1. The Roots of Things from Jami Attenberg. In related news, For this poet, working on her garden is exploring history, race and sustainability, (“Poet Camille Dungy made her lawn into an eco-friendly pollinator’s paradise of native plants. Her memoir links diversifying the landscape and diversifying the voices who write about the natural world”), and Blooming How She Must: A Profile of Camille T. Dungy, and Soil Book Review, (“In her radical and vibrant memoir, Camille Dungy plants poems next to critical analysis next to environmental history next to African American history”).

2. The PEN Ten, PEN America’s weekly interview series. 10 questions asked of one writer a week. “PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide. We champion the freedom to write, recognizing the power of the word to transform the world. Our mission is to unite writers and their allies to celebrate creative expression and defend the liberties that make it possible.”

3. Let Your Heart Be Broken. “We spend our lives trying to anchor our transience in some illusion of permanence and stability. We lay plans, we make vows, we backbone the flow of uncertainty with habits and routines that lull us with the comforting dream of predictability and control, only to find ourselves again and again bent at the knees with surrender to forces and events vastly larger than us. In those moments, kneeling in a pool of the unknown, the heart breaks open and allows life — life itself, not the simulacrum of life that comes from control — to rush in.”

4. What Thieves Are Not Interested In from Robert Jones, Jr.

5. Why the Bud Light boycott represents a new phase in anti-brand protests. “The boycott has quickly morphed into a promotional event for ‘anti-woke’ brands.”

6. Kindergarten children dropped seeds in the crack of the sidewalk to see what would happen.

7. The One You Feed | Practical Wisdom for a Better Life: How to Embrace Life’s Paradoxes with Rosemerry Wahtola-Trommer. (podcast)

8. The Best Things I’ve Done to Cope With Anxiety.

9. 7 Simple Ways to Be Kinder to Yourself.

10. Creating a Culture of Slow: 8 Ways to Transform the Pace of your Home.

11. Study Tests the Validity of Weight Loss Research Claims from Ragen Chastain. 

12. Social Media Report Card: Time To ReSkeet the Blooski, Apparently? from Chuck Wendig on Terrible Minds.

13. An Unwitting Consumer Finds Himself Out of His Depth in the Stop-Motion Animation ‘Five Cents’.

14. The Banana Diaries: Easy Vegan Recipes.

15. Love the child you have from Jena Schwartz.

16. Creative Peptalk 407 – Hit Creative Block Waiting for All The Answers? Listen to This Chat with Poet Maggie Smith. (podcast) “In this episode we will explore a different way to approach creative work, that by its very nature allows for creating in the space where yourself still confused and Maggie also delivers a creative career prompt at the end that is very useful for finding new opportunities to do more of what you do best!”

17. How to Have the Fat Talk. “Virginia Sole-Smith on the War on Juice, How Puberty Got So Anti-Fat, and Parental Terror.”

18. How to Be a Mindful Bodhisattva on Lion’s Roar. “Mindfulness is more than just a meditation practice. Mindfulness is life, and life is love. That’s why it’s the whole path of the bodhisattva, says Zen teacher Norman Fischer.”

19. The truth of where you are now.

20. Colorado governor signs 4 gun control bills.

21. “Swedish Death Cleaning” comes to life in new series. What is it?

22. Comedian Matt Rife on Not Being Hot and Wearing Socks With Flip-Flops. “The popular performer opens up about his international tour, stage style, biggest insecurities, and more.”

23. No, Really, I’m Awful. “In John Mulaney’s new Netflix special, Baby J, the comedian brilliantly destroys his likable persona.”

24. My Husband Asked for a Divorce After His Dementia Diagnosis.

25. Ceramic ‘Curiosity Clouds’ by Manifesto Celebrate the Natural World in Functional Organic Forms.

26. Absolutely stunning dresses and corsets inspired by butterfly wings, designed by Bibian Blue.

27. Proof of Life, a new album from Joy Oladokun. In related news, Fuse, the new album from Everything But The Girl.

1. 8 Things I’ve Learnt About Going Gently from Satya Robyn. “My recipe for a softer life in a harsh world.”

2. Please Help Patrick Post-Bone Marrow Transplant. He’s still fighting and still needs support.

3. On Morning Pages from Summer Brennan. “The value and pitfalls of a daily writing practice.”

4. Mental Health Tip From My Dog from Andrea Gibson. “How to not add more pain to our pain.”

5. Learning to Embrace Goodbye from Frederick Joseph. “However the end comes, it is always within our grasp to say the best goodbye by weaving the essence of what is gone into the fabric of who we are and what will be.”

6. Why Introverts Need Alone Time to Be Creative.

7. Dani Shapiro: Dharma & Devotion on Lion’s Roar. “Dani Shapiro talks about being raised Orthodox Jewish, uncovering a decades-old family secret, and writing her new novel — her most spiritual work yet.”

8. Wisdom from Omkari Williams: “We cannot possibly address, or even keep track of, all of these issues. So what do we do? I think that what we do is we narrow our focus and get micro. It’s what I teach in my workshops and write about in my book. In a time when we are being confronted by so many things the best thing that we can do is focus. Pick one or two things we’re going to work on and dive deep. Put our attention there and make the difference that we can in that arena.

