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A quick note to readers: A year ago, I met with Model Alliance Founder and Executive Director Sara Ziff to talk about the Fashion Workers Act. The bill, which would protect models from entering into financially exploitative contracts with agencies, was being opposed by a group of modeling agencies calling itself the Coalition for Fairness in Fashion. Ziff and her colleagues are still working to get the bill passed this legislative session, which ends in about a month.

Hello! Usually we share activity ideas on Tuesdays, but this week it made more sense to introduce a concept from this month’s book first. No worries if you have no intention to read Hunt, Gather, Parent on your own; we’re sharing some key quotes and insights in this 5-minute email that just might change your whole life. In the first part of the book, Michaeleen explains how many things that Westerners expect to be “normal”—like our parenting approach—really just reveal ourselves as the outliers when compared to the rest of the world.

My career and intellectual life have been built on the daily habits of reading and writing. However, in recent years, the practice of writing has largely fallen away, as I’ve devoted more time to public speaking, hosting the Making Sense podcast, and developing the Waking Up app. Incentives rule our lives, and my life has been no exception: For me, speaking into a microphone is easier, more lucrative, and reaches a larger audience than writing.

Welcome to Grand Prix Gastronomy! In 2024, this series is dedicated to cooking the favorite dishes of every driver on the grid. Chinese cuisine is believed to be one of the oldest cuisines in the world, with Chinese dishes influencing the development of other East Asian cuisines. That's because China was able to create organized settlements quite early, which meant folks could worry about things like making food taste good rather than simply acquiring it.

Several years ago, I published a book, It’s Not You, that describes how I deprogrammed myself from a dating culture that tells people, especially women, seeking romantic relationships that their unattached state is due to some personal failing—they’re too picky, too needy, too independent, etc. I talk about how I awakened from that lie and connected with the truth of myself and my life. Shortly after the book came out, I started hearing from people who faced different issues.

LETTERS FROM LOVE is both a learning space and a spiritual practice. Here, people come together to discover their inherent value and exquisite preciousness, and to learn how to write and speak to themselves from a place of love and friendliness. Self-loathing is a rampant virus in our contemporary culture — so prevalent as to have become the default setting in most of our minds. Seldom do we even stop to question whether it is normal or healthy to live within a consciousness that is constantly attacking, judging, and insulting itself.

Hello friends, it’s me, Mary Catherine: a once-blogger-turned-IG-cartoonist (?) who is now returning to the world of the written newsletter so that I have a personal space to share my work. Have I come full circle? Perhaps. But let’s back up a little bit… I stopped blogging regularly after having my second child, Teddy, in 2019. A few months later, I started making comics about motherhood. I was originally inspired to start making these comics because I was frustrated, overwhelmed, and exhausted.

Welcome to Moonbow! This introductory newsletter will hopefully answer two questions you’re likely asking yourself: What the heck is a moonbow? What can I expect from this newsletter? I’ll start with the more straightforward question: What is a moonbow? A moonbow (also called a lunar rainbow) is a rainbow that can only be seen at night. Moonbows are rare optical phenomena that occur when moonlight is reflected and refracted off water droplets in the air.

Man, I haven’t been this nervous in quite a while. This is my first post on this new platform, and despite 33 years of sports writing experience and seven books to my credit, I feel like I’m writing my first thing ever right now. Like, ever. A lot of you already know me and my backstory, but for any who don’t, let me give you a quick thumbnail bio: My name is Adrian Dater.