1. If you’ve ever wanted to take a break from the internet, try these tips. “If you ever feel nostalgic for the pre-internet era (or wonder what it was like), Pamela Paul, author of 100 Things We’ve Lost To The Internet, reveals a few ways you can reconnect with an analog way of life.”

2. How to overcome FOMO. “Worrying about whether we’re missing out on new experiences, content, trends and even investments can make us feel like we’re falling behind. But we can actually overcome that feeling and be present with what we have. Here’s why we experience FOMO in the first place, how to know when that feeling is serving us and how to move past it when it gets in the way.”

3. Sculpt The World on Instagram. “Artist Jon Foreman, Land Art / Sculpture based in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK.” In related news, Land artist Jon Foreman, whose canvas is a beach (video), “Artist Jon Foreman finds inspiration in nature and a receding tide, using rocks that he finds, or raked sand, to turn the beaches of Wales into spectacular designs that are destined to be washed away. Correspondent Seth Doane reports on landscape art that is stunning – and fleeting,” and Artist creates stunning land art masterpieces by arranging stones in hypnotic patterns.

4. White Antiracist History; White Antiracist Mobilization: The Vision Statement for the White Antiracist Ancestry Project. “The premise of the White Antiracist Ancestry Project is simple: it will be easier for us to mobilize masses of White people for racial justice if they have powerful examples of White antiracism to learn from and be inspired by.”

5. The Buffalo shooting shuttered Tops and left a food desert. Locals are stepping in. In related news, Community Resource Document in Response to Tragedy at Tops on Jefferson Ave in Buffalo, NY, and Buffalo shooting victims: ‘Hero’ guard and a teacher who was a ‘pillar of the community’ are among 10 killed.

6. 18 Most Bizarre Mushroom And Fungi Species In The World. In related news, Wonderful photos of Australian fungi by Steve Axford.

7. Trusting our Deepest Intuition in a Crisis from Jeff Foster on Facebook. “Let your own deepest inner wisdom be your guide. And you shall gather around you wise friends and healers, kind and skilled experts, and those who truly have your best interests at heart.”

8. Blue Atlas by Steven Church. A beautiful short piece about a tree (but so much more).

9. Hyperrealistic Marine Life Portraits Highlight the Ocean’s Incredible Biodiversity.

10. Living Near Racists Can Literally Make You Sick. “New research links living in more racist communities to bad health outcomes for everyone — including white people.”

11. ‘S.N.L.’ Says Goodbye to Multiple Cast Members on The New York Times.

12. David Sedaris on the death of his father: ‘I don’t think the coffin could have been any uglier’.

13. Scientists discover an ancient forest inside a giant sinkhole in China.

14. 20 of the coolest holiday cabins in Europe. “From Scandinavian rustic-luxe to floating eco-cabins in the south of France, we pick cosy and stylish hideaways in forests and lakeland.”

15. 22 Ways To Simplify Your Life from Courtney Carver on Be More With Less.

16. Where is ‘Harry’s House’ anyway? Harry Styles explains.

17. Bird-watcher wrongfully accused in Central Park video gets a bird-watching TV show.

18. Restaurant owner taps baby formula stash — gives it away for free. Do what you can with what you have where you are.

19. Karine Jean-Pierre’s Unlikely Rise to the White House Lectern on The New York Times. “The first Black and first openly gay press secretary was raised in an immigrant family with ‘so many secrets.’ Now she occupies one of the most scrutinized jobs in American politics.”

20. There Is Enough Food, Just Not Enough Food Access. “Community fridge networks across the country are an important start—and symbol—in the work to make sure everyone has enough to eat.”

21. Selma Blair on living with MS: ‘My doctors urged me not to go public. They worried I wouldn’t get work’. “In an extract from her new memoir, the actor remembers the moment she found out she had multiple sclerosis – and finally understanding why her body had been betraying her for years.”

22. What Do Most Mass Shooters Have in Common? They Bought Their Guns Legally. on The New York Times. “From 1966 to 2019, 77 percent of mass shooters obtained the weapons they used in their crimes through legal purchases, according to a comprehensive survey of law enforcement data, academic papers and news accounts compiled by the National Institute of Justice, the research wing of the Justice Department.”

