thinking thursday.
MIND
I like this list of books on conscious parenting.
Something has to be done about America’s mentally ill. Our mental health system is broken. So broken: “The only time mental illness dominates the national conversation is when something goes tragically wrong. But the dialogue doesn’t last. It gets buried under arguments about gun control, video game violence and unheeded signs of trouble — until there’s yet another mass shooting.”Holidays are not all fun and games for many people. Here are some thoughts on how to manage depression during this holiday season.
BODY
There is no other description of these photos of vanishing tribes than stunning.
If I learned anything in 2013, it was the art of decluttering, of letting things flow through me, not stopping that flow by owning them, keeping them, storing them. Here are some decluttering lessons with which I can identify.
Vegan eggnog. Yes, please.
Vegan reubens. We’ve made these a few times in the last few weeks. Delish.
SOUL
A love story possible because of his father’s Alzheimer’s.
20 ways sitting in silence can transform your life: “Silence taught me to be in my body.”
Music saves lives: “I have come to understand that music is not part of ‘arts and entertainment’ as the newspaper section would have us believe. It’s not a luxury, a lavish thing that we fund from leftovers of our budgets, not a plaything or an amusement or a pass time. Music is a basic need of human survival. Music is one of the ways we make sense of our lives, one of the ways in which we express feelings when we have no words, a way for us to understand things with our hearts when we can’t with our minds.”
WORD
“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.” ? John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Photo: A photo I took in Stockholm in 1996, printed as an image transfer.
