Some of my favourites and recommendations. Last updated: October 2021
Poems
- Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
- A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde
- Monarchs, Viceroys, Swallowtails by Robert Hedin
- The Orange by Wendy Cope
- I Am Offering You This Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca
- Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep by Mary Elizabeth Frye
- May We Raise Children Who Love The Unloved Things by Nicolette Sowder
- If Our Bodies Could Rust, We Would Be Falling Apart by Billy-Ray Belcourt (warning: mention of anti-Indigenous violence)
- Out of the rolling ocean the crowd by Walt Whitman
- Love and Other Experiments by Billy-Ray Belcourt
- Stream of Life by Rabindranath Tagore
- There is a pleasure in the pathless woods by George Gordon Byron
- Freedom by Olive Runner
- There is a field by Rumi
Articles
- The Nuclear Family Was A Mistake by David Brooks
- On Having No Head by Douglas Harding
- Why Boredom Is So Powerful In Your Life by Gustavo Razzetti
- Franz Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to His Abusive and Narcissistic Father
- Rethinking The Unthinkable (On OCD and Intrusive Thoughts) by Dr. Steven Phillipson
- Old coal mines can be ‘perfect’ underground food farms by Matt Lloyd
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind reminds us that everything changes, and life goes on (warning: spoilers) by Susana Polo
Videos
- Inside the Fight to Save an Ancient Forest by PBS Terra
- How to Overcome the Feeling of Otherness by Chella Man
- Philosophy: David Hume by The School of Life
- The Largest Star in the Universe – Size Comparison by Kurzgesagt
- Failing At Normal: An ADHD Success Story by Jessica McCage
- Home by Charlie Peck
- Identity: A Trans Coming Out Story by Philosophy Tube
- The Magic Art of Seb McKinnon by Rhystic Studies
- Is Rhythm In Our DNA? by Medlife Crisis
- Does Pride Exclude Disabled People? by Jessica Kellgren-Fozard
- Eco-Death Takeover: Changing the Funeral Industry by Caitlin Doughty
- Queer by Philosophy Tube
Short Stories
Websites of Interest
- Flight Club Learn about rockets, launches, and space flight
- Animagraffs Learn how various machines work through animated infographics
- In Pieces An interactive exhibition turned study into 30 of the world’s most interesting but unfortunately endangered species
- Life Stats Cool data about what has happened in your body and the world since the day you were born