Sierra Voices Editor notes: The authors of this series on joy say that their articles are aimed at those in their 20s and 30s. But — speaking as an elderly — I feel it applies equally, perhaps even more powerfully, to my gang. [Don] Jolanta Burke, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and…
Here’s a copy of an email I sent our (grown) kids this morning (with, for this reprint, some absurdly lengthy added notes and links for clarity and fun): “I know that y’all probably watch TV much less frequently than I use the expression, “y’all,” but I have to recommend an absolutely beautiful TV series…
And My Own Looming Job Crisis BY REBECCA GORDON A year ago, just a few weeks before San Francisco locked itself down for the pandemic, I fell deeply in love with a 50-year-old. The object of my desire was a wooden floor loom in the window of my local thrift shop. Friends knowledgeable on such matters…
Maria Popova’s “Brain Pickings” is a free weekly digest — emailed on Sunday — in which she reviews books, both new and classic. She has the sensibility of a poet, and her reviews are a pure joy to read. Here’s an excerpt from today’s edition: Wintering: Resilience, the Wisdom of Sadness, and How the…
by Don Pelton Congressman and Constitutional scholar Jamie Raskin loves the Constitution, and his fight to preserve it against the depredations of Trump and Trumpism is now amplified by his love for his adult son, Tommy, “a radiant light in this broken world,” who tragically lost his life to depression “on the last hellish…