Mixtape + Brain Backup, El Apagón, the real Montessori, White Lotus
12.23.22 - Last edition of the year. Make time to review your year. Top TEN for the week & notes on culture, tech, work, and play.
Hey friends! 👋
As the year draws to a close, many of you are taking time off work to rest, relax, and spend time with friends and relatives. We wish you the best during this season that is often a time of joy, peace, and celebration. If the gatherings get challenging, be patient and loving. It's a time of mixed feelings for many. On the other hand, if you need to retract and protect your space, don’t be afraid to do it kindly and respectfully. It's been a rough couple of years for everyone. Happy Holidays!
Have you been reading? Has Everyday Human nourished, challenged, or entertained you? Want to give me a gift? If you answered yes, share this newsletter with someone who will like it. Or better yet, add their email on the homepage so they get the next issue.
On Monday, we will dive deeper into what it means to reflect on the end of the year and how to approach the upcoming year. In the meantime, here are three questions to ponder:
What event/experience really moved your heart this year?
Who made you feel the most loved and the most heard this year?
What are you most grateful for right now?
READ 📚 WATCH 👀 LISTEN 📻
Every Friday I email a compilation (think of it as a mixtape) and the top ten articles, essays, videos, news, blog posts, and podcasts I find notably good and shareable.
The world has stopped on its tracks with the World Cup victory of Argentina in Qatar, the patriotic passion and joy for the team, the ongoing celebrations at the 9 de Julio Avenue in Buenos Aires and across the country, how Lionel Scaloni loves his son, and “The genius of Messi just walking around,” a fantastic piece from the New Yorker. More? Watch Lionel Messi - the drama of Argentina.
“If there was one thing Maria Montessori hated, it was play. She also disapproved of toys, fairy tales and fantasy. This came as a surprise to me. I had the impression – from the hippyish reputation of modern Montessori schools – that the essence of the Montessori method was ‘learning through play’.” Read more!
White Lotus really blasted the media with Season 2. When Season 1 came out, I had to convince friends to see it. Ohh, it was that good. Season 2 is also outstanding. Watch the interview with Mike White, the writer and director of White Lotus.
”The brain has a backup system": Why people missing much of their brain can miraculously recover?
Tune into ‘El Apagón’, a mini documentary by Bad Bunny, written and directed by Bianca Graulau that shows the issues that Puerto Ricans are currently experiencing with the constant power outages, the displacement from their communities, and the fight to keep their beaches public, the gentrification and how the government has put laws in place to make the island a “gold mine” for wealthy foreigners. Thus, creating the perfect bed for settler colonialism.
What’s the Winter Solstice, Anyway? Here’s what happens on the longest night of the year—in the solar system and across different cultures here on Earth.
For almost 160 years, a Cézanne painting had a secret hidden beneath its surface.
As humans, we spend a good amount of time thinking about what other people think. Why does it hurt so much when we get ghosted?
Read: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield.
Poet Melissa Lozada Oliva performs “My Spanish”.
Disconnect and play!
Have an awesome weekend! Send me comments, links, ideas, and questions. Just hit reply to my email and I’ll get your message directly.
Until next week!
Your fellow human,
-Jorge