We all need nourishment of one sort or another to thrive. With that in mind, check out this month’s recommended ways to feed the mind, body, and soul.
If you have a recommendation you think we should check out, send it our way – we’re always looking for new and interesting recommendations to share with our community.
If you love a good crunchy accompaniment for your morning yogurt and want your house to smell amazing, this granola from Oh She Glows is just the ticket. It’s so good you’ll want to double the batch (trust us on this). It puts store-bought granola to shame, and lends itself beautifully to all kinds of creative substitutions as the mood strikes you. It’s straightforward to prepare, but the ticket is to watch it carefully – in our experience, the only way to goof on this recipe is if you’re inattentive and allow it to overcook (aka burn) in places. Just pop any surplus into mason jars for storage and you’ll have tasty granola in your fridge for a month (or as long as it lasts)!
Pamela, A Love Story is a fascinating look at the life and times of Pamela Anderson, told in her own words, from her childhood growing up in British Columbia to her rise to fame. It offers an unflinching look at her notable relationships, including her marriage to rocker Tommy Lee, and the infamous sex tape scandal that threatened to ruin her. Told through personal videos, diary entries, and her own reflections, Pamela: A Love Story is an enthralling portrait of the incredible highs and lows Anderson experienced. It suggests to the viewer that reality is always messier, often more complicated and more painful, and always more human than what we see in the media.
Educated by Tara Westover is a memoir of the highest order. It tells the story of Westover’s childhood in Idaho, the daughter of Mormon survivalist parents who mistrusted government and did not believe in hospitals or public education. Growing up loosely homeschooled, Westover examines her early life in near-isolation in the Idaho mountains, working in her family’s scrap yard and learning herbal remedies from her mother. Her story is made all the more incredible by the fact that, despite her lack of formal education, she started college at 17 and ultimately obtained a doctorate from Cambridge. It’s beautifully told, and well worth a read.
The Retrievals is a five-part podcast series from the New York Times and Serial Productions and hosted by Susan Burton. It tells the story of dozens of women who were treated at a Yale fertility clinic. They underwent an egg retrieval procedure that caused excruciating pain; the fentanyl they were supposed to have been administered had been stolen and replaced with saline by a nurse at the clinic. For many of the women, their cries were met with silence and dismissal from medical professionals responsible for their care. The Retrievals documents how we understand and respond to women’s pain, and what happens when it gets minimized or dismissed by the medical establishment.
