The Writer's Almanac

Some advice:

Find some time during your day to visit Garrison Keillor’s “Writer’s Almanac” webpage. You can reach it from here through the “Daily Read Links.”

The Writer’s Almanac is a wonderful escape and a reminder during the work day of things that transcend the routines of our daily lives. Things like reading and writing and composing and discovery. Every edition of the Writer’s Almanac celebrates the births of notable and unfailingly interesting people, such as Alice Munro, Marcel Proust, and Henry David Thoreau, who built a cabin on Walden Pond when he was 27 years old; ”To live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach."

The Writer’s Almanac closes with a poem, which if you are lucky, will take you someplace else, if only for a few moments. I put on my headphones and listen not long after coming into the office in the morning. That is when I most need to be able to look beyond the cube farm and find some point of context for the rest of the day.

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.