I’m thinking a lot about loneliness. And solitude. And connection. You too? We’re not alone. Dr. Vivek Murthy, former Surgeon General of the United States just wrote a book, Together: the Healing Power of Social Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World. He spoke...
To Be Of Use — by Marge Piercy The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight. They seem to become natives of that element, the black sleek heads of seals bouncing like...
Happy Friday of the world’s longest week. Was this the world’s longest week? It seemed like it. Maybe the loooong week got me thinking about a more bite-sized book. Or at least one with short chapters you can read in small doses as the mood hits you. I thought...
Hello Everyone, Don’t know about you, but this week has felt like the longest one yet. I hear about fatigue setting in everywhere… fatigue from sitting in the chair looking at a screen in unsatisfying attempts to connect, fatigue with too much connection (entire...
Hello All — Summer temperatures arrived in Florida yesterday. So The Summer Day, by Mary Oliver, feels appropriate. And it’s one of my favorite poems. I love Mary Oliver’s poetry — nature, personal awareness of ones place in the universe, the right to belong, to make...
Hi Everyone and Happy Friday! It’s Book Rec Friday. Each Friday I’m sharing a book recommendation that feels relevant/helpful/interesting as we travel through this pandemic time together. Last week I suggested Shauna M. Ahern’s memoir, Enough. Today’s...
Every Wednesday, I’m recommending a podcast episode I recently listened to that I loved, feel is relevant to what we’re going through in this pandemic era, and want to share with you. (The previous 2 were Brené Brown’s new podcast, Unlocking Us –on FFTs–, and On...
The Peace Of Wild Things, by Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great...
Hi Everyone and Happy Friday! This is installment #3 — Book Rec Friday — as promised last week in the blog and newsletter*. Each Friday I’ll share a book recommendation that feels relevant/helpful/interesting as we travel through this pandemic time together....