05-23-2021 - Sunday Night Check-In

Bookmarks to peruse this week

Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria

• New Insights Into Rejection Sensitive Dysphoriarejection-sensitive-dysphoria-adhd-emotional-dysregulation/)↗
• How ADHD Ignites Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria↗
• What Is Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria?↗
• I’m Not Overly Sensitive Or Dramatic, I Have Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria↗

  Theology and Philosophy

• Panentheism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy↗
• Panentheism and its neighbors↗
• Panentheism and the undoing of disenchantment↗
• Panentheism and Its Place in the History of Religion↗
• Panentheism(s): What It Is and Is Not↗

  The latest on COVID-19

• https://www.npr.org/2021/05/23/996272737/skepticism-of-science-in-a-pandemic-isnt-new-it-helped-fuel-the-aids-crisis↗
• Faced with anti-vaccination parents, teens are helping one another get Covid shots↗
• Life-altering:’ As millions cope with smell loss from COVID-19, researchers find new explanations and possible treatments↗

Israel and Palestine

• Jewish Americans are at a turning point with Israel↗
• Bloody bombing of Gaza puts Biden at odds with progressives in generational divide↗
• ‘Who’s out protecting us?’: Spate of anti-Jewish attacks in the U.S. draws calls for more forceful response↗
• Clubhouse Becomes An Emotional Meeting Place For Israelis And Palestinians↗

  1921 Race Massacre - 100 years later

• Revisit the history of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre↗
• 50 years ago, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre was a taboo subject when Tulsan Ed Wheeler set out to write an article ‘to find out what happened.’ He had no idea the threats and resistance he would face just for trying.↗
• Through a century of hard work and heartbreak, the spirit of Greenwood labors on↗

  Miscellaneous finds

• The “10,000-hour rule” was debunked again. That’s a relief.↗
• The Polymath Playbook↗

To listen to this week

• Reply All episode 171 - “Account Suspended”
• Lexicon Valley - “Does language affect thought?”
• Ted Radio Hour - “Warped Reality”

Seeds to plant and nurture

• Panentheism
• Self-transcendence
• Cognitive and aesthetic needs (Maslow’s extended pyramid)
• Flow

Unfinished/Unstarted items

• A History of God by Karen Armstrong
• A Book that takes its Time
• The Self-Love Workbook by Shainna Ali, PhD
• Self-Compassion by Kristen Neff
• Intuitive Eating, 4th Edition by Evelyn Tribole
• Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel
• Body Kindness by Rebecca Scritchfield
• Judaism’s 10 Best Ideas by Arthur Green

Things I’m wondering about

• The connection between laziness (or what is perceived as laziness) and mental health
• The intersections between external and internal motivations with regard to character development in storytelling
• The Capulets and Montagues - and how violence begets violence, on any scale, from the personal to the geopolitical
• Wondering how to get better at taking a break from the projects I’m absorbed in, and tending to my needs
• Why do the jokes that take me a few moments to understand end up being the ones that make me laugh the most?