1. Wisdom from James Baldwin, “We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.”

2. Speak Up: Responding to Everyday Bigotry. A really great resource, a long list of answers to “what can I do?”

3. How to Make Your Congressman Listen to You. “A series of viral tweets by former Congressional staff member Emily Ellsworth offered advice on how to get your representative to take notice and hear you out.”

4. This “Late Night” Writer Just Said What Most Black People In America Are Thinking Right Now. In related news, On “Woke” White People Advertising their Shock that Racism just won a Presidency, and This is what happens now.

5. Hundreds Of Students Walked A Girl To Class After She Was Allegedly Called The N-Word. Would that the response everywhere be this, may every person harassed have someone who steps in, and a mass of people surrounding them with love after. Please, please, if something like this happens to you, tell us so we can walk you to class.

6. Better Things: Pamela Adlon on why the season finale was her favorite episode. And, Donald Glover Challenges Stereotypes About Rappers In Atlanta. Both Better Things and Atlanta ended recently, and it’s bittersweet — I’m so happy they are so good, so sad there are no new episodes for awhile.

7. 2 Million Photos In 8 Years Or What It’s Like To Be Obama’s Photographer. I’m not crying, you’re crying… *sniff*

8. Concrete Suggestions in Preparation for January 2017’s change in American government, a Google doc. “This list is a living document compiled and moderated by Kara Hurvitz, an attorney and advocate based out of Boston. It has received contributions from attorneys, other professionals, and lay people all over the country.”

9. Find Your Elected Officials. A really great resource. “Here you can find your Elected Officials, how to contact them, bills they’ve introduced, committees they serve on, and political contributions they’ve received.”

10. Fill my basket. “This generous organization pays for strangers’ groceries and is giving back one cart at a time.”

11. People Express Post-Election Feelings On Subway Wall. “This Post-it wall is letting people express their feelings about the election while spreading love and positivity.”

12. Don’t Panic. “I personally believe it will, that this will be remembered as the dying last gasp of the worst part of America, one final stand against the bigotry and ignorance that has plagued us since the day we decided to build this nation on the backs of slaves. But it won’t happen on its own. Nothing good ever does. Some of you wake up every day feeling like you have no purpose in life, and motherfucker, have I got news for you! The future is waiting to see what we do next. Let’s get to it.”

13. A poem from Warsan Shire,

later that night
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?
it answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere.

14. Trump supporters, I love you. Seriously.TV with Dylan Marron.

15. A comic and message from Sarah’s Scribbles on the election results.

16. A Loving Kindness Meditation for America, with Susan Piver and Lodro Rinzler.

17. More wisdom from Susan Piver, On Fear, Fearlessness, and the US Presidential Election: One Buddhist’s Perspective, and I want a viable third party and I want it today, and Don’t Bite the Hook: Five Things to Remember Post-Election.

18. A poem from Ellen Bass,

to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you’ve held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs,
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.

19. Stay, wisdom from Rachel Cole, which I already shared once, but I want to make sure you didn’t miss it.

20. Wisdom from Adam J. Kurtz,

21. The African-American Suffragists History Forgot. In related news, These Black Women Also Deserve A Visit To Their Graves On Election Day.

22. Pets Interrupting Yoga. I’ve seen this before, probably shared it before, but it always makes me giggle.

23. A bit of relief on this insane election day from Jamie Greenwood, written before we knew the results.

This election has brought so much hate, rage and vitriol to the surface that, no matter who is elected, we will still be left with plenty of toxic national sludge to wade through and clean up. Which, as I see it, is actually a good thing. It’s a good thing we’re being asked to address and face issues that have long been festering under the surface and I believe, if we do this right, we can forever change how America treats all its citizens and how we citizens treat each other.

24. Artist Leaves Funny Signs Around City For People To Find.

25. “If your generation votes to build a wall, I just want you to know my generation will be strong enough to tear it down.”

26. This post from Elizabeth Gilbert made me giggle,

27. We’re not going to change the world. You are. “Maybe they voted for something they perceived was in their self-interest, but let’s see how that turns out. You think a billionaire who stiffs his employees and doesn’t pay taxes cares about working people?”

28. Acceptance. Yes, everything about this.

29. Reclaiming My Power From White Women. “I believe that white supremacy is the attempt to love oneself through the subjugation of others.” Yup, chew on that.

30. No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear by Toni Morrison. “I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge — even wisdom. Like art.”

31. For writers after the American election. “In my attention lives my capacity for love and awe. My attention enables my adoration for nature, animals, and people. Without attention, my heart can’t be open.”

32. Wisdom from Seth Godin, Empathy is a bridge, and Hang in there, and Rolling up our sleeves, and Resilience.

33. Should You Wear a Safety Pin? In related news, So You Want to Wear a Safety Pin and Questioning Safety Pin Solidarity Revealed Why I Can’t Trust White People.

