Content Care Package: Edition 1
We’ve pulled together our first Content Care Package full of link love, inspiration, and we hope support. These are all the things that we’ve been turning to over the past week(s). We’re realizing that in all our idiosyncrasies and wonderfully imperfect ways we’re finding different things to help us wherever and however we find ourselves. These are ours; we know you have yours. Let us know which sources of joy, wisdom, and connection you are looking to in your worlds.
Connection & Community:
Stacey Abrams talking to Brittany Packnett Cunningham as part of the Aspen Ideas Festival about the potential for transformation in our current moment.
“The science of friendship gives you permission to hang out with your friends and call it healthy.” Lydia Denworth on her new book, Friendship.
If you are interested in making an actual, physical send-it-in-the-mail care package, here’s how Ann Friedman makes them.
Nature:
The drive-in movie theater takes to the water in Paris this summer.
“Travel is a powerful antidote to the growing distance many feel from the natural world. But I’m just now learning that travel does not have to mean flying to the other side of the planet. A walk around the block will do. It’s not how far we go in miles that counts, but how deeply we allow the world to enter us.” Paying attention to our daily routes.
Many of us are looking to nature as a way of finding our balance right now, a connection many beloved writers have made before.
Mind/Body Connection:
We’re maybe slightly enamored by this voice, Jeff Warren telling us How to Meditate on the Calm app.
Interested in dancing but don’t want to leave your house? Try new Virtual Studio Imaginative Movement by our friend Lauren Duchene (Amanda designed the logo): “My dream was to create a space that inspires children and adults to use their imaginations and gain new strength in a way that is accessible.”
As a true Brit (well, one of us), we’re turning to tea in times of crisis.
Untethering:
Do you count yourself in the 84% of Smartphone users who can’t go a day without their device? If so, check out these resources for rebalancing tech in your life.
If you need five-minutes of untethering, we recommend listening to poetry on The Slowdown (see recent episode Frequently Asked Questions: #7)
Need a Phone Detox?
Purpose:
“Museums must practice empathy and close the gap between themselves and their communities; they must provide space for conversations on the issues that matter to the lives of their audiences, neighbors, and employees. Museums must be sites of advocacy, not just for the artistic and art-historical traditions that they hold so dear, but for basic rights to life, safety, shelter, well-being, and economic and intellectual sustenance. Museums must dismantle regimes of power even when that power emanates from within.” Rethinking our cultural institutions in terms of care and knowledge is vital to how they function in society.
We’re just a little in love with Jameela Jamil’s podcast particularly the episodes with Reese Witherspoon, Scarlet Curtis and Vivek Murphy (also see his new book Together which we’re currently listening to on Audible)
Spirituality & Meaning:
What does your Enneagram number mean?
“Finding answers from above for whatever the hell is going on down here.’ New podcast discovery, Phillip Picardi’s Unholier Than Thou.
Mental wellbeing:
“At some point, you’ve paid your dues. Months without sugar or caffeine or alcohol of cauliflower, months of meditation and books and creams, and you’ve finally suffered enough. You’ve sacrificed with just the right mix of humility and hope. Your value remains.” Amanda’s new piece at Harness Magazine.
Our brains are not cut-out for navigating how best to behave in a pandemic
“I’ve got these conditions—anxiety, depression, addiction—and they almost killed me. But they are also my superpowers. The sensitivity that led me to addiction is the same sensitivity that makes me a really good artist. The anxiety that makes it difficult to exist in a world where so many people are in so much pain—and that makes me a relentless activist. The fire that burned me up for the first half of my life is the exact same fire I’m using now to light up the world.” This quote alone tells you why we’re still in love with Glennon Doyle’s Untamed.
We’re discovering the benefits of teletherapy and they might outlast the pandemic.
Scented candles getting tired and In need of new inspiration for self-care? Chalkboard has some new ideas for you.
If like many of us you have been thinking about your mental and emotional wellbeing, we would be so so thankful if you took our survey! It will take you less than 5 minutes but will be hugely impactful for us!
Awe & Wonder:
How bookstores have stepped up as we’re allowed to step back into them again.
Our new favorite building.
Creativity & Culture
We’ve just discovered “illustration therapy” with Aww Magazine
Journal prompts to unleash your creativity
Hamilton. On Disney+. Nothing more to say on this one.
We’re planning to attend the Literary Death Match at the Hammer this Tuesday night
“You have the Rite”. Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s breathtaking spoken-word performance for TED
Doing Good:
Votes matter now more than ever. Join Fair Fight 2020
If you are not too exhausted with everything, this month is Plastic-Free July.
Support All Together Collective’s latest fundraising bundle (which includes our Filled With Feelings Tote Bag). This time 50% of profits will go directly to @play.marin - a local nonprofit already doing the work to increase diversity and inclusion in Marin through play.
If you have ideas for our next Content Care Package going out at the end of July, you can submit them here. Let us know what’s catching your attention and helping you through.
