This month, our founder, Jon Staff, is passing the mic to Sophia Li, a Chinese-American journalist, advocate and director whose work focuses on the intersections between climate and social justice to hear more from her on climate optimism.

I don’t think anyone would disagree that this Year of Covid has been uniquely stressful. But Stress Awareness Month isn’t just about recognizing that stress exists in our lives. It’s about differentiating between the kind of stress that can light a fire under us, and the kind that feels like it’s grinding us down.

I’ve been thinking about the language we use to describe our relationship to time. We spend time. We invest time. If we’re foolish, we waste time; if we’re wise, we budget it. And of course, we long for free time. Notice a theme?

After a long winter and the exhausting pandemic year surrounding it, good things are finally coming. Good things are already here.

When I find myself run down and stressed out, when I really need to get out of my head for a little while, I call on the wisdom of a guru whose voice has been ringing in my head for my whole life: Jimmy Buffett.

This month, our founder, Jon Staff, is passing the mic to Omisade Burney-Scott, founder of The Black Girls' Guide to Surviving Menopause to share reflections on rest and resistance as Black History Month comes to a close.

I was building a campfire at one of our Getaway outposts recently when I started thinking about rituals. Whenever I spend a night at one of our tiny cabins, no matter how cold, tired, or uninspired I am, I always build a fire.

When I think back to this time last year, and all the plans and intentions I had for 2020, I have to laugh—or as the old song goes, laugh to keep from crying. Maybe you also fell short of your 2020 goals, but here you are, still awake and alive. In a year of so much loss, that’s not nothing—it’s actually everything.