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rain drops on a window with trees in the background

I feel better about the world having ridden home on the bus yesterday in the rain.

Normally, I walk home from the chiropractor’s, a healthy half-hour uphill. But to my surprise, I felt a light rain slowly starting as I left the office. I quickly checked my phone and saw it was about to pour! I had come out without an umbrella.

My favorite books of 2024

Photo by Elena Kloppenburg

 

What a splendid year for reading! I had a superabundance of favorites. It was tough to choose, but here are my 16 favorite books for 2024.

90 sweet, funny, kind, and imaginative sign-offs, curated for you

Photo by Sixteen Miles Out

A carefully curated collection of email sign-offs to delight—and use! 

Tell me, what else should I be doing?

Photo by Holly Booth

This week, my dear friend SB mentioned these two lines from Mary Oliver’s poem The Summer Day:

Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
– Mary Oliver

I instantly recognized this query as one threading through my thoughts over recent months—with a twist.

Don’t miss this book: The Other Significant Others

The Other Significant Others

I was introduced to this book via Ezra Klein’s podcast interview with the author Rhaina Cohen, an especially engaging episode because Ezra was passionately interested in the topic!

The magic of Ho’oponopono

Photo by Jeremy Bishop

This is such a beautiful forgiveness practice!

A Hawaiian practice for forgiveness or reconciliation, it works outside the bounds of imagination or understanding, in a realm of love and illumination.

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