23. Announcing the winner of the 2022 Tiny Desk Contest. 

24. Photographer digitizes hundreds of never-seen images of Inuit communities. In related news, Through a Lens, Documenting Indigenous Culture: Matika Wilbur is attempting to photograph every federally recognized tribe in the U.S.

25. Many know how George Floyd died. A new biography reveals how he lived.

26. How to build a culture of support so leaders and movements can thrive. “Self-sacrifice and isolation are draining movements of powerful and passionate leaders. Personal support teams can help.” In related news, from Andrea Gibson, Mental Health Tips For Activists And How to Not Burn Out.

27. ‘Each little thing in my life is precious’: Ken Watanabe on cancer, childhood and Hollywood cliches. “His role in The Last Samurai changed Hollywood’s attitude to Asian characters overnight – but illness very nearly ended his career. He discusses recovery, regret and yakuza drama Tokyo Vice.”

28. The Pandemic Still Isn’t Over. So What Now? on The New York Times.

29. Yuna, R&B’s Malaysian Star, Is Back With Y5, A Collection of 5 Eps Set To Be Released Throughout The Year.

30. ‘Every guy was hitting on me’: actor Rosie Perez on Botox, boxing – and the casting couch. “Spike Lee championed her, but she still had to battle misogyny and racism to make it to the top. Now, more in demand than ever, she talks about her trailblazing career.”

31. This Woman Shared Her Awful Experience Getting Body Shamed And Judged At A Yoga Studio And Thousands Of People Are Sharing Similar Experiences. In related news, Jordan Peterson quits Twitter after calling plus-size model Yumi Nu’s SI Swimsuit cover ‘not beautiful’, and No Health, No Care: The Big Fat Loophole in the Hippocratic Oath (“Medical fatphobia isn’t the result of providers not knowing some special cheat codes for working with fat patients. Providers didn’t all miss the day in medical school where students were taught how not to be cruel to fat people. Fatphobia is medicine’s status quo”), and When I Stopped Apologizing for My Fatness, I Started to Heal.

32. [The First] All-Black Team of Climbers Successfully Summits Mount Everest.

33. A Look Inside Tokyo’s Smallest Luxury Apartment.

34. A mass mobilization of democracy is the only way to stop white supremacy. In related news Why do white supremacists want to kill Black people?: What are the roots of this violence and how do we fight it?

35. The air conditioning paradox. “How do we cool people without heating up the planet?”

36. A Man Knocked Down His Basement Wall, Discovering Ancient Underground City That Housed 20,000 People.

37. Black shelter animals weren’t getting adopted. A photographer had an idea: glam shots. I always choose the black dog if there is one.

38. One Good Thing: Watching the cherry blossoms in the end times. “The Japanese tradition of hanami is the highlight of every spring.”

39. Good stuff from Seth Godin: Possibility is fragile and The smallest viable audience.

40. The Normalization of “Working Through Covid”. “We have worked through so much these last two years — intermittent or nonexistent childcare, abject terror, a contested election, an attempted coup, ongoing climate catastrophes that have made it dangerous to go outside, ongoing and targeted racial violence — that somehow working through fatigue, or brain fog, or what might initially feel like a mildly elevated cold feels….normal? Like the right thing to do? And that taking time off when so many others don’t have the ability to do so is somehow insulting? And I mean what else are you going to do?

But I am here to say — to myself as much as any of you faced with this decision — that this is line of thinking is morally bankrupt. It has productivity culture brainworms. It is evidence of the most toxic scarcity mindset, and one of the most pernicious side-effects of the spread of ‘flexible’ work. And if you’re reading these sentences and immediately coming up with justifications for why you worked or would work through Covid, it’s worth thinking about why.”

41. See No Stranger: Others, Opponents, Ourselves, “the revolutionary love learning hub.”

42. #32. Paper bag (a poem recommendation): On ordinariness and grocery stores. 

