Recovery Go-Bag
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It’s never too late! Catch up to stories and podcasts you may have missed from May.
Edith Zimmerman
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This new Edith comic offers . . . can it be . . . a shortcut to transcendence?
Gratitude
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Big if true!
Dad Shit
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Sad dads, a sad son, and a new podcast interview with Amanda Petrusich.
Sobriety
“Not only do I reliably know where I am when I wake up, I never wake up in pools of vodka vomit anymore. It’s so bad for your skin, you know . . . very corrosive.”
Ben Gaffaney’s Sunday recovery roundup asks the important questions.
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“My need to control always puts me out of control, and this book reminds me to accept where I am and how things are in the moment.”
Death
Ben Gaffaney on David Foster Wallace’s “This Is Water”
TSB Podcast
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Gratitude! Pema. Kim Addonizio. Two new songs.
Fear
And you know what, that’s just fine!
The Small Bow Family Orchestra
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May check-ins: feeling stuck, being patient, making progress.
Not hitting send. More poems. Stoics. Two new songs.
“Lean into the pain. Don’t turn away. It is our greatest teacher.”
New York City Media
How to moderate ambition. A call for May check-ins!
Depression
COVID returns. More poems. Montaigne. Jenny Odell. Two new songs.
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A follow-up batch of men who tell us what they're afraid of.
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Our next check-in confronts masculinity.
Gluttony is still my fav drug. Poetry compilation dreams. Tunes for goons.
Drunks
“I felt like someone watching a lit cherry bomb get thrown down a toilet.”
Love
“In a wine-drunk fugue state, I’d sent half a dozen emails to a Korean woman I’d never met, demanding that she PayPal me 500 American dollars, or else I would give the cat away.”
Poet
“Like so many, I grew up with broken tools for relating to others, and alcohol became the way I learned how to do that.”
Masculinity Is A Disease We Give Little Boys
More on the masculinity disease. Thomas Lux. Tunes that real men would probably hate.
A new feature about how people keep their spiritual side alive when chaos reigns.
What is that like?
