Episode notes/references/links:

Cecilia Blomdahl’s instagram account about all things Svalbard: https://www.instagram.com/sejsejlija/?hl=en(2 months of full darkness, plus the Northern Lights)

Seasonal Affective Disorder - and the return of the light

Viktor Frankl quote from Man’s Search for Meaning

“Between the stimulus and response, there is a space. And in that space lies our freedom and power to choose our responses. In our response lies our growth and our freedom” (Frankl, 1946)

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

America’s (and beyond) loneliness epidemic (NPR story) and Health and Human Services also talked about this based on the Surgeon General’s attention to the issue

Third spaces (not home, not work, but an additional place where people gather) and how to rebuild them.

Old Swedes church in Philedelphia

Festival of Lights/Lucia

One World School House book by the man who started Khan Academy, Salman Khan

@‌itsthegarbagequeen (Alaina Wood): on instagram - uplifting climate reports/ways people are making a difference

quote: “you are not a hot mess. You are a fabulous, dumpster phoenix!” (anonymous)

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Music: “Into The Forest” by LesFM