My little sister, who has been a Stranger Things fanatic since day one, was infuriated about this season. But I'm okay with a little Choose Your Own Adventure! That last scene was so lovely I simply cannot be bothered over plot holes.
I too LOVED Katherine Martinko's essay. It has been spinning in my head since I read it a few days ago. It's such a simple (yet somehow so hard) way to create connection and community. As I am working in our county in California with parents and educators who are passionately slowing down youth tech use, we are often talking about how community is the antidote to all this tech and how our in-real-life community building muscles have seemed to atrophy. I love the idea of hosting dinners - not complicated or formal sit downs where the house has to be perfect and the host bears the burden of it all - but simple and real get togethers. Sometimes it just takes that one person or family to build the container, pick the date and open the door.
I had never heard of Arthur Brooks. Now I’m obsessed. Been listening all day to his podcast. His insights, encouragement, specificity, and clarity about happiness and how we can be happier is some of the most concrete and followable advice I’ve ever heard. Thanks for telling us about him.
My little sister, who has been a Stranger Things fanatic since day one, was infuriated about this season. But I'm okay with a little Choose Your Own Adventure! That last scene was so lovely I simply cannot be bothered over plot holes.
Same! It probably helps that I am decidedly not a fanatic and was more in the school of just wanting the thing to end already.
I too LOVED Katherine Martinko's essay. It has been spinning in my head since I read it a few days ago. It's such a simple (yet somehow so hard) way to create connection and community. As I am working in our county in California with parents and educators who are passionately slowing down youth tech use, we are often talking about how community is the antidote to all this tech and how our in-real-life community building muscles have seemed to atrophy. I love the idea of hosting dinners - not complicated or formal sit downs where the house has to be perfect and the host bears the burden of it all - but simple and real get togethers. Sometimes it just takes that one person or family to build the container, pick the date and open the door.
Your last sentence there is SPOT ON.
I had never heard of Arthur Brooks. Now I’m obsessed. Been listening all day to his podcast. His insights, encouragement, specificity, and clarity about happiness and how we can be happier is some of the most concrete and followable advice I’ve ever heard. Thanks for telling us about him.
I’m so glad to hear! He’s just the best.