It can feel hard to escape the bad some days. To not fall into that anxiety spiral. People are sick, businesses are closing, and everyone is fighting their own personal battles right now. Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has a suggestion for these tough times: Ask your loved ones, “Are you OK?” |
If you pause for a moment, you might find that the hardships we endure, individually and collectively, may be somewhat eased by the beauty and creativity around us. |
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“Sitting in a hospital bed, watching my husband’s heart break as he tried to hold the shattered pieces of mine, I realized that the only way to begin to heal is to first ask, ‘Are you OK?’” |
‘Never Think That You’re Not Supposed to Be There’ |
 | | Horace Bowers, grandfather of Kris Bowers.Ben Proudfoot |
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“People are constantly throwing up things to stop you in life. But you’ve got to know you cannot stop me.” |
I Remember When Rock Was Young |
 | | Elton John.GAB Archive/Redferns, via Getty Images |
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There have been many Eltons throughout Elton John’s life. But the one that resonates with Jennifer Finney Boylan is his younger self, the one she listened when he was just starting out: “As a closeted queer teenager in 1970, I found something in that voice that gave me hope. It told me I was not alone, that the fear of my secret self need not paralyze me forever.” |
China Disappeared My Professor. But Not His Poetry. |
 | | Emily Haasch |
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Joshua L. Freeman last saw his professor Abduqadir Jalalidin in late 2016. Two years later, Mr. Jalalidin was sent to one of China’s internment camps for Uighurs. Though he remains there, his silence has been broken by his poems that have seeped through the cracks. |
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