43. When the mind’s eye is blind from Austin Kleon. My husband has this. Once he figured it out, it explained so much.

44. Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn Are all Stress Responses—Here’s What Psychologists Say Each Means.

45. Fold an Elaborate Origami Menagerie with DIY Instructions from Jo Nakashima.

46. Delicate porcelain sculptures of cross-cut pods encased with seeds and other vegetables by Sally Kent.

47. Wildflowers, Trees, and Quaint Cabins Spring From Su Blackwell’s Book Sculptures.

48. What Do Writing a Novel and Tending a Garden Have in Common?

49. We need a hope machine. Anyone know how to build one? “Don’t kick yourself for feeling lousy. You have every right to feel that way. But let me say something else as clearly as I can. I’ve been at this fight a very long time, and right now I find lots of reasons for hope. Ten, to be exact.”

50. Garments of Grass and Flowers by Jeanne Simmons Fuse Bodies to the Landscape.

51. How Movement Can Help Introverts ‘Cure’ Overthinking. “Exercising can help ‘cure’ your overthinking mind by getting you to focus on something external vs. internal.”

52. These 90-Year-Old Runners Have Some Advice for You on The New York Times. “Runners at the National Senior Games in Miramar, Fla., competed in events ranging from the 50 meters to 1,500 meters. Their secret? ‘You’ve got to keep moving.'”

53. Elyse Myers’ TikToks are funny, yet insightful anecdotes on her mental health. I adore her.

P.S. I know the last two lists have been LONG, kind and gentle readers, but I will be taking a break from making lists the first three Mondays of June, so take your time, pace yourself!

1. Things to Look Forward to: An Illustrated Celebration of Living with Presence in Uncertain Times, Disguised as a Love Letter to the Future. “Caldecott-winning children’s book maker Sophie Blackall…coped the way all artists cope, complained the way all makers complain: by making something of beauty and substance, something that begins as a quickening of self-salvation in one’s own heart and ripples out to touch, to salve, maybe even to save others — which might be both the broadest and the most precise definition of art.”

2. Caren Baginski’s YouTube Channel, “restorative yoga, yoga nidra, and guided meditation.”

3. Recipes I want to try: Vegan Roasted Tomato Soup, and Strawberry and rhubarb, buttermilk and honey: A simple cake, and strawberry cornmeal griddle cakes.

4. Detroit Woman Set To Be First Black Woman To Hike Bruce Trail Since Underground Railroad. “A 20-year-old woman is on her way to complete the Bruce Trail in Southern Ontario, making her the first woman since the Underground Railroad to complete the hike.”

5. Toni Morrison’s Novel Sula to Become New Limited Series at HBO.

6. ‘I’d carry the misery around with me all day’: Sissy Spacek on acting, grief and her sci-fi debut at 72.

7. Her Novel Was Pulled for Plagiarism. Her Explanation Was, Too. on The New York Times. “An online essay in which the writer Jumi Bello explained copying others’ work for her novel was itself removed after further plagiarism was found.”

8. The World’s a Mess. So They’ve Stopped Saving for Tomorrow. on The New York Times. “Many adults under 35 are throwing financial caution to the wind. It’s all about saving less, spending more and pursuing passions.”

9. A man died of a heart attack while burying a woman he killed, S.C. sheriff says. Sometimes, karma is swift like that.

10. Humans Of New York Posts Tearjerking Story About Man Who Fostered Deep Connection With Childhood Teacher.

11. Ornate Jewel-Toned Stitches Embellish Common Household Objects Made From Textiles.

12. I’m a man of facts and science, but I know this – what dogs feel is not just attachment, it’s love. “Yes, I used the L-word. How else to put it, as evidence stacks up for the inherently social nature of our closest companions?”

13. I Lost My Baby. Then Antivaxxers Made My Pain Go Viral. on The New York Times.

14. The Strange Afterlife of George Carlin on The New York Times. “Nearly 14 years after his death, his provocative humor has been embraced by people across the political spectrum. What happens when comedy outlasts the era it was made for?”