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We are living in complicated times and it can be so tempting to just turn away from all that is happening. Our job, as citizens of this planet, is to make a positive difference. It doesn’t have to be a huge difference, this isn’t a competition, it just needs to be the difference we can make. That’s the price we pay for our being here, on this planet, at this moment. We do what we can, in the way that we can, for as long as we can.”

9. Is There Life After Influencing? on The New York Times. “The internet personality Lee From America wanted to see what life was like as plain old Lee Tilghman. She’s not alone. But leaving behind lucrative brand partnerships and high follower counts is harder than it looks.”

10. Should You Pay For Twitter’s New Blue Check? from Chuck Wendig on Terrible Minds.

11. Introduction to The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape by Ross Gay.

12. Why You Shouldn’t Put Your Kids On Diets – Full Interview from Ragen Chastain.

13. David Rakoff in “This American Life: The Invisible Made Visible.” (video)

14. Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus. (podcast) “Julia Louis-Dreyfus wants to know why the hell we don’t hear more from older women, so she’s sitting down with Jane Fonda, Carol Burnett, Amy Tan, Diane von Furstenberg, Isabel Allende and Fran Lebowitz (and more!) to get schooled in how to live a full and meaningful life. Join the Emmy award winning-est actress of all time on her first-ever podcast, where each week she has funny, touching, personal conversations with unforgettable women who are always WISER THAN ME.”

15. Living for dinnertime from Austin Kleon.

16. A Path to Well-Being: Embrace Silence for Stronger Mindfulness. “Understanding how to exist with our own thoughts can provide powerful health benefits.”

17. Recipe I want to try: Chicken Pot Pie Soup. My husband makes a version of this that we call “deconstructed chicken pot pie.” Also, I need these oatmeal cookies.

18. Poet Rosemerry Trommer hits bestseller lists.

19. Tucker Carlson departs Fox News following network’s $787 million settlement.

20. Murphy the eagle steps in as stepdad. (video) On CBS Sunday Morning, “At World Bird Sanctuary in Valley Park, Mo., the plight of Murphy, a bald eagle who was reduced to incubating a rock, aroused social media sympathy, until an orphaned eaglet was brought to the sanctuary for care, and the two have hit it off. Jane Pauley reports.”

21. Formidable wood-carved sculptures of wildlife animals in miniature by Tomohiro Suzuki.

22. therxckstxr on Instagram. The most hilarious voice over animal videos on the internet.

23. 8 Books for Anyone Curious About Meditation on The New York Times. “We asked experts — mindfulness teachers, spiritual leaders, and scientists — for their favorite beginner-friendly titles.”

24. Amazingly intricate and colorful vertical tattoos by Jing.

25. The intricate figurative art carved out of feathers by Chris Maynard.

26. ‘Good Trouble Quilts’: Civil Rights Memorial Center exhibit celebrates John Lewis.

27. U.S. completes old-growth forest inventory, plans to protect woodlands.

28. 5 Expert Tips to Manage Burnout and Find Queer Joy. “Spiritual and mental health experts explain why queer people are burnt out, and what we can do about it.”

29. How stress can increase your biological age and how to reverse it.

30. What a U.S. Poet Laureate Wants to Pass Down on The New York Times Style Magazine. “Joy Harjo’s work is rooted in the Native community, a respect that’s shared by the poet and writer Layli Long Soldier.”

32. How to Break Up with Your Therapist. “Ending any relationship is hard, let alone one with a therapist. Queer mental health experts explain how to know when it’s time.”

33. Return of the romcom: the genre is thriving again – but with new values. “For a dose of hope in hard times, romcoms still do the trick. Just don’t expect to see a remake of Pretty Woman any time soon.”

34. How Rural America Steals Girls’ Futures on The Atlantic.

35. Wellmania | Official Trailer | Netflix (video). Just finished watching this and LOVED it. If you liked Fleabag, Somebody Somewhere, You’re The Worst, or I’m Sorry, you’ll probably like this too.

36. 5 things to remember when a friendship ends.

37. Everything But the Girl: Fuse review – still staking out pop’s frontier after 40 years. “Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt have absorbed the revolutions in dance and electronic music since their previous album in 1999, and shaped them into melancholic, finely detailed stories.”

38. Gastro Doctors Share The 1 Food They Never (Or Rarely) Eat. “The experts on gas, bloating, colon cancer and other digestive issues share what they avoid themselves.”

39. Netflix To Bring Down the Curtain on Its DVD-by-Mail Service.

40. My Transplanted Heart and I Will Die Soon on The New York Times.

41. How Do You Create a Container Garden? Start Here. on The New York Times. “From the choice and arrangement of your pots to how you think about what goes in them, one garden designer has some advice for you.”

42. Hobart quilter Katherine Jones wins national, international awards for two-year creation.

43. In a Daily Sewing Project, Karen Turner Stitches a Visual Diary in Vividly Textured Designs.

44. Vivid Hues and Intricate Embroidery Bring Yumi Okita’s Remarkably Tactile Moths to Life.