Hello! Some lovely and/or meaningful things to share with you: 

1. Do things matter?
    
2. Tools: 1. Make any image into an emoji mosaic. 2. Make your Twitter feed more joyful. 3. A handy chart with the names of chiles when they're fresh versus when they're dried.
    
3. An essay from Meghan Daum about unexpectedly returning, at 47, to the same kind of life she had at 27 and (mostly) feeling good about it. "I did not know that the life I was living in my twenties, a life I was certain was a temporary condition, was, in fact, the only one for me."
    
4. Snow on the ocean.
    
5. A few years ago a friendquaintance (thanks Lindsay) mentioned she'd embarked on Julia Cameron's "Artist's Way" program, which I'd always thought of as a woo-woo hippie thing that probably wasn't for me (based mostly on the book's cover, I think, which I remember shelving when I worked at the local public library in high school; I literally judged the book by its cover). I was going through a particularly rough creative patch at the time so thought why not and gave it a shot, and it turned out it was sort of a woo-woo hippie thing but it also was for me. Maybe it's for you too? A new profile of Julia Cameron will give you a sense of what it's all about. 
    
6. How clothing can be time travel; Google Earth's Timelapse is a way to see how places around the world have changed in the last 30 years. 
    
7. One-topic Instagram accounts: Street gardens and Tokyo storefronts.
    
8. "Federal housing codes that barred fair loans from being offered to black people, as well as other forms of housing discrimination, rendered homeownership impossible for many black families, and arduous for those who could attain it. So money was put toward other markers of personal prosperity, the kind that retained value and could be passed down to the next generation. 'My mother never had a house,' my mother said again. 'But she had fur.'”
    
9. Auto polo, which used to be a thing, is exactly what it sounds like.
    
10. Recipe for happiness in Khabarovsk or anyplace.

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Laura

P.S. Jerbs: Strategic Communications Director, Assistant Director of Digital Fundraising, State Policy Advocate, Innocence Project; Senior User Acquisition Manager, Scott's Cheap Flights; Digital Organizer and Web Manager, SEIU; Senior Web Application Developer and Project Manager, XOXO; Newsletter Strategy Editor, LA Times; Editorial Director, Newsletters, New York Times; Associate Director, Global Resilience Practice, 100 Resilient Cities; Senior Social Media and Content Strategist, Food52; Gun Violence Reporter, the Guardian. Bye.