15. Woman Walks Out Of Tattoo Session After The Artist Shamed Her Body.

16. Researchers Pinpoint Reason Infants Die From SIDS. “Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) accounts for about 37% of sudden unexpected infant deaths a year in the U.S., and the cause of SIDS has remained largely unknown. On Saturday, researchers from The Children’s Hospital Westmead in Sydney released a study that confirmed not only how these infants die, but why.”

17. Open Air with Cheri Huber, a podcast archive. “Cheri and Michael are on the air to facilitate a conversation to support the practice of conscious, compassionate awareness.”

18. From cheap to priceless: Roman bust isn’t the only treasure that’s been uncovered at Goodwill.

19. Selma Blair gets candid about childhood alcoholism, abuse, and her MS diagnosis in a new memoir. I preordered this.

20. “How to Be Alone” by Pádraig Ó Tuama, A Poetry Film by Leo G Franchi. (video) On Being has a whole collection of these videos, “our ‘Poetry Films’ series, which features animated interpretations of beloved poems from our archive.”

21. This dog broke into a Tennessee couple’s house and snuggled her way into their bed

22. Isaac Fitzgerald’s newsletter, Walk it Off, in which he goes for a walk with somebody and recounts their conversation.

23. The Honeymoon Phase Is Not Always A Mirage from Andrea Gibson. “How to return to seeing our partners as sublime.” Going to see Andrea perform next week and also have tickets to a show in November. They are one of my very favorite performers, poets, humans.

24. The War on Our Bodies: the Phase of Cold Clarity. “This draft remains a draft and in most states abortion is legal, unincumbered (looking at you, Texas) and is rooted in the worst of our past. It represents regression, racism and tyranny. But this draft provides us the gift of cold clarity. We don’t need to wonder. Our bodies, our families and our communities are on the line. As many have noted, the privacy rights afforded through the Roe v. Wade decision underpinned many modern decisions that impact our daily lives. The right to contraception, interracial marriage, and gay marriage are left vulnerable through a majority opinion like that of Alito’s draft.” This post ends with a “what do we do?” section. In related news, Peaceful protests outside Supreme Court justices’ homes is good (“The Supreme Court should not be considered immune to citizen feedback”), and Groups fighting vaccines and masks fail to see hypocrisy in opposing abortions (“Judges are ignoring medical associations and scientists in favor of organizations pushing disinformation”). 

25. 24 Ideas To Celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month (2022).

26. 101 Ways to Get Outside This Spring.

27. 10 Practical Ways to Help a Friend During a Chronic Pain Flare-Up.

28. Instagram video, “a discussion about how the pandemic has been affecting our mental health and what kind of relief is possible through mindfulness” with Rev angel Kyodo williams, David Perrin, jylani ma’at, and Ramsay Wing Okano Pierce.

29. Radical Self-Care Dharma Podcast with Lama Rod Owens, “author, activist, and authorized Lama in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, invites us to a radical self-care, based not on cutting ourselves off from the world, but rather on engaging with it fully. We do this through the recognition and practice of spaciousness, first by waking up to the space between thoughts within our own minds, and then offering this spaciousness to others.”

30. 30 Depression Poems That Are Raw, Real, and Powerful.

31. Shift your vibe! 60 quick ways to make yourself slightly happier.

32. The Trevor Project’s 2022 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health. “These data provide critical insights into some of the unique suicide risk factors faced by LGBTQ youth, top barriers to mental health care, and the negative impacts of COVID-19 and relentless anti-transgender legislation. This research also highlights several ways in which we can all support the LGBTQ young people in our lives—and help prevent suicide.”

33. The Unlikely Ascent of New York’s Compost Champion on The New York Times. “An ad led to Domingo Morales falling in love with compost. A windfall is helping him spread the word.”

34. Nepali Sherpa breaks her own record for most Mount Everest summits by a woman.

35. Pet owners can now sleep in giant dog beds: ‘It’s a need’. Yup, need it, along with a pile of sleepy puppies.

36. A Cook Who Never Used a Cookbook Now Has Her Own on The New York Times. “Emily Meggett, the keeper of centuries-old culinary traditions in the Carolinas, has spent her life feeding others. At 89, she shares her kitchen wisdom.”

