] Has Never Seen Shelves Being Emptied Like This.
27. The morgue worker who buys a daffodil for each body bag. May she continue to be safe and well.
28. 13 Ways To Stop Your Glasses From Fogging Up While Wearing A Face Mask.
29. Yoga alone, together. “The rise of at-home fitness made Yoga With Adriene a YouTube sensation. Then the pandemic hit.”
30. Humorist Lightens Depression’s Darkness By Talking (And Laughing) About It.
31. More interviews with poets by Laurie Wagner: Marie Howe and Lauren Fleshman.
Open Space Practice, (AKA: A Thousand Shades of Gray) 