🔖💀 Read Here Stands Loss: Lessons From Victorian Mourning Culture.

🔖💀 Read What Happens When Death Walks Into the Classroom?.

🔖💀 Read Why Death Deserves Its Own Beat.

🔖💀 Read ‘I feel like I’m cancelling out her life’: the wrenching work of clearing out a parent’s home by Stephanie Wood (The Guardian).

🔖💀 Read Go Ahead and Laugh at Mediums. They May Be On to Something. by Sarah Wildman (NYT).

🔖💀 Read Is Grief Dead? How Digital Resurrection Technologies Affect Bereavement by Delaney Rebernik (Journal of Medical Internet Research).

🔖 Read What if we just stopped? by Dan Sinker.

I’ve mostly stopped. I rarely check Bluesky or Instagram. When I do, I deliberately avoid stuff that makes me angry. I go to NPR when I feel a need to get in touch with the news. I blog. I chat on Discord. I think my life is better for this.

🔖 Read The End of the Adventure by Drew DiMiglio (The Independent).

This piece about a local fun park closing gets at the importance of third spaces for teens but only goes into their loss a little. I’d love to see more in-depth writing about this.

🔖 Read Wake schools restricts parents’ ability to challenge books, citing new state law.

Wake is interpreting recent changes in state law to mean that parents can now only restrict their own children from borrowing specific school library books, not that books must be removed.

Good. Parents can still challenge classroom materials.

🔖 Read How unarmed 911 teams are reshaping public safety in nearly 100 cities.

My city has its share of problems, but I’m really proud of it for developing programs like this. Especially for launching the Stabilization Services division.