Sunday 5

1. Elissa Strauss can write her caring ass off. I love this so much. A taste: “As it happened, my relationship with my kids has been as philosophically, spiritually, or intellectually vital as anything else I’ve done, leading to the kind of realizations we’ve long wanted to seek elsewhere, away from the home, away from the family. Through them, I’ve cultivated a healthy relationship with uncertainty, with attention, with  feeling closer to the source of life, whatever it is, with all its wonder and fragility—all moments of revelation that came by way of a mix of stress, rupture, wholeness, and ease. If I had let motherhood stay small, confined to the sidelines, then those stressful moments would have felt like forces holding me back on my way to an interesting and meaningful life. But by letting motherhood become big, those challenges—and yes, my kids annoy me sometimes, and yes, I appreciate working and other time I spend away from them—became part of a larger narrative arc.”

2. Speaking of care, I love Sara Luterman’s content consistently in the 19th. This week she covers how Rep. Jennifer Wexton made disability history by becoming the first member of Congress to deliver a speech using an assistive and augmentative communication device on the House floor, but also analyzes the media coverage of that moment. Layers on layers on layers.

3. Cool online event alert: The 2024 CoGen Innovation Showcase — Cogenerate’s signature event of the year — is your chance to hear from 10 front-line innovators who are bringing older and younger people together to open the doors to a more inclusive, prosperous future.

4. I am tearing through Miranda July’s new novel, All Fours. It’s as fresh and weird and beautiful as they come. I can’t wait to talk to all my women about it.

5. The fam and I started the Netflix nature series, Our Living World, and I’m dying to get back to it.