The Bridge #148
Six Years and Counting
Hello
& Welcome ! The Bridge is a newsletter connecting the professional and the personal creatively across cultures and a diversity of topics, until we are not only full of ideas but also ready to take action. Thanks for joining in the conversation.
Every year, we take a break in August, inspired not only by French tradition but also by Tricia Hersey’s Nap Ministry. It’s also a moment to look back and re-appreciate what’s already been said.
The Bridge #1
This newsletter was actually un-named at the time, 6 years ago when I started, and yet it followed basically the same format. It was friends who helped energize me to get started and who helped inspire the content, which is still true today.
The Bridge #125
Hello & Welcome ! The Bridge is a newsletter connecting the professional and the personal creatively across cultures and a diversity of topics, until we are not only full of ideas but also ready to take action. Thanks for joining in the conversation.
A year ago I was celebrating 5 years, and now I’m celebrating six, but the beauty is found in discovering forgotten treasures. Like, an essay I wrote exploring how it was to navigate my wife’s mental health crisis in summer 2023.
Reggie Watts
This guy really knows a lot about music, but he’s always improvising stuff (linked here is a recent example) that is designed to disorient you a little. It’s as if he thinks all of life is a joke, and…
I agree.
Playfully Caring for Our Planet
This essay (#15) is part of a longer series on The New Economy. In the New Economy, it will be more important your health than your wealth, more valuable the quality of your friendships than the quantity in your bank account, more inspiring our heartfelt curiosity
I did a lot of writing this year, but of things I published here on The Bridge, this essay — about a board game that won my heart and mind — is one of my favorites and one I want to feature again. It’s not a joke: I really do love this game.
Something Musical
If you want more music to listen to, this is a playlist with all the songs featured on The Bridge over these last years. Enjoy!
Vacation is always welcome, but it being different than our usual routines it can be a little disorienting as well, because of the changes.
But if we speak that truth and the other person hasn’t had that experience and so we come off as annoying, then should we have spoken the truth to begin with?
I’m about to find out.
See you after the summer break!
JPC 😎
I also think about the name I give something-