"with 1,153 studies published on it in 2020, mindfulness has been said to reduce stress, enhance emotional regulation, alleviate symptoms of depression, anxiety, addiction, chronic pain, eating disorders, increase attention span, improve immune system" 🙏 neh.gov/article/buddha…

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So, I haven't been on a book tour, but I always invoke Emily St. John Mandel when I travel with my daughter to soccer tournaments and go through "The Long Dark Marriott of the Soul." With a nod to Douglas Adams, of course. neh.gov/humanities/201…

Read Canada’s new literary star Emily St. John Mandel now — you’ll thank me ⁦Heather Mallick⁩ ⁦Emily St. J. Mandel⁩ thestar.com/opinion/star-c…

American revivalist preacher Jonathan Edwards was born #OTD 1703. Marilynne Robinson looks at Edwards and the Great Awakening here: bit.ly/3ivalTU

My colleague Steve Shook is probably the coolest person I've known. Four Cool Prints That Commemorate a Slice of 1980s DC washingtonian.com/2021/10/11/fou…

Check out the Fall 2021 issue online now! This edition focuses on crowds, community, and more. neh.gov/issue/fall-2021

"In time, the trio succeeded where newspaper reporters often failed: Making their way into the homes and lives of close-knit communities not known for letting their guard down.” Learn more from Rafael Alvarez: bit.ly/3BZnbk2

“Within a few years, however, the French Revolution would also show that crowds could be dangerous, even to governments that claimed to represent the will of the people.” Jeremy Popkin explores crowds in the French Revolution here: bit.ly/3kkzFg9

Explore the connections between Black capitalism and McDonald’s in this new interview with Local D.C. park mom, now 45!, author of The Pulitzer Prizes winner “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America”: bit.ly/305x0Qj

“... the garment’s purpose was to protect the wearer by concealing his or her identity...” @hstamler dives into Nick Cave’s “Soundsuit” in her Humanities Magazine debut: bit.ly/3mYM5Mv

“Part of the legacy of the Negro leagues is that the variegated businesses and partnerships developed despite isolation from mainstream culture and the obstruction of economic and political gains.” Read more in Drew D. Brown & Thabiti Lewis’s new article: bit.ly/3F0Xemc

#Writer Willa Cather was born #OTD 1873 in Gore, VA. Cather’s time in the Arizona desert inspired key scenes in her 1915 novel, “The Song of the Lark.” Learn more in this Humanities Magazine article by Mark Athitakis: bit.ly/3xHAyol

A new article to read from Humanities magazine! Supernatural America neh.gov/article/supern…

Thank you for all the warm tweets in my timeline today celebrating Sea of Tranquility’s UK publication day! I truly appreciate it.

"Astonished that they were now asked to develop the Navajo language to aid the war effort, the Navajo soldiers created the code in only a few months." Laura Tohe on the heroism of Navajo code talkers despite centuries of violent erasure & assimilation: tinyurl.com/42ks6rmu

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"The writers in these circumstances—for the most part in the Donbas region—try to find the words for war." Steve Moyer situates the power of current Ukrainian poetry to name & bear witness to tragedy within a decades-long tradition. Read more here: tinyurl.com/yemd4wxw

⁦My daughter was given this at school yesterday - dystopian fiction meet spelling exercise ⁦Emily St. J. Mandel⁩

Brazilian modernist multimedia artist Roberto Burle Marx was born #OTD in 1909. Burle Marx highlighted indigenous plants in his bold landscape designs & spoke out about deforestation. Read @TomCGardens on Burle Marx's celebration of botanical biodiversity: tinyurl.com/ycx3f9mr