I haven’t seen my kids in three months now and it looks like I won’t see them for another six weeks.

(This is Joel’s friend, Wendy, by the way. 🙋🏻‍♀️ He asked me to write a guest letter. As you’ve already discovered, I don’t really do polite, I do real.🤷🏻‍♀️ But hello, it’s nice to cross paths with you this way 👋🏼…)

My kids are 7 and 10 and they are safe, but it’s a complicated situation.

To make a very, very long story absurdly short and (perhaps) over-simplified: Losing my everyday life with them is the price I have paid for being true to myself.

I live in California.

Ever since I came out as polyamorous and said I wanted to date other people…

Their dad (my not-quite-ex husband) has been living across the country in Florida with my mom for the past four years…

(Yes, you read that right, I said he’s living with MY mom…and, no, it’s not romantic, in case you were wondering…)

We had a remarkably successful business together.

And I’ve lost my stake in that as well…

But this isn’t a sob story.

This is a story about the beauty and the heartbreak that IS living a soul-aligned life.

Rarely can we see around the bend in time and know what will unfold in the future.

The best we can do is make the decision TODAY that we are least likely to regret in the future.

The decision that we can best be in integrity with — whatever may come to pass.

And that decision, for me, will always be the one that is in alignment with my soul’s calling. The decision that feels most alive and aligned. The one that calms me down or wakes me up, but never the one that numbs or deadens me.

It turns out, I love people across the gender spectrum.

It turns out, my capacity to foster relationships where we love deeply and share intimately is remarkable.

It turns out, there is only so much “trying to make it work” in Florida I can do before the cultural differences and social isolation start to ever-so-slowly suffocate me.

The divorce isn’t finalized yet. (We haven’t been able to reach an agreement.)

My friends tell me I am naive for hoping that he might be open to making an agreement that actually considers my needs.

Maybe I am. But can 16 years deeply in love really go POOF like that?

Evidently so.

But I am being true to myself. Every day. In every relationship.

And in my business, I inspire other people to be themselves, too. At home. At work. With their clients. With their kids. Everywhere.

At the core, I believe it’s what we all really want.

To be seen and known, to be accepted (and even celebrated) for being who we truly are…

What do you think?

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Interview with Elena de Lalla

Hi, I’m Elena. I was born and raised in Italy. In my 20s I moved to the USA to work as a flight attendant for a major American carrier. I quit after 15 years