No politics, only Ramble:

• Austin Kleon’s 100 Things That Made My Year 
• Adam Grant on writing 100 Thank You notes to influential people in his life
• Two quotes on solitude:

“Once more I realize acutely that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one’s self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.”

― May Sarton, At Seventy: A Journal

“Let me now raise my song of glory. Heaven be praised for solitude. Let me be alone. Let me cast and throw away this veil of being, this cloud that changes with the least breath, night and day, and all night and all day. While I sat here I have been changing. I have watched the sky change. I have seen clouds cover the stars, then free the stars, then cover the stars again. Now I look at their changing no more. Now no one sees me and I change no more. Heaven be praised for solitude that has removed the pressure of the eye, the solicitation of the body, and all need of lies and phrases.”

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves

• Katie West and Better Than IRL 
• Kat Vellos and Connection Club 
• Loop, an audio-based group support space for talking about mental health (discussed in comparison to Clubhouse)
• Jocelyn K. Glei’s Hi-Fi Course and my strange wall journal:

• Finding my word for 2021 as part of my annual workbook. I use Susannah Conway’s Unravel Your Year, but I hear good things about Year Compass, too.
• Xavi Bou's Ornitographies 
• Courtney Martin's newsletter, Who are your seven?
• Tim Dee’s The Running Sky (excerpt attached)
• The Right Number

Happy seven years,

L

(P.S. The little surprise at the end is courtesy of Jarek Matusiak.)

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