🔖 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice is immensely valuable, because it gives you concrete actions to take in the face of our overwhelming and appalling reality.

🔖 Read recently:

• The Three Equations for a Happy Life, Even During a Pandemic
• Cosplay Is a Business and It Is Suffering
• Why it’s so hard to read a book right now, explained by a neuroscientist
• Bookstagram: The Antidote to Social Media Grift
• The End of Meat Is Here
• If The End of Meat is Here, What’s Next?

🔖 Read ‘A joyful thing’: the man who wrote his wife a poem every day for 25 years. I have a bad habit of idealizing other people’s marriages. This article isn’t helping.

🔖 Stuff I read yesterday:

• One of Oscar Wilde’s last stops in England before exile was a bookstore.
• Growing Without Schooling
• Science confirms it: Websites really do all look the same

🔖 Read today:

• 6 Ways to Maximize Your Reading Time During the Pandemic - I can’t tell whether some of these suggestions are jokes, but they all make sense to me.
• time for new rules. A lot of these rules work for me.

🔖🎵🎭📚 Read 8 Musicals that You Might Not Know Were Based on Books by Emily Neuberger.

I’ve been grieving the fact that public performances likely won’t be a thing for the next couple of years. I grieve it both as an audience member and as a performer. Neuberger’s book is going on my to-read list, as her main character’s early experiences with musicals are nearly identical to mine. The musicals and books she writes about are now on my radar if they weren’t, or things I’m going to make a point to revisit if I was already familiar with them.

I bet Neuberger’s book would pair well with The Secret Life of the American Musical, which acts as a Poetics for musicals, describing their shared structural features.

🔖📝 Read How to Write 1000 Poems in a 1000 Days by Nick Asbury. More why to than how to, this is a moving read and a great argument for making art in response to crisis.

🔖 From Austin Kleon: Not Everything Will Be Okay But Some Things Will I share Kleon’s frustration with platitudes like “We’ve gotten through worse, we’ll get through this.” Many of us won’t. But more of us will.

Storing links here so they’re easy for me to find when I need them during the next two weeks. Maybe they’ll help you, too?

• 13 things to keep kids entertained if quarantined for coronavirus
• Keeping Kids Busy for Work at Home Parents – A Coronavirus Helpful Guide
• Kids Stuck At Home? Here’s How To Keep Them Busy And Grow Their Brains At The Same Time
• Stuck at Home? 10 Fun At-Home Activities to Keep Kids Busy

More to come.

🔖 Read:

• Fake News and Instagram
• 7 Ways to Survive a Flare When You’re Chronically Ill
• 16 Simple Ways to Relieve Stress and Anxiety
• 11 Journaling Tips For People Who Are Absolutely Terrible At Keeping A Journal
• 10 (cheap and easy) ways to pamper yourself
• I Tried The Reggio Emilia Method, & It Made Me A Much Better Parent
• 19 Mystical and Practical Tools I Use Daily to Run My Business
• A Guide: How To Prepare Your Home For Coronavirus
• academic creativity in the here and now (Some interesting questions here about what life would be like if research had more improv about it.)
• The Creative Academic