If you need a little pep to your day today, go watch these videos. (You probably have already — it's gotten 10 million views in 3 days.)

• Some Good News


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These are not normal times. So for the next little bit, I’ll be coming to you more often, for an even shorter amount of time.

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Keep a low-pressure, ordinary, daily diary during these days of quarantine-ing and social distancing. Your future self will be glad you did, and your descendants will probably be glad you did, too.

• "A Quarantine Diary" Google Doc


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There’s one little thing I do in my daily routine that has nothing to do with “getting things done” or being productive. And I recommend it even in “normal” life, when we’re not social-distancing or otherwise going through a global pandemic.

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Right now we need to do our part to love our neighbors as ourselves, and that also looks like taking care of ourselves. Art is a great, soul-filling way to take care of ourselves because the best stuff points us to the true, the good, and the beautiful.

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You need art in your life more than you probably realize, and you need to notice the local art done BY your community, FOR your community, more than you probably realize. This is definitely true for me.

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This isn't about a super-fancy, high-end pen like you’re Mr. Burns and a Bic pen a store-brand pencil are beneath you. It's about finding that pen or pencil in your life that you care about — whatever it is — and enjoying the upgraded version.

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• Frixion refillable, erasable pen


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Because life is short; because death doesn’t make life pointless, it makes it purposeful. So what does it look like to take this idea and turn it into a habit? 

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This story is about romantic love, but it’s also about familial love: between brother and sister, son and mother, father and son. It’s about the love between friends; about love in all its depths of ordinary life.

• About Time


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These people are the only ones that matter — and keeping this in mind will probably help you keep the right things, the right things.

Plus, Tsh's friend Crystal hops on to share what idea is currently on her Good List.

• Crystal Ellefsen


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