COVID-19 Spirit Resources

This is a web page of resources that I am collecting as the COVID19 pandemic unfolds. Click here to get back to the index.

Pieces that lift my spirits

• Hank Green on “the sudden obliteration of expectations”
• “Wild Geese,” a poem by Mary Oliver
• Reimagining social movements and civil resistance during a global pandemic
• OkGo’s latest song, All Together Now
• Puzzles I’ve made of my photos — you can play them online for free!
• A care package for uncertain times from the OnBeing project
• A lovely reflection on our emotions, and how we can engage them, by Susan David
• A powerful essay on the grief we are experiencing
• Resilience now and into the future
• “The zoom where it happens”
• Kids all over singing a Hamilton song edited together
• Parents are not ok
• Brooklyn Youth Choir virtual version of “You will be found”
• Another Brooklyn Youth choir song, this from before social distancing with David Byrne
• Coronovirus rhapsody
• The Braver Angels songwriting contest entries
• Howard Rheingold’s reflections on social capital (this essay is full of great links)
• Advice for nonprofit leaders working from home
• Met Opera to offer free streams
• Advice from someone who has lived in isolation for a long time
• Lessons from the Presencing Institute for this time
• Principles for ethical cancellation
• And to keep laughing — try Jimmy Fallon and Lin Manuel Miranda as they try to do a show from home
• A Coronavirus coping kit
• Pondering bears and hiberation
• Free coloring pages from my favorite social justice artist, Ricardo Levins Morales
• March the 9th, 2020: a poem
• “Super nasty cataclysmic COVID-19 virus” (a play on Supercalifragilistic)
• Maybe not so uplifting, in the winter of 2022, but a twitter poem thread from a health care vantage point