1. Poetry: Boredom by Julie Barton, Going Quantum and Watching the Goslings and The Secret of Contentment from Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer.

2. Making Peace With Failures from Connie Sun. “A comic about forgiveness and learning through failure.”

3. Good stuff from Courtney Carver on Be More With Less: 10 Simple Habits to Help You Feel Happier and Please Stop Cooking with These 3 Ingredients.

4. Writing Through Personal and Global Pain, “the world is burning. how can we possibly write?” from Esmé Weijun Wang.

5. The World Has Always Been On Fire, “What now?” by Anne Helen Petersen.

6. The most important emotion, “Pay attention to this potent messenger” by Meg Josephson.

7. Welcome to the Hope Portal, “Prepare Inwardly, with Krista — Session 1” from The On Being Project.

8. What is the home you carry with you? by Gretchen Schmelzer. 

9. Good stuff from The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz: The Cure for the Male Loneliness Epidemic in America and 56 Things I Think I Believe on My 56th Birthday and Living Your Best Life in a Dystopian Nightmare.

10. I am (now) anti-hustle, “I wasn’t always. But now I’m interested in enough” from Patti Digh.

11. 7 Smarter Questions to Help You Find Direction. (video) “What to ask yourself during changing times — or any time” from Daniel Pink.

12. Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real. “If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help.”

13. Want to cut through small talk? Try asking a ‘magical question.’

14. Recipe: the browniest cookies.

15. Ocean Vuong: “I’m The Writer I Am Because I’m Vietnamese.” “Talking to Ocean Vuong is stepping into a world where poetry, literature, and Buddhism meet—and at the center is his Vietnamese identity.”

16. With Remarkable Precision, Lito Cuts Playful Compositions from Single Leaves.

17. And finally, a few things I saved to my phone this week.

1. Poetry: Half a Century and The Chase and Praising Paradox and I Accept and She Can’t Write from Julie Barton, Lesson from the Wildflowers from Julia Fehrenbacher, Then I Stood There a Long Time by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer shared by Patti Digh, How Should You Live Your Life: Marie Howe’s Spare, Stunning Poem “The Maples,” and I Want to Sing by Gretchen Schmelzer.

2. How to Draw A Horse (Poorly, But Sincerely), “In which I realize drawing horses is not actually about horses” by Brad Montague.

3. When the ground moves from Patti Digh. “By the time you’re in it, there’s nothing you can do except ride it out.” Also from Patti, Wonder is a liberation practice.

4. What I Know About Accountability, “My two strategies” from Jami Attenberg.

5. How To Be Happy: My 10 Secrets to Feeling Happier from Courtney Carver on Be More With Less. Also from Courtney, 12 Self-Care Practices that are a Little Unconventional.

6. Settle. Calm. Soothe. “Instructions from my higher self when distraction brought me low.”

7. The Art of Storytelling, “Bil Lepp on bringing in humor and our common humanity,” which previews this episode of Emerging Form podcast and shares a few other good things.

8. How to balance DOING and BEING from Meg Josephson.

9. Navigating Caregiving When You Need Care Yourself, “Clinging to shoulds only leads to suffering” from Elizabeth Kleinfeld.

10. Don’t let the news overwhelm you — use this tool to stay engaged. “How do we observe what’s happening without being crushed by its weight?”

11. Mystery Meets Formula, “A glimpse into my writing process” from Jena Schwartz.

12. Honoring Mental Health Awareness Month. “This May, Orion Honors Mental Health Awareness Month by amplifying the voices of those who have shared their experiences with us. What follows is a sample of 12 stories to read, learn from, and perhaps even find solace within.”

13. How gardening can help you live better for longer. “Research shows gardening preserves cognitive function, helping you live well for longer. Now, dementia patients are reaping the benefits with ‘care farms’ prescriptions.”

14. Could a ‘digital diet’ help me fix my bad phone habits? “Smartphone Nation by Dr Kaitlyn Regehr vows to help us take control. But can her methods beat the algorithms?”

15. The Creative Cauldron: Collect, Collage, Compost from Alix Klingenberg.

16. American Schools Have Been Feeding Children for More Than 100 Years. Here’s How the School Lunch Has Changed. “A new exhibition in Philadelphia explores how nutritional science, technological advances and political debates shaped the foods on schoolchildren’s trays.”

17. WTF with Marc Maron: Bridget Everett. (podcast) “When Bridget Everett was growing up in Kansas, the question ‘How are you feeling?’ was not often asked. That’s part of the reason why Bridget embraced singing and making music as her primary way to connect with people. She tells Marc how this led to the development of her live cabaret shows which got her noticed by Michael Patrick King, Amy Schumer, and eventually HBO. They also talk about how Bridget’s acclaimed and beloved show Somebody Somewhere taught her how to face grief and live with it.”

18. 50 ways to be ridiculously generous and feel ridiculously good from Alexandra Franzen.

19. 30 Things I’ve Learned from 30 Years of Teaching Yoga.

20. Gregory Euclide Explores the Anthropocene in Verdant Mixed-Media Collages.

21. And finally, these random things I saved to my phone this week.