Curated links.

Favorite Article I Read This Week:

Inconsolable Loss and Overpowering Damage

Useful Article on Focusing More on the Things That Matter to You:

In Your Own Way, Oliver Burkeman

Useful Article on Writing (especially if you write short stories or novels):

The 22 Rules of Storytelling, according to Pixar

A Book I’m Currently Reading:

Because I’m writing more short stories these days. Story Trumps Structure, Steven James.

A Sentence, an insightful one, I Loved Reading This Week:

“Our humanity is worth a little discomfort, it’s actually worth a lot of discomfort.” Ijeoma Olou

A Paragraph I Loved Reading This Week:

“Whatever it is. However poorly it went. However difficult the last few years have been for you. Be grateful for it. Give thanks for it. There was good within it. Write it down. Over and over again. Until you believe it.” Ryan Holiday, Can You Be Grateful Even For This?

Etcetera

• When the shooting stops. Extensive research on the impact of gun violence on survivors in America. Very troubling. And disturbing. And haunting.
• The top 10 Black Twitter moments that gave us pure joy.
• The 113-year-old Black woman who went viral for dancing with the Obamas passes away.

Did You Know?

Ethiopia has her own calendar, which we call the Ge’ez calendar. The Ge’ez calendar is seven to eight years behind the Gregorian calendar. So in Ethiopia, we’re in 2015 right now.