34. I’ve Been Fat And I’ve Been Skinny. Here’s What I’ve Learned About That.

35. The Show And Fuel Empathy (SAFE) Project, a great offering from Jena Schwartz.

36. 11/30 Poems in November: Just the Milk from Jena Schwartz. *sniffle* Also from Jena, When Writing Is Your One Small Thing.

37. Trying is always worth it from Alexandra Franzen.

38. The Pendulum Swings Both Ways.

39. Now what? A recent newsletter from Laura Simms with some really great tips, “As a caring person, what can you do today, this week, and this year to help others?”

40. Mourn, Then Get Mad, Then Get Busy, a really, really great list from Chuck Wendig.

41. The World Needs YOU Now. (Elections are over; Now What?) from Kute Blackson. “Donald Trump is a great opportunity to live your compassion and to put spirituality into practice.”

42. Forget “Why?”, it’s time to get to work. Another great list of what to do now.

43. Send a Friend a Love Letter.

44. The photographer behind this iconic #NoDAPL image explains why he’s fighting with Standing Rock.

45. ‘Not All White People’ and Derailing Conversations.

Do not insist that your effort to treat other people with dignity and respect–which really is the bare minimum of what’s expected from decent human beings–is so remarkable that you need to interrupt other people’s conversations to demand praise. Everyone already knows that ‘not all white people are like that.’ But if you’re barging into conversations to make them about you, chances are pretty good that you’re exactly like that.

46. We Have To Create A Culture That Won’t Vote For Trump.

47. Do you live in a bubble? A quiz.

48. What to Do If You See Islamophobic Harassment. This works with other forms of harassment too.

49. Leslie Knope Writes Letter to America Following Donald Trump’s Victory.

50. With a Stroke of His Pen President Obama Permanently Protects Planned Parenthood.

1. Staying Alive: Mary Oliver on How Books Saved Her Life and Why the Passion for Work Is the Greatest Antidote to Pain. “I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.”

2. Guilt-Free Diet. “The cake won’t be gluten-free or grain-free, but it will be guilt-free, because I am choosing for it to be so. This indulgence will come free of taxes and punishments. It will be made by my hands and eaten by our mouths. This alone, is magic.”

3. 16 Books You Should Read This November.

4. Sabrina Benaim reading “Explaining My Depression to My Mother” on Button Poetry. Word.

5. Good stuff from Chuck Wendig: Dearest Deplorables (on Trump) and NaNoWriMo Pep Talk: The Pure Fucking Joy Of Getting It All Wrong (on writing).

6. So much good stuff from Lion’s Roar: 5 Reasons to Meditate, and Why We Meditate, and True Stories About Sitting Meditation, and Trust in Your Goodness, and A visit to MNDFL, NYC’s new, high-profile meditation space. The November 2016 issue is really helping me get through this election season too, as it “features Buddhist wisdom that offers hope and healing for the troubled times our world is experiencing.”

7. Savor with Rachel Cole, one of my favorite things about the holiday season.

8. The Holiday Decluttering Guide to make room for more Comfort and Joy from Courtney Carver, another great resource for making it gently and sanely through the holiday season.

9. You Don’t Outgrow the Effects of an Alcoholic Parent. I don’t like the title of this so much because it implies that these are struggles you are stuck with. And yet, with effort, awareness, practice, study, support, and therapy, any childhood legacy is workable. In fact, it seems like that’s part of the deal being human — working through whatever lingers from your childhood experience, letting go of what no longer serves you, and becoming a healthy, wise, compassionate adult.

10. 10 Things I’ve Learned About Gaslighting As An Abuse Tactic.

11. #NoDAPL: Updates, resources, and reflections. In related news, Meet The Young People Standing Up Against The Dakota Access Pipeline, and Keeping It in the Ground, and United Nations Comes to Standing Rock, and Stand With Us, and The Dakota Access Pipeline: A Legal Environmental Justice Perspective, and Native American Woman Speaks Out About DAPL Arrest, and Love & Hugs for Standing Rock #NoDAPL, and “We’re Not Protesters, We Are Land Protectors,” and a new Where the Heck is Matt? video, which he captions this way,

In a few days, when this is all over, can we have a big conversation about empathy, what it means, why it’s important, and how to tell when someone is incapable of feeling it? Can we also talk about how those folks don’t make very good leaders and how we can make sure this never ever happens again? Okay, thanks.

12. What Is Black America To Do When The Obamas Leave Us?

13. Eventually, You Write Your Own Story. When our heroes become real people.

14. Every Company Should Offer Mental Health Days. Word. Although, I’ve always said that paid sick days can be used for “I’m sick of this shit” days.

