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A cool tool can be any book, gadget, software, video, map, hardware, material, or website that is tried and true. All reviews on this site are written by readers who have actually used the tool and others like it. Items can be either old or new as long as they are wonderful. We post things we like and ignore the rest. Suggestions for tools much better than what is recommended here are always wanted.
Selah: A Báyò Akómoláfé Reader— “When times are urgent, we must slow down.” This book is an essential challenger of all human conditioning, an existential thirst trap, tool, a teacher, a gift.
The Zone of Authenticity: Authentic Connection Cards — This deck of cards has helped me reconnect with my mother and father after years of distance. We spend one hour a month picking cards from the deck, answering the questions, listening to one another, sitting with each other’s unfolding authenticity. It’s playful at times, heavy at times, and an invitation to soften into new shapes of old relationships.
Blue-light Blocking Glasses for Daytime Use— As someone who spends hours a day looking at screens and suffers from headaches and migraines, these blue-light blocking glasses are a true lifesaver...and they are cute! Yes, sometimes it’s awkward to be the one on the video call with yellow-lensed glasses, but don’t we all need a simple way to practice giving fewer sh*ts what others think?
DIGITAL
An Existential Guide to: Making Friends — For you—you who some days (maybe most days) wish you were moss, you who find eye contact with animals pleasureful and eye contact with humans uncomfortable, you who struggle to answer the ice breaker question because you are every color, you who, at your core, only want to be held and cared for.
You, The Living — A black comedy that begins with this quote from Goethe’s Roman Elegies, “Therefore rejoice, you, the living, in your lovely warm bed, until Lethe’s cold wave wets your fleeing foot.”
INVISIBLE
hard on the systems…soft on the people…
Just a good reminder for us all right now and always.
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