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TimestampA book, a movie, a scene, a quote, a lyric?
If you'd like attribution, put your first name and last initial here (e.g. Laura O):
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12/9/2021 11:06:14the THRESHOLDS podcast -- particularly the interviews with Ross Gay and Patrick Cottrell
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12/9/2021 11:09:54"A Swim in the Pond in the Rain" by George SaundersKate P.
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12/9/2021 11:14:17When Olivia Rodrigo said, "And maybe in some masochistic way, I kinda find it all exciting. Like, which lover will I get today?"Maryellen S
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12/9/2021 11:14:23The Entire Cast of THE WHITE LOTUSStephen R
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12/9/2021 11:17:29Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for
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12/9/2021 11:22:11Nomadland definitely sparked something in me. A few months after watching it, I quit my job and have been living on the road for the past 2 months.
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12/9/2021 11:30:11A poem from Lawrence Ferlinghetti that says something likes: "Instead of trying to escape reality, plunge into the flesh of the world"Laura R
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12/9/2021 11:33:40This squirrel hand puppet therapist on TikTok. https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdjkmPEr/J.S.
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12/9/2021 11:36:42"And I was never good at telling jokes but the punchline goes: I'll get older, but your lovers stay my age."

also i just feel super lucky to have been around for and aware of demi adejuyigbe's yearly september 21st videos. as someone who tries to be really mindful of sourcing joy where/when i can (per my therapist's advice, ofc), this has been an annual goldmine. 		HMT
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12/9/2021 12:06:25Laura Olin email openings and closings - Hi and Bye! - look forward to them every week :-)))Mary H
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12/9/2021 12:21:32The Midnight Library by Matt Haig - the book really hit me at a big time of transition - I listened to the audiobook, which is narrated by Carey Mulligan, I'd fully recommend it.Becky P
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12/9/2021 12:26:59The release of John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme live in Seattle"Gregory D
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12/9/2021 12:28:05https://vimeo.com/548450748?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=4613239 Feras AF
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12/9/2021 12:42:55The book Weather by Jenny OffillNina S
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12/9/2021 12:51:56This admittedly marketing play by Google is resonating with me this year. Mostly because I think we are very much in a time when Big Tech is Big Evil. And what we're rarely talking about anymore is how Big Tech did a lot of heavy lifting in the pandemic and before to connect people spread across the globe and provide support for people who don't know where else to turn. Do they have their problems? Absolutely. But there are still people doing work that matters and that is good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&fbclid=IwAR2FBgxtMAJThL3jCXSn-HCO7xTlemBR4EzFRvSK3quDu8ls5avwCv7I07s&v=EqboAI-Vk-U&feature=youtu.be
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12/9/2021 13:09:28The song "I Have a Love" from "For Those I Love" made me want to run through the streets at night. So I did.
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12/9/2021 13:10:33Curb Your Enthusiasm (any scene with Leon). The Secret History of Home Economics, by Danielle Dreilinger.
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12/9/2021 13:56:51Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss - Margaret RenklSarah C
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12/9/2021 14:08:20Louise Erdrich was a big author in my life this year. This quote sums up so much for me: “Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.” -Louise ErdrichMarie S
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12/9/2021 14:17:15Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell. I have listened to the audiobook 4x since it came out in July. There is so much "talking about feelings" which is my favorite thing especially when Rainbow Rowell writes it. It's romantic and exciting and sexy and funny and just so satisfying! Christina M.
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12/9/2021 14:52:14David Lehman's book "100 autobiographies." The book is a memoir, written as the poet undergoes extensive (chemo, surgery) for cancer. I started to read it after my partner's diagnosis with testicular cancer, I think in hopes of seeing how someone else survived a much more advanced cancer--I wanted a kind of survival map I guess. And I did get that out of the book. But I also got so much more even--it's a book about New York, about writers he was friends with like John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch and Lionel Trilling, and about people he's been influenced by like Graham Greene and Edith Piaf. It was a really discursive and life-affirming book, and as it's written by a poet, the structure is broken into 100 short vignettes, associatively linked. I really loved the time I spent with this book. It felt like sitting next to someone brilliant and kind at a bar, sipping a second martini late at night with them, lingering a little longer because the conversation is so good before finally wandering home through NYC's familiar streets.Kate A.
