1. Funny tweets: #crappyholidays, 10+ Of The Best Parenting Tweets Of 2016, The 50 Funniest Tweets From Women In 2016, and an entire website devoted to sharing the funniest tweets, Hall of Tweets.

2. In New York, Activists Prepare Bystanders To Take Action Against Harassment. “If you were to witness a bias-based attack or a hate crime, how would you respond?”

3. “Wild Geese” written and read by Mary Oliver. Video created by Live Learn Evolve in partnership with We Are Wildness.

4. 30 Of The Most Important Articles By People Of Color In 2016. Required reading.

5. Can we talk about ACTUAL resistance now?, a Facebook live video from Ijeoma Oluo.

6. Older Women’s Housing Project. “As life expectancy increases, the question of where and how we live in our old age is becoming more and more important. One group of women in London have come up with a novel solution: they’ve created their own co-housing project. The idea is that they will support each other to combat loneliness, ill health and all the other challenges that come with old age. Now after years of delays, they’ve finally moved into their new home.”

7. An orchard made from the principles of sacred geometry in Costa Rica.

8. Vertical gardens are both beautiful and healthful.

9. White People: an Explainer. “Whiteness – and the privilege it carries with it – is a powerful thing. And it’s completely made up.”

10. People Are Posting Pics Of Their Animals Before & After Being Called A Good Boy.

11. 5 Reasons to Write from Nan Seymour, “Reflections upon returning from Deena Metzger’s writing workshop.”

12. A man records himself talking in his sleep, to hilarious and alarming results.

13. 391-Year-Old Bonsai Tree Planted In 1625 Has Survived Hiroshima And Keeps On Growing.

14. Healing from Toxic Whiteness, “an online training program for white people committed to racial justice.”

15. 41 Epic Sites With Breathtaking Stock Photos You Can Use For Free, a great resource list.

16. Mindfully Free of Wanting People to Be a Certain Way from Zen Habits. In related news, 5 Tips For When You Have Too Much to Do.

17. Advice from Pema Chödrön, “Constantly apply cheerfulness, if for no other reason than because you are on this spiritual path. Have a sense of gratitude to everything, even difficult emotions, because of their potential to wake you up.”

18. The 100 Day Promise: Self-Compassion with Sandi Amorim. “The 100 Day Promise is a practice that guides you through the process of change in an in-depth and soulful way.”

19. Empathy isn’t a favor I owe white Trump voters. It has to go both ways. “I’m not saying that everybody who voted for the former online steak salesman is a racist or a sexist or an Islamophobe. That argument isn’t even required to explain things. All we need to acknowledge is that by their votes they showed us they were okay with racism and sexism and Islamophobia. They valued their attachment to a bygone economic era over their attachment to the stated ideals of this nation when it comes to inclusion and equal protection under the law.”

20. How Writers Are Getting Back to Work, “Celeste Ng, Sara Novic, Morgan Jerkins and others on How Catastrophe Affects Daily Practice.”

21. How do you pursue a writing career in Trump’s America without hating yourself?

22. 31 Days of Devotion is Back! with Adreanna Limbach, “a FREE online series that brings daily meditation + contemplative practices right into your inbox, 7 days a week for the entire month of January.”

23. Overwhelm and Antidotes on Rita’s Notebook.

24. NPD – A guide to learning to deal with narcissistic personality disorder.

25. 10+ Of The Funniest Christmas Gifts That People Got This Year.

1. Curvy Yoga: Love Yourself & Your Body a Little More Each Day. Both yoga and body acceptance have made such a big difference in my own life. So I couldn’t be more excited that my friend Anna Guest-Jelley has a book coming out on just this topic! Join me in pre-ordering Curvy Yoga: Love Yourself & Your Body a Little More Each Day (and get some great pre-order bonuses while you’re at it)!

2. 43 Things I’ve Learned in 43 Years, a list from Meg Worden. I don’t agree with every item on this list, (for example: “16. Indian food is better than all other food.” I like Indian food too, but “better than all other food”?) but there are some really good things here — like, “Sociopathy and narcissism are the real zombie apocalypse. Skills to deal with/avoid these personality disorders are paramount to survival in the modern world.” Word.

3. The Key Is Always Hope from Chuck Wendig on Terrible Minds.

The thing we think is the End of the World isn’t that, after all. It’s the end of something — or at least, a troublesome pause. But the Apocalypses we expect and predict are rarely those. They are transformative. They are terrible. But they rarely end everything. They often form new beginnings, terrible and transformative as they are…Things won’t be fine. Things might get really, really bad. But we can survive them. And we have a chance to come out better than we were before. That is the key.

4. Finding Purpose in Uncertain Times from Laura Simms.

5. 16 Overall Favorite Books of 2016 on Brain Pickings, “From loneliness to love to black holes, by way of Neil Gaiman, Annie Dillard, and Mary Oliver.”

6. Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda. “Former congressional staffers reveal best practices for making Congress listen.”

7. White Women and U.S. Slavery: Then and Now.

8. How To Create Art And Make Cool Stuff In A Time Of Trouble a great list from from Chuck Wendig on Terrible Minds.

9. 4 questions to ease you out of 2016 (and get you feeling hopeful for the year to come) from Jamie Greenwood.

10. No. My Magical Word for 2017 from the brilliant and brave Laurie Wagner.

11. “You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep others warm,” (unknown). Whoa. I needed to see this right now.

12. We’re heading into dark times. This is how to be your own light in the Age of Trump.

My heart breaks for the United States of America. It breaks for those who think they are my enemies as much as it does for my friends. You still have your freedom, so use it. There are many groups organizing for both resistance and subsistence, but we are heading into dark times, and you need to be your own light. Do not accept brutality and cruelty as normal even if it is sanctioned. Protect the vulnerable and encourage the afraid. If you are brave, stand up for others. If you cannot be brave – and it is often hard to be brave – be kind.

13. 10+ Hilariously Creative Snowmen That Would Make Calvin And Hobbes Proud.

14. Zoologist uses cheetah as a pillow. Sleeping with Sam, #same

15. Support the White Helmets. “Every day in Syria, volunteer rescue workers from the White Helmets rush to the scenes of bombings to pull people out from under the rubble and carry them to safety. Their courageous and selfless work has given hope to millions of civilians.” In related news, Syria: The story of the conflict, “eight steps to understanding the Syrian conflict.” And this, How Can I Help People In Aleppo? 10 Charities Working To Provide Food, Shelter, Medicine And Education To Syrians and this 7 real things you can do right now about the catastrophe in Aleppo.

16. Pipeline spills 176,000 gallons of crude into creek about 150 miles from Dakota Access protest camp. No more pipelines. Water, not oil.

17. 20 Facts About Living in Poverty That Rich People Never Have to Think About from Everyday Feminism.

18. This Is Your Stressed-Out Brain On Scarcity.

19. Frightened by Donald Trump? You don’t know the half of it. “You cannot confront a power until you know what it is. Our first task in this struggle is to understand what we face. Only then can we work out what to do.”

20. Los Angeles Times publishes letters in defense of internment. Blergh.