Sunday 5

1. This was a really special conversation. It felt sacred to hear stories from two people who have lost their homes in fires, years apart, and see the ways in which grief and loss and renewal and family are all intertwined so infinitely. And

   Laurel Braitman
   is just always a gift to hear from.

2. Grateful to

   Elissa Strauss
   , author of one of my favorite books on care ever, When You Care, for writing about care and grief for CNN. We need more stories like this one, that take a real nuanced look at the little deaths of daily care for someone with a degenerative disease, out in the world. There is so much love, suffering, and solidarity here. (With a mention of The Sandwich Club to boot!)

3. Have you been hungry to build more community but unsure how to do it? The always smart

   Katherine Goldstein
   has launched her How to Find Your People Club, an IRL community-building project for the 21st century. It seems like an awesome and worthwhile experiment.

4. Always read

   Twilight Greenaway
   . On forest walks in the time of Trump: “On outings like this I feel an embodied form of sovereignty—not the kind Trump believes he’s entitled to, but the kind we all innately have over ourselves. Our own selves as part of something much larger, our minds and hearts ungovernable.”

   

   My own little mushroom study this week. Making art soothes me and is a great way to hang with my girls.

5. I am so moved by this website, Meet the Helpers, with sweet little videos of all these “helpers” and how they serve their communities. It was created to fill a need for age-appropriate content about emergencies after the Pulse Nightclub Shooting in Orlando on June 12, 2016. Here’s a 9-1-1 operator breaking down her role: