WomenExplore Resource List, Spring 2023

 —collected by Paula Chandoha

Marcia's decluttering  course: Andrew Mellen  offered a five day challenge to clean up clutter.  From Robert Weber: Arthur Frank, At The Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness John Yungblut, On Hallowing One’s Diminishments, Pendle Hill Pamphlet 292 Connie Goldman, Who Am I . . . Now That I’m Not Who I Was: Conversations with women in mid-life and the years beyond  Rick Hanson. Just One Thing. Check this week -- https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGrcrxzDslJHRlPHjqgSQHLGPtB?compose=GTvVlcRwRrhVJmtPGMpCZxHWFnLlrRQwKfPVWVbbqrMdCjlBXwkdzQwmHtJbdPSFRKmBbbWMdMdNx Olivia Hobliztelle has a good list of resources on wisdom and aging on her website. Click on “Resources”to see Selected Bibliography: https://www.oliviahoblitzelle.com/ Jill Tarter on extraterrestrial, TED talk: https://www.ted.com/participate/ted-prize/prize-winning-wishes/setilive Film and panel discussion via zoom: Film screening of Home of the Brave — When Southbury said NO to the Nazis,  March 17-20  plus March 19, panel discussion on the film.  Register here for link to view film and to hear panel discussion https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/southbury/ Women forging a special space together: A Schlesinger Library historian gathered 10 women historians  during the 2020 pandemic lockdown to decipher an 1891 diary of four women on a special expedition together.  Amateur sleuths unveil the women behind 132-year-old Boston Harbor adventure journal (wgbh.org)

Article, The Marginalian, Robin Wall Kimmerer

https://mailchi.mp/themarginalian/moss?e=8d49b76b80 

The Marginalian is a source of articles on well being and culture with strong emphasis on art and literature.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/05/13/gathering-moss-robin-wall-kimmerer/?mc_cid=8b42268e4c&mc_eid=749c58947a 

 On the the birth of ecology:

https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/02/04/universe-in-verse-bloom/

 Climate Change: Interesting piece  

https://www.farmaid.org/issues/soil-water-climate/farmers-and-climate-change-myths-vs-facts/

Abortion rights in the USA:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/02/destruction-us-abortion-laws-human-rights-violation-un?

Spiritual wellbeing: The OnBeing Project: The Pause Newsletter (Sent once a week on Saturday) 

You can subscribe. 

https://onbeing.org/newsletter/ 

The Slowdown: Readings and interviews on culture, spirit, politics, literature, media:

New book by Dacher Kelner on AWE, Why we all need a daily doses of awe

 https://mailchi.mp/slowdownmedia/dacher-keltner-on-why-we-all-need-daily-doses-of-awe?e=750a8ee95a

Bill McKibben on heat waves: 

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-hotter-planet-takes-another-toll-on-human-health?

Podcast: Terra Firma (Colorado Public Radio) podcast is about the natural world and its sounds. 5 to 10 minute segments. 

 https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1147840005/terra-firma

Article, A discussion of time, modernity, being in sync with nature:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/13/saving-time-book-review-jenny-odell

Poem for spring:

                    [There is a section about a poet, Dorianne Laux, here.] 

Coming  by Philip Larkin  Listen Online     On longer evenings, Light, chill and yellow, Bathes the serene Foreheads of houses. A thrush sings, Laurel-surrounded In the deep bare garden, Its fresh-peeled voice Astonishing the brickwork. It will be spring soon, It will be spring soon — And I, whose childhood Is a forgotten boredom, Feel like a child Who comes on a scene Of adult reconciling, And can understand nothing But the unusual laughter, And starts to be happy. "Coming" by Philip Larkin from Collected Poems. © Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. Reprinted with permission. (buy now)