April 2020
Let’s skip the big intro since many of use have been living Groundhog’s Day for the past month, and all face an unknown future. Thank you endlessly to all of you health & essential workers. May we all stay healthy & safe - Eat, sleep, drink, zoom, walk, read, binge watch, and above all, play some great music really loud. Start with this fun & eclectic Spotify playlist ‘Dance Away The Pain (Pandemic Edition)’ by Rachel Syme of The New Yorker, who collected twitter suggestions of songs people simply must dance to every time they hear it.
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What’s The Good News / Action Steps
Happy Belated Earth Day! Yesterday marked 50 years, let’s all commit to supporting causes, climate, national parks and more - sign up for action items!
John Krasinski’s “Some Good News” web series is darling, including his recent virtual prom for 2020 graduates
Katie Couric can give you a simple daily news synopsis in her new ‘wake-up call’ newsletter (or instagram recap) to save you from that dark rabbit hole
Trevor Noah is doing great interviews with leaders on his Daily Show IG Live
Friends with the Indigenous Rapid Response Initiative team have delivered over 10,000 masks and supplies to the Navajo, Apache & Pueblo Tribes. Donate here
Female country leaders getting things done during Covid crisis
Animal fosters & adoptions are way up! Keep it going, reach out to your local shelter or rescue to foster and/or adopt, or even drop off supplies
The Global Citizen #TogetherAtHome global broadcast & digital special raised $127 million in donation pledges to support frontline healthcare workers and the WHO (watch music clips on their instagram page)
Hey you, smart person with integrity and vision - we need YOU to run against people not up to the task. Check out Runforsomething.net
Let’s Travel (virtually)
While documentaries may be your best bet, here is a list of travel-themed movies to temporarily appease your wanderlust
My kids book “To Be We: The Adventures of Owen & Lucy” is now free for KindleUnlimited + my Travel Oracles blog & podcast is back up with a new look
FYI - with countries lockdowns extending, many airlines have followed suit are canceling international trips, as far away as late Fall now. Air Canada just canceled US bound flights for through May.
Culture Club
NY’s Metropolitan Museum celebrated 150 years, see some exhibits virtually
Leslie Jordan is an unlikely 64-year old instagram star sharing cheer & stories
Fiona Apple is back with a new album & better than ever
Rolling Stone on the late, great John Prine and the late, great Bill Withers
NYer: The quintessential New Yorker, Fran Lebowitz interview
Sports fans: The highly anticipated ESPN/Netflix Documentary on the Chicago Bulls legacy “The Last Dance” is out and it’s fantastic
Tik Tok has pulled millions to the dark side, yielding a lot of creativity with joyful, silly, dancing videos, from young & old (and apparently a lot of doctors)
Need new-old movies? How about just nostalgic? I did a roundup of 80s movie power ladies, which I admit are kind of funny to watch now.
Will & Grace did an entire episode of “I Love Lucy’ skits and it was fantastic
An incredible life: Photographer Peter Beard “the last of the adventurers,” remembered
Fight The Good Fight
If you want international perspective on Covid, check out ‘Pod Save the World’ or this NY Times World round up. Also CBC and BBC are better news options.
Take a large sip of alcohol because it is corruption central in the USA, exposing some hard truths: daily lies from the white house & the Fox news machine, suppressing science, still not enough tests, Governors fending for themselves while others open too early (Florida, Georgia), senators selling stocks early aka insider trading, ignored pandemic warnings, billionaire bailouts at the expense of workers, the post office and small businesses (loan money is all gone), Wisconsin making people vote in person (backfired) while mail-in voting is wanted but ignored, Devos/company/pack-backed ‘protests’, unqualified people put on a WH panel to reopen America, a Labradoodle breeder with no public health experience in charge of the coronavirus response (for real), and more. So a few good Op-Ed reads to ponder over and see how this whole broken system can be remade:
Thank you for reading! Carrieamitchell.com
P.S. Let’s just have Stanley Tucci charm you through making your monthly cocktail