1. Wisdom from Debora Smail, “To make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world.” (Thanks to Karen for sharing).
2. The great PBS NewsHour work-life balance experiment.
3. Nina Simone’s Daughter Says New Documentary About Her Mother Gets It Right.
4. EXCLUSIVE: Bree Newsome Speaks For The First Time After Courageous Act of Civil Disobedience.
5. 5 Genius Gadgets From Japanese Bathrooms That Americans Should Borrow.
6. An Evangelical Pastor At His First Pride Parade.
7. I used to lead tours at a plantation. You won’t believe the questions I got about slavery.
8. I get food stamps, and I’m not ashamed — I’m angry.
9. Here Are 4 Ways to Navigate Whiteness and Feminism – Without Being a White Feminist (TM).
10. This Flow Chart That Destroys Religion’s Case Against Gay Marriage Is So Easy, Any Zealot Can Use It.
11. ‘Elder: A Mormon Love Story.’
12. Not a Civil Debate.
13. Keep It Simple Book Review on decor8.
14. Everything Is Yours, Everything Is Not Yours.
15. How Bestselling Author Austin Kleon Writes, Part One. Austin shared Part Two on his blog.
16. How #AskELJames totally backfired on the ‘Fifty Shades’ author.
17. Truthbomb #832 from Danielle LaPorte, “Your scars are someone else’s signs of hope.”
18. Growing up from Tara Sophia Mohr.
19. How a Devastating Diagnosis Taught me How to Really Live and How to Engage in Social Media without Losing Your Mind and The World is Waiting For You (put it on your to-do list) from Be More With Less.
20. Epilogue: Gussy’s Gone from Sara Seinberg. Because this, “And I lived.”
21. Noisli. “Improve focus and boost your productivity. Mix different sounds and create your perfect environment.”
22. “Spoken word artist Sarah Kay explores time and place in our premiere of #BriefButSpectacular – NewsHour’s new Facebook-first series that every Thursday morning brings you snippets of insight from today’s artists, leaders and thinkers.”
23. Eating Disorder Recovery Advocacy Is Usually Fatphobic – Here Are 4 Ways to Start Fixing That.
24. Good things worth funding: Scott Carver’s Bucket List Fund, and IF WE LEFT: A True Story Movie, and Andres’ Bone Marrow Transplant, and Cosette & Henri – A Tale of Two Puppy Mill Dogs, and Robert Davis Memorial fund, and Journey to Heal.
25. This Tumblr Is Exposing Hollywood’s Problem With People Of Colour.
26. Accepting my Sensitivity Healed my Emotional Eating.
26. The Most Adorable and Awesome Sci-Fi Love Story Ever: The One-Minute Time Machine [Video]
27. Wisdom from Thomas Merton, (shared by Susan Piver), “If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”
28. The Dalai Lama: A Model of Someone Who Has Lost A Lot.
29. Did This Woman Witness The Worst Date Ever?
30. The Bill Cosby sexual assault allegations, explained.
31. She Was Told She Shouldn’t Be Wearing A Bikini. Her Response? AMAZING!
32. FIFA is giving the U.S. $2 million for its World Cup win. It gave Germany $35 million in 2014.
33. Rashida Jones On Being Sex-Positive But Still Challenging The Porn Industry.
34. See the Photo That Inspired the Internet to Rally Around a Gay Youth. A ‘Humans of New York’ post generated a flood of positive messages, including one from Hillary Clinton.
35. There are 6 Scriptures about homosexuality in the Bible. Here’s what they really say. P.S. All references to homosexuality are in the Old Testament. Jesus never said one word about it, unless you count “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
36. How ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Misrepresents Women’s Federal Prison (And Why It Matters).
37. Hot and Bothered. Air conditioning isn’t bad for you or even (relatively) for the planet.
38. The art of storytelling, according to the founders of StoryCorps and Humans of New York.
39. The Aftermath Of Bill Cosby’s Admission? That’s Rape Culture.
40. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh, (a PDF).
41. Dear People Who Live in Fancy Tiny Houses. I love tiny houses and the people who live in them, but this made me giggle.
42. Kitten Wasn’t Going To Survive … Until She Met Her Dog Mom.
43. Be a Great Ally to Fat Folks by Getting Neutral about Food.
44. This Adorable Girl Trying To Hula Hoop Failed So Hard She Won. I wish this video were so much longer.
45. It’s Still Me…Only Sadder.
46. David Letterman Goes Top 10 on Donald Trump.
47. The 37 Best Websites To Learn Something New.
48. Anti-Courage, my old friend from Kirsten Akens.
49. Do you know what you are committing to? from Life is Limitless.
50. 25 Lessons When You’re Ready for a Simpler Life and 7 Things You Gain When You Let Go of Control from Marc and Angel Hack Life.
52. Good stuff shared by Alexandra Franzen: How I met the love of my life. (A true story about what happens when you say what is true.), and 14 Newsletters You Need in Your Inbox, and What to do when a friend is grieving — and you don’t know how to help, and How to get “back on track” with a goal when you’re backsliding, hard.
53. What If Schools Hired Dogs As Therapists? A school in San Diego uses a “facility dog” to offer children a kind of healing that humans sometimes cannot provide.
54. I, Racist.
55. 6 Things to Know About How to Get Out of Funk Town on Zen Habits.
56. Shared on Chookooloonks this was a good week list: What Is Privilege?, and Dad And Daughter Face Off In Epic Beatboxing Battle, If Male Actors Were Described The Way Female Actors Are, and Five beautiful things Danny Gregory saw today.
57. Before You Can Write a Book, You Have to Do THIS First…
58. Good stuff from {Peacefulinks #12}: Idea to Awesome: How Jennifer Louden Created Her Online “Life Navigation Course”, and Visual Thesaurus.
59. Found it, doing it: still me from Kat McNally.
60. New music: (shared by Susannah on her Something for the Weekend list), Oh Wonder.
Open Space Practice, (AKA: A Thousand Shades of Gray) 