Reframing the Holiday List
+ a spotlight on the CAMH Giving Hub and a reframing nugget from Maurice Sendak
Today we are reframing the holiday list. We're seeing lots of lists out there right now, most of them about getting people the perfect gift for Christmas and other winter holiday celebrations. Since we also like lists (we do biweekly lists for our Patreon subscribers — what we like to call Life Hacks and Enhancers), we thought we would make a holiday list of our own. It's a behind-the-scenes look at what our Patreon friends get on the regular, but with our own holiday-philosophical flavour. Less the perfect gift, more the attempt at getting through with joy.
Link:
Toronto Outdoor Art Fair: Holiday Gifts Curated by Meghan Yuri Young
Through Reframeables we want to build community. And we believe a group that gives together grows! The CAMH Giving Hub is our focus in this week’s “Looking Outward,” a recent addition to our Reframeables newsletter. We chose them because socially conscious self-care looks different for each of us. The hub offers a number of different avenues for giving and we appreciate both the options and the acknowledgement of how our personal stories impact the ways we show care to the world beyond our little lives. Their motto is “Turn your reason into action” — a reframing mantra we can get behind. And as Luvvie Ajayi has said, “Everybody’s well-being is community business.”
This week’s reframing nugget is from QUOTOMANIA:
Terry Gross: Can you share some of your favorite comments from readers that you’ve gotten over the years?
Maurice Sendak: Oh, there’s so many. Can I give you just one that I really like? It was from a little boy. He sent me a charming card with a little drawing. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters—sometimes very hastily—but this one I lingered over. I sent him a postcard and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim, I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.
Dear Reframeables: Let’s love each other and the world we live in that much!
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