1. We Can Do Hard Things Ep 215 | The Bravest Conversation We’ve Had: Andrea Gibson. I am gutted by the recent health update from Andrea.
2. If you want to fix your own clothes, try this easy style of mending.
4. A personality test can’t tell you who you are. “The desire to define ourselves, from love languages to Myers-Briggs types.”
5. Childfree By Choice: 5 Reasons I Never Wanted Kids.
6. What to do about grocery store plastic.
7. Do we really need an app for everything?
8. Poems from Rosemerry Wathola Trommer: A Letter to the Graduates, and Some Mornings, and On the Night I Learn (Again) We Are Doomed. Added bonus, this gorgeous video of her poem Teach Me The Dark. And then this one showed up in my inbox this morning with the subject line “Why I Garden”: In Search.
9. Monday Missive: Alter Ego from Jena Schwartz. “Let my ego shatter into a thousand shards of light.”
10. The Buddhist Path that Transformed Tina Turner on Lion’s Roar. “From humble beginnings to global stardom, Tina Turner credited her Buddhist practice for her survival, success, and happiness. Following her passing, Donald Brackett shares how her journey exemplifies resilience and looks at the profound legacy she leaves behind.”
11. Everything you need to know about #1000wordsofsummer from Jami Attenberg.
12. 5 Simple Ways for Introverts to Get More Healthy Alone Time.
13. Wisdom from fabeku fatunmise’s newsletter: “your bodyself is god’s bodyself. your bodyself is nature’s bodyself. same. distinct from one angle. never different. never separate. what is breathing you is same thing that breathes Palm Tree + Octopus + Honeycomb + Fulgurite. you are the same in your substance. in your proximity to the vast loving that makes the ocean dance + seeds grow into flowers that keep us in alive in their beauty. distinct. the way fingers are distinct. not different. anchored in the same thing. extensions of what some call god. others call life. you are that. there is nothing small in you that’s real. we know your name as vast-expanse-of-love, vast-expanse-of-love, vast-expanse-of-love.”
14. An Open Thank You Note to My Neighbors and Their Gardens.
15. The real monster behind soaring prices. “It’s becoming clear that corporate greed is screwing over the US economy.”
16. Buddhism and Gardening on Lion’s Roar: Dogen’s Instructions to the Gardener (“Karen Maezen Miller on cultivating the three minds—joyful mind, kind mind, and great mind”), and Grow Your Mindfulness in the Garden (“Cheryl Wilfong on how to practice the four foundations of mindfulness in the garden”), and The True Nature of a Flower (“For Valerie Brown, her garden is a teacher of the dharma. In every bloom she sees impermanence, nonself, and nirvana”).
18. Oldies but Goodies from Austin Kleon: Be the light or reflect it and The religion of walking.
19. ‘Things are definitely opening up’: the rise of older female writers. “Unpublished authors in their 60s, 70s and 80s are now at a premium in the book world – with radical, edgy women in high demand.”
20. Derrick Downey Jr. on Instagram. And here is why: Guy builds a house with a tiny kitchen and living room for a squirrel named Richard… and Richard uses the house to start a family! (video)
21. Tallulah Willis on Grief, Healing, and the Road Ahead.
22. ‘Somebody Somewhere’ Renewed for Season 3 at HBO. Woo-hoo!!!
23. Flooded with online hate, the musician corook decided to keep swimming.
24. One Man’s Mission to Make Running Everyone’s Sport on The New York Times. “Martinus Evans wants to make running more inclusive. His new book beckons back-of-the-packers to lace up.”
25. ‘Deeper than a sexual betrayal’: what happens if your partner doesn’t like your writing? “In Nicole Holofcener’s incisive new comedy You Hurt My Feelings, a horrifying scenario leads to uncomfortable questions.”
26. Grief Groceries. “Both of those gift-givers knew something I didn’t know – that when you are grieving, you don’t want to make decisions. No, that’s not quite it: You can’t make decisions. You hit decision fatigue really fast.”
27. Post-graduation advice you’ll actually use. “Set a budget, don’t center your life around work, and other advice for graduates.”
29. Lisa Stevens’ Ceramic Sculptures Capture Coral-Inspired Motifs in Vibrant Color. In related news, Intricate Ceramic Sculptures Mimic the Shapes and Forms of Aquatic Life.
30. ‘Temples of Books’ Is an Ode to the Grandeur and Democratic Ideals of Public Libraries.
31. On Joyful Movement (from Lindley Ashline’s Body Liberation Guide newsletter): What is Joyful Movement?, and 7 Ways to Heal Your Relationship With Exercise and Movement, and 10 Ways to Build an Actually Sustainable Workout Routine You Love, and Here’s How the ‘Health at Every Size’ Movement Made Me a Better Trainer, and 50 fun, joyful movement ideas.
32. Half Magic: The Power Of Half-Way and The Power of Help.
33. Brandon Taylor: ‘Writing is the most fun I’m capable of having’. “The American author talks about growing up queer in a family of ‘wolves’, poverty and class in the US, and the 19th-century writers who inspired his latest novel.”
34. Drew Barrymore Is Figuring It Out Live. “Her radically intimate daytime show is as much therapy for her as it is for her guests.”
35. All the rage: the rise of the menopause novel. “Self-help shelves are filled with guides to surviving midlife, but where is the fiction? Lisa Allardice talks to Marian Keyes, Joanne Harris and others about ‘hot-flush lit’.”
36. Outstanding figurative driftwood sculptures by Tony Fredriksson.
37. These were the most frequently performed plays and musicals in high schools this year.
Open Space Practice, (AKA: A Thousand Shades of Gray) 