Year End Gifts For You

A non-denominational virtual stocking

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Amanda Stern
December 25, 2024

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A Non-Denomination Stocking for My Favorite People.

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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give

Winston Churchill

To thank you for your readership, subscribership, amazing emails throughout the year, and moral support when times got tough, I’ve made this last newsletter of 2024 a non-denominational virtual stocking and filled it with goodies.

A reminder that beginning 2025, this newsletter will be entering its paid era. This means that most of the newsletter will be behind a paywall. If you missed this announcement, you can read how and why I came to this deeply fraught decision, here.

I Made You a Psychology-Themed Crossword Puzzle.

Psychology Throughout History

Sudden overwhelming fear or anxiety; The How to Live_____; Looping cycles of negative thinking; Christiana Morgan and Henry Murray's Tower on the___; Shapiro who discovered EMDR; Albert who developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy; The mental beliefs...

crosswordlabs.com/view/psychology-throughout-history

Dispatches from the past to marvel over.

*Punctuation Personified* (1824)

Taking a child on a tour through punctuation, Mr. Stops introduces him to a cast of literal “characters”: admiring exclamation marks and militaristic semicolons.

publicdomainreview.org/collection/punctuation-personified/

W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)

Visually dazzling set of hand-drawn charts created by Du Bois, condensing an enormous amount of data on African-American life into aesthetically daring and easily digestible visualisations.

publicdomainreview.org/collection/w-e-b-du-bois-hand-drawn-infographics-of-african-american-life-1900

Modernity in the Rainforest: *Man and his Desire* (1917)

Handmade book showing Paul Claudel's scenario, with illustrations by Audrey Parr and Hélène Hoppenot, for Darius Milhaud's ballet *L'homme et son desir*.

publicdomainreview.org/collection/man-and-his-desire/?utm_source=www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=massive-list-of-dispatches

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