15. 15 Simple Ways to Spread Happiness and Kindness Around You.

16. At Last, a Black History Museum. I know I’m a nerd because right now my dream vacation would be two months off to travel around the US and see all the amazing museums we have.

17. She Lives In The Oldest Mall In America After 48 Abandoned Shops Are Transformed Into Homes. I love these projects so much more than the ones where they demolish a whole neighborhood of old houses to build a mall, or more dorms or another parking lot on a university campus.

18. 4/30 Poems in November: No from Jena Schwartz. This one is worth memorizing.

19. Death to the Stock Photo, a really cool project for writers and photographers.

20. If Donald Trump wins on Tuesday, I don’t know what I’m more scared of, a list.

21. Why I work remotely (hint: it has nothing to do with productivity).

22. The Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin, “The literary mainstream once relegated her work to the margins. Then she transformed the mainstream.”

23. No need to reply. Such a great idea.

24. Wisdom from Jiddu Krishnamurti, “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

25. ‘Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party’: TV’s Oddest Couple Talk Fried Chicken, Fat Doobies and Funyuns. Here’s a trailer for the show.

26. Food Psych #76: Healthy Eating vs. Competent Eating with Dana Sturtevant, a podcast about intuitive eating, body image, eating disorder recovery, and Health at Every Size®.

27. The Way to Finding Powerful Human Connection from Zen Habits.

28. The Messy Truth, a new show from Van Jones. He visited people who are voting for Trump and had a conversation with them, even though he’s “Left, to the other side of Pluto.”

29. Therapists Say This Election Is Traumatizing Women. No kidding. In related news, ‘I Love You, But…’: What Your Trump Vote Tells My Family, and Letter to My Future President.

30. Words for the Year, a site where they post “one poem, quote or art selection each day.”

31. From Medium to Book Deal in 12 Months. It’s the dream, isn’t it? I’m just over here writing away and someone sends a message, “hey, saw what you were doing — wanna write a book?” It can happen.

32. Review: ‘13TH,’ the Journey From Shackles to Prison Bars. I watched this finally yesterday. So good, “a powerful cinematic call to conscience.” With the elections in just a few days, the last 20 minutes were so hard to watch, but that’s what the best documentaries do: they make you uncomfortable.

33. How To Hygge (Or: 29 Ways To Actually Enjoy Winter).

34. Neighbours come together to stand against homophobia. “When a couple has their rainbow flag stolen and their house egged, this neighbourhood came together and showed homophobia isn’t welcome in their street!”

35. Recipes I want to try: Cinnamon Roll Apple Pie, and Caramel Apple Upside-Down Cake, and One-Pan Autumn Chicken & Veggie Bake, and Baked Fruit & Veggie Chips 4 Ways.

36. Does ‘Decoded’ Hate White People? “Acknowledging racism doesn’t mean that you hate white people: hosted by Franchesca “Chescaleigh” Ramsey.”

37. We’re all in this together. *sob*

38. The Big Quiet Meditation Flash Mob At World Trade Center. “Hundreds of people formed a flashmob to sit quietly and meditate.” This is so great.

39. Unboxing White Feminism.

40. Unlikely friendship. “The touching friendship between this 4-year-old girl and an 82-year-old man teaches us that age is just a number.”

41. The best thing to say to someone going through a hard time.

42. Loving Kindness Meditation for the United States of America with Susan Piver and Lodro Rinzler, November 9, 2016 12:00 PM EST. In related news, Love in the Time of Crankiness, Part One and Part Two.

43. If Congress was your co-worker.

44. Weight Watchers Is Back With New Nonsense.

More and more people are realizing that neither our body size nor our health are completely within our control, that we can love the bodies we have, and choose how/if we focus on our wellbeing. More and more people are realizing that diets don’t work and that we can create and pursue health and wellness goals that don’t include trying to manipulate our body size — or consider that to be a goal worth celebrating, or even talking about.

45. Papercuts: A Party Game for the Rude and Well-Read on Kickstarter.

46. This Guy Gets Paid to Cuddle Strangers.

47. ‘I just wanted to show a sign.’ Self-proclaimed Republican anti-Trump protester, Austyn Crites, relives the violent attack he suffered at Trump’s Nevada rally. In related news, End this misogynistic horror show. Put Hillary Clinton in the White House by Barbara Kingsolver, and Stopping Donald Trump could be essential to the well-being of many Americans, including my family and me — and this is not a game, and if that doesn’t convince you, this song from Jenifer Lewis — Get Your Ass Out and Vote. And, you might not know this about me, but I love a good flash mob, Official “Pantsuit Power” Flash Mob for Hillary.

48. This abandoned little hippo was so sad — until he made a new best friend. These two are SO cute.

49. Iron and Wine – Wild Horses. This. I can’t even…