Category Archives: Something Good

Something Good

1. Come What Come May from Jena Schwartz.

2. Guy forgot to change his address in his Chipotle app and it resulted in the sweetest exchange. This reminds me of how every time I lose something, instead of feeling bad about it, I try to imagine how happy the person who finds it will be to have it.

3. Warm Springs to Reopen Kah-Nee-Ta Village in 2023.

4. 2022 Year of the Water Tiger print by Chris Chun. “Featuring goldfish that symbolise prosperity and the peony rose which represents abundance, the Water Tiger has been created to bring good fortune and strength for 2022. Occupying 3rd position in the Chinese Zodiac, tigers are the symbol of brave. People born in the Year of the Tiger are friendly, brave, competitive, charming and endowed with good luck and authority. The Year of the Water Tiger promises a year of positive changes, spontaneity and growth. 2022 is a time for all Zodiac Signs to give the best of themselves in order to improve their life and move forward with a newfound sense of confidence and determination.”

chrischun_tiger2022_web_540x5. The Do’s and Don’ts of Helping Ukrainian Refugees. In related news, People are booking Airbnbs in Ukraine — not to stay, but to lend their support, and Five Poems for Ukraine by Kim Stafford, and How to help people in Ukraine and refugees fleeing the conflict with Russia, and Zelenskyy’s 2019 inaugural speech goes viral for its exemplary display of humanity in leadership, and Performative Social Media Activism Doesn’t Help Ukraine, and How To Help Ukraine: Donate To Orgs & Stop Misinformation, and Secret ancestral codes: 12 main symbols in Ukrainian embroidery, and How can I help Ukraine? Trusted infos and ways to help Ukraine.

6. The Tallest Known Tree in New York Falls in the Forest. Part of the Afterword series, “an obituary column that pays homage to people, places, and things we’ve lost.”

7. What’s making us happy: A guide for your weekend reading, listening and viewing on NPR.

8. Recipes I want to try: Roasted Asian Cauliflower with Soy-Ginger Sauce, and Sesame Cabbage Fritters, and Orange Cauliflower “Chicken”.

9. How Kayode accidentally became a meme. (video)

10. Hannah Gadsby in Hollywood: “Jennifer Aniston Would Like to Meet You,” and Other Surreal Tales. “In an exclusive excerpt from Ten Steps to Nanette, the comedian reflects on the whirlwind around her groundbreaking Netflix special.”

11. Why Highly Sensitive People Are Attracted to Jobs That Burn Them Out. “To HSPs, job satisfaction is often about doing meaningful work. But due to their extremely high levels of empathy, this work can also burn them out.”

12. I Didn’t Know If I Believed In The Afterlife. Then My Dead Father Sent Me A Message.

13. People are sharing what they believe happens after we die. The responses are enlightening.

14. The long, strange history of anti-vaccination movements.

15. We’ve All Wondered What Animals Would Say If They Could Speak, And Artist Jimmy Craig Has An idea.

16. House Passes Bill to Make Lynching a Hate Crime on The New York Times. “Lawmakers in both parties hailed the action as historic, but a separate bill to outlaw discrimination based on a person’s natural hair failed amid Republican opposition.”

17. COMIC: When the bad news is endless, here’s how to cope with your anxiety.

18. ‘Abbott Elementary’ creator Quinta Brunson finds humor and heart in the classroom.

19. What to Do When the World Is Ending.

20. “Intuition is Essential.” Writing Advice from Gabriel García Márquez.

21. The world is unpredictable and strange. Still, there is hope in the madness. “The world that is coming is something we can work toward but not something we can foresee.”

22. On Alice. “The fact that her life would be necessarily short, as all dogs’ are, was never an abstraction to me. It was the shadow of how much I loved her. It was rarely far from my mind, the thought that she would someday die. I often wondered how it would happen and when.”

23. Ethereal Paper Sculptures and Large-Scale Installations by Ayumi Shibata Play With Light and Shadow.

24. What’s in a Black name? 400 years of context. “From Phillis Wheatley to Lil Uzi Vert, Black names and their evolution tell the story of America.”

25. Only the questions from Austin Kleon. “Clive Thompson made an online tool that shows you only the questions in a piece of writing. I love it because I love questions and also because it turns everything into Padgett Powell’s The Interrogative Mood. I fed it the complete text of each book in my trilogy.”

26. “It’s OK” LIVE – Nightbirde (video). RIP Jane.

27. This is the sweetest thing.peptalks.

Something Good

1. Let’s Be Lazy: 10 Ways to Rest and Relax from Courtney Carver on Be More With Less. Also from Courtney, A Simple Life is Messy Too (we can’t simplify our way into a perfect life).

