In summary: (1) Family time is limited—cherish it. (2) Friend time is limited—prioritize real ones. (3) Partner time is significant—never settle. (4) Children time is precious—be present. (5) Coworker time is significant—find energy. (6) Alone time is highest—love yourself.

Mass shootings in 2022: U.S. sees more than 600 so far - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06…

The precarious plight of the middle class. “why are companies in the private sector so bent on profits that they don’t want to take care of their workers?” bostonglobe.com/2022/12/08/met… via The Boston Globe

This: A sigh of relief, then an odd sorrow about Jan. 6 bostonglobe.com/2022/12/20/opi… via The Boston Globe

"Google is funneling revenue to some of the web’s most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found." How Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation Around the World propublica.org/article/google…

Visualization: Teachers Are Among Most Educated, Yet Their Pay Lags census.gov/library/visual…

“teens who grow up checking social media more often are becoming hypersensitive to feedback from their peers,” Social media use is linked to brain changes in teens, research finds bostonglobe.com/2023/01/03/nat… via The Boston Globe

“In the 1950s, corporations paid 6 percent of the cost of running our country; today, that number has fallen to 1 percent.” The Republican con on the debt ceiling - The Boston Globe. bostonglobe.com/2023/01/22/opi…

Something is rotten: Exxon posts record $56bn profit for 2022 in historic high for western oil industry. That’s $6.3 million per hour! | ExxonMobil | The Guardian theguardian.com/business/2023/…

Article V of the U.S. Constitution sets out two requirements for amendments, and the ERA has met both. But despite achieving all of the requirements, recognition of the ERA amendment to the Constitution was blocked by the Trump administration.msmagazine.com/2023/01/31/equ… @msmagazine

Through a rich connection w/other people & a shared purpose, participants find an experience of belonging — a powerful bulwark against psychological distress. A group of grandmothers is helping the world reimagine mental health care - The Boston Globe bostonglobe.com/2023/02/02/opi…

The explosion of homelessness over the last decade can be largely explained by the growing housing affordability crisis. This doctor wants to prescribe a cure for homelessness : Planet Money : NPR npr.org/sections/money…

Loved this: “Attention is the most basic form of love. If you really give your undivided attention certainly to other people, but also to appreciation for the world-it slows everything down.”‘The Good Life’ apparently requires other people bostonglobe.com/2023/03/01/art… via The Boston Globe

“His failure to report the flights appears to violate a law passed that requires justices, judges, members of Congress &federal officials to disclose most gifts, two ethics law experts said. He also should have disclosed his trips on the yacht. ⁦⁦” propublica.org/article/claren…

Change in suicide rate, 2000 to 2019. The US rate increase dramatically whereas European countries decreased. ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-…

NEVER FORGET that Republican members of Congress proudly wore weapons of war. Weapons that decimate bodies and families FAR too often in this country. It's disgusting, irresponsible, and insulting to the many Americans who lost their lives due to GOP inaction.

“Republican presidents had larger deficits in their last budgets than they were handed at the start of their term. In other words, Republicans love to spend taxpayer money.” Research and quote by Teresa Hanafin