37. How to tell if you’ve been emotionally abused by your parents: 6 things parents do that are extremely harmful. I read something related the other day, that “you can have a good childhood in a loving family and still have trauma.”

38. Actor Fred Ward dies. He had the right stuff in movies from ‘Tremors’ to ‘The Player’.

39. Controversial Influencer Company 7M Films Examined In HBO Max Docuseries. “7M Films, a management company that represents social media stars and TikTok dancers and is at the center of a controversy accusing it of being cult-like, is set to be the subject of a new documentary series.” In related news, 9 Top Signs of a Cult Leader.

40. Ashley Judd speaks about her mother’s passing, puts spotlight on mental health.

41. The Lost Americans on The New York Times. “Nearly one million people have died from Covid in the United States. Many of the loved ones they left behind are grieving in a nation that wants to move on.” In related news, Dr. Fauci on the state of the pandemic as the U.S. marks 1 million COVID-19 deaths.

42. Joy Oladokun – Purple Haze (Official Lyric Video). 

43. BBC Earth Has Been Quietly Uploading 10 Hour Loops of Calming Nature Scenes.

44. These Memories Shaped His Journey Into Hospice Work on Story Corps.

45. Here’s how much meat you should be eating if you want to save the planet. “New research outlines exactly what sustainable meat consumption looks like.”

46. More than fame and success, Rosie Perez found what she always wanted — a stable home.

47. ‘I told Jackie Chan, your loss, my bro!’: how Everything Everywhere gave Michelle Yeoh the role of a lifetime. “The action superstar shines in a new multiverse comedy. She talks about her high-risk, low-budget Hong Kong days, why you can be a superhero in your 60s – and whether she could kick James Bond’s butt.”

48. History Professor Dismantles Notion That All Babies Ate Breastmilk Before Modern Baby Formula Was Invented.

49. Margaret Atwood: The Court Is Making Gilead Real. “I thought I was writing fiction in The Handmaid’s Tale.”

50. The late Norm Macdonald left fans a surprise stand-up special. “Actor and comedian Norm Macdonald, who was well known as a Saturday Night Live star in the 1990s, shot a secret standup performance in his living room before he died last year at 61. His producing partner said Macdonald wanted to have another appearance for his fans should his health take a turn for the worst.”

51. The Free Black Women’s Library/Reading Room I. “The Free Black Women’s Library is a social art project that features a collection of over 4000 books written by Black women, as well as workshops, readings, film screenings, & critical conversations. The Free Black Women’s Library is opening a Reading Room in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn that will serve the community as a literary hub and creative co working space. All ages, race and genders are invited to use this space to read, write, dream, rest, create and connect. Money from Reading Room T shirt sales is being raised for renovations labor and materials.”

52. Baby Rhino and Baby Zebra Form a Unique Bond at South African Sanctuary. 

53. Buffalo Massacre: Systemic Racism Led To Killing Spree. White supremacy is a death cult and the foundation of U.S. culture. In related news, What we know about the victims of the Buffalo shooting.

54. Beach Houses on the Outer Banks Are Being Swallowed by the Sea on The New York Times. “A neighborhood of vacation homes off the coast of North Carolina has become a symbol of the effects of rising oceans.”

55. Mother Teresa: For the Love of God? review – damning testimony from a killer witness. “Did the nun really deserve her saintly reputation? She inspired a craze for self-flagellation among her ‘sisters’, says one woman in this shocking three-parter, while a street doctor is even more scathing.”

56. Knee Pain — What Really Helps Lessen Your Pain, “Background, Causes, Symptoms, Tips and Exercises from the Pain Specialists Liebscher & Bracht.”

57. Laura Pritchett: Graduates, embrace that wonderful “catastrophe” called life. “Here are 10 observations about what lies ahead that might prove more helpful than another traditional commencement address.”

58. Homework every night for the rest of your life from Austin Kleon. “Filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan once said, ‘Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.'”