2. Turning toward new ways of being. “The future that we long for, and that we’re making now, is in us. It’s alive today. It’s part of our inheritance from our living, non-living, human, and non-human ancestors.”

3. A Handbook for Abolitionists. “Patrisse Cullors’ new book offers guidance for personal, as well as systemic, change. Breaking the cycle of harm starts with us.”

4. Don’t tell cancer patients what they could be doing to cure themselves. “There are many ways to support someone going through cancer treatment. Recommending pseudo-scientific treatments isn’t one of them.”

5. We’re Entering the Control Phase of the Pandemic. “The virus isn’t done with us. So we need a new approach to dealing with it.” In related news, Post-Omicron Life Can Be Downright Maddening (“How to live with the uncertainty of not knowing what comes next”), and Should You Still Wear a Mask? (“Experts weigh in on where, and when, you can safely take one off”) on The New York Times.

6. Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle a video series created by one of the authors commenting on each chapter of the book. In related news, Your Body Knows You’re Burned Out on The New York Times. “Here’s how to recognize the physical symptoms of work-related stress — and what to do about them.”

7. Road trip Q&A with Austin Kleon.

8. 6 Black Women Authors Whose Books Will Help You Better Understand Blackness in America. In related news, Black Voices in American Music: The Playlist.

9. Things I Didn’t Know I Loved from Laurie Wagner.

10. Welcome to Colonoscopy Land. “Are you ready to poop 27 times?????” If you know, you know.

11. A Digital Map Leads to Reparations for Black and Indigenous Farmers. “The map’s creators envision equitable distribution of land and resources through ‘people-to-people’ reparations.”

12. Netflix and Disney face a growing challenge: streaming mercenaries. “As the streaming wars heat up, companies like Netflix, Disney, Amazon, Apple, and Hulu are vying to keep customers around for the long haul.”

13. Why We Love Lazy, Drunk, Broke Women on TV on The New York Times.

14. Ten rules for writing fiction.

15. See (the Worst People in) the World!  “How defiant Covid-era customers turned a dream job — flight attendant — into a total nightmare.” on The New York Times.

16. How to clear the air in the most polluted cities on Earth.

17. The Trauma of Transracial Adoption. In related news, I Kept My Family’s Secret For Over 60 Years. Now, I’m Finally Telling The Truth. “And so, yes, I am grateful my parents chose me. I am no longer ashamed to be an adoptee. I may never find my biological mother, but on this journey of life, I hope to find me.”

18. 4 Behaviors Are The Most Reliable Predictors Of Divorce.

19. Tears for Fears returns with “The Tipping Point”.

20. Wildlife officials throw 3,000 pounds of lettuce a day into the sea to save starving manatees.

21. Recipe I want to try: French Onion Chicken Macaroni and Cheese.

22. 6 Signs It’s Time to Leave Your Job. “At some point, all of us experience moments when we must face the difficult decision to let go of something that formerly offered us purpose. But big decisions, like a career change, should be approached thoughtfully. While sometimes this can be done by reinventing your current work, there are times where the right choice is to strike out on a fresh path.”

23. A robot bought my seven-year-old car for more than I paid brand-new. “Carvana gave me more than I ever dreamed it was worth — how?”

24. Weight-Neutral, Non-Restrictive Blood Sugar Management Strategies by Ragen Chastain of Dances With Fat, one of the only humans I’d trust to talk about this topic.

25. I Ain’t Sorry. “Not everything you consume needs to be groundbreaking, universally loved, or some form of advocacy. It can just be shit that makes you feel happy.”

26. Followers Of Christian Influencer Brittany Dawn Said They Are Angry That She Pivoted To Religion To Avoid Scrutiny Over Her Fitness Scam. “They said Christians are called to expose people who are dishonest, not hide behind the promise of forgiveness when they’ve messed up.”

27. I wanna start a thread of seeing black men smiling. Or as I like to call it, “one of the best Twitter threads, ever.”

28. A Woman Is Cured of H.I.V. Using a Novel Treatment on The New York Times. “She’s the third person ever to be cured. Researchers announced that the new approach holds the potential for curing more people of racially diverse backgrounds.”

29. Animal Embroidery Made With Vibrant Bursts of Colorful Stitches.

30. Bisa Butler stitches Black history together one portrait at a time.

31. Delightful Nighttime Landscapes Nestle into Stacked Wooden Boxes in Allison May Kiphuth’s Dioramas.

32. Meet Skippy, a 26-Year-Old Border Collie Who Is the “Oldest Dog in Ireland”.

33. Luscious Oil Paintings Bloom Flowers That Look Real Enough To Touch. This makes me long for peony season.