Blessing Rounds and Things That Helped us Survive The Pandemic (aka link dump because my wife and I have been MIA from the world essentially)

The pandemic rocked our lives. My wife (who is a critical care physician) and I worked many shifts in the hospital during the surges that occurred in our region at the same time we were raising a toddler and a newborn baby. Here’s a slip-shod list of many things that have blessed me in the past few months and have helped us survive.

• Art:
  • To be both a well and a basin
  • How does design affect decision making?
  • Field Guide to Memory is a ‘keepsake’ game written inside your own personal journal
  • General Feminist-Friendly Anime Recommendations
  • The 10 Most Famous Filipino Artists and their Masterworks
• Medicine, psychology, and plants:
  • Boundaries for Your Soul: How to Turn Your Overwhelming Thoughts and Feelings into Your Greatest Allies
  • ADHD and Motivation
  • New Plant Parent: Develop Your Green Thumb and Care for Your House-Plant Family
  • MSG in Chinese food isn’t unhealthy — you’re just racist, activists say
  • COVID-19 Vaccines Explained in 4 Levels of Difficulty
  • Should Race be Replaced? Reconsidering the eGFR Equations.
  • Ten tips for managing patients with both heart failure and COPD
  • Psychology for your soul instagram account of Alison Cook
  • Bayesian priors
• Filipino culture:
  • Cried at this Olympic win/video
  • Filipino mythology comes to the US with acclaimed graphic novel Trese
  • Jef Cablog: Igorot Artist among 40 Contemporary Portrait Masters in the World
  • These Antique Postcards Beautifully Depict 1840s Filipino Fashion
  • A dialect in the Philippines describes colors as wet or dry
  • Filipinos in the back of the church
  • Online Tagalog classes for kids
  • Addressing Anti-Black Microaggressions in Filipino Families
  • Ancient Filipino writing systems that aren’t Baybayin
  • Filipino terms of endearment
• Faith, Justice, and Power:
  • Black Liturgies instagram account
  • The Power of Faith in Filipino Americans’ Fight for Justice
  • “Biblical” justice is based on God’s character, sees the human condition holistically, uniquely understands wealth and ownership, offers truth-claims that subvert domination, and offers a radically subersive understanding of power (I must say as an English major, I do differ from Tim Keller in that I think critical theory in general has more in common with biblical justice than not; just see the end of the article)
  • Five facts proving Columbus was one of history’s worst monsters: “de las Casas wrote, “My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature that now I tremble as I write.””