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12/9/2021 16:06:24https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2Q8325-78E
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12/9/2021 16:49:43“Don’t fight forces, use them.” – Buckminster Fuller
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12/9/2021 19:35:19This short essay from Mandy Brown, Remote To Who? helped me completely re-orient my perspective on what it means to 'work from home' https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/remote-to-who

[Also, thank you so much for your newsletter. You share so many good things and so many things that have helped this year]		Mita W.
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12/9/2021 21:02:19This quote: "Don't try to do it all. No one cares."
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12/9/2021 21:35:13BOOK - Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens. It reminded me in lockdown of how beauty can be found in the little things and in nature.Mandy C
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12/9/2021 21:57:54Ann Patchett's essay "These Precious Days" in January Harper's (https://harpers.org/archive/2021/01/these-precious-days-ann-patchett-psilocybin-tom-hanks-sooki-raphael/)Mark M.
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12/9/2021 23:44:39“Would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin?” — a line from “Chaise Longue” by Wet Leg, a duo that need do nothing else but this debut single to enter the Music Hall of Fame in my Heart and MindErick H
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12/10/2021 1:13:22https://ckarchive.com/b/4zuvheh7vpzp Feras AF
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12/10/2021 1:57:43"beautiful move when you reach for the door, like they would have made the straps loose enough for that" wriggle by clipping (song) which I heard a few days before a full blown sexual awakening involving self acceptance about my bdsm preferences. (A bit of a spicy example but whatever.)Lauren N
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12/10/2021 10:16:48Wild, rousing lockdown album 'Lost in the Cedar Wood' by Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane Hannah C
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12/10/2021 10:20:13I feel a sin comin' on
I feel a right that's about to go wrong
I got a shiver down to the bone
I feel a sin comin' on		Jimmy Jazz
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12/10/2021 12:56:55Tick, Tick...Boom!'s unflinching look at how much love, patience, and practice it takes to create
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12/10/2021 13:57:40A gift. Postcards From Timbuktu-impress your friends, employ artists, avoid the long beach snarl.
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12/10/2021 14:11:14All of Inside by Bo Burnham (it helps that I too turned 30 during the height of shutdown in 2020)
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12/10/2021 15:06:03The @CanadianPaintings twitter feed is a thoughtfully chosen and beautiful respite from the woes of the world. https://twitter.com/CanadaPaintings
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12/10/2021 19:40:38Zadie Smith's Intimations. The compact nature of the essays, the sense of place and time in the writing were just perfect for this time. The writing was full of big ideas but concise enough to hold my attention. Mehrunnisa Y
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12/10/2021 20:27:11The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
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12/10/2021 22:16:15The book (graphic novel version) On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
by Timothy Snyder Nora Krug (Illustrations). Absolutely incredible text and illustrations. This is so good that I think I'll be buying copies for friends and family. This would be excellent for an older teen and any adult who enjoys creative, impactful, educational pieces of art and history. I felt like this book outlines a lot of things I'm seeing online, for better or worse. It gives context to the reasons why people put up signs above freeways (and tear them down), for example, and why symbolism matters. There's simple political acts, like getting to know your neighbors, and having a private life, that I never really considered in a broader way--but that seem more important now. I loved this. It was so well done and thought-provoking and I think everyone should gift this one to someone else for the holidays.		Jillian C
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12/10/2021 22:22:12This quote: Boundaries are the distance I can love you and me simultaneously. by Prentis Hemphill. I think it hits bc so many people have more pressure to travel and socialize now, but so many things haven't gotten better with differences in vaccinations and beliefs--just stronger, deeper and more divided. I think people are realizing boundaries may not just save your sanity, but also your life these days. Jillian C
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12/11/2021 7:26:02A Twitter Feed https://twitter.com/eliistender10?t=JXsTrA_6v856FM5c5JT8eA&s=09 Spreading positivity across Twitter every single day. Sam G
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12/12/2021 4:51:12„And if you missed a day, there was always the next,
and if you missed a year, it didn’t matter,
the hills weren’t going anywhere,
the thyme and rosemary kept coming back,
the sun kept rising, the bushes kept bearing fruit“ - an excerpt from the poem Sunrise by Louise Glück		Anne W
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12/13/2021 19:04:48The loveliness and heartbreak of 'Dear Theodosia'Molly B.
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12/14/2021 11:59:04"We love one another. We don't really know anyone well but / we love one / another." - Franz Wright 5:00 MassMaya D
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1/6/2022 19:20:07The frolic architecture of snow. - Emerson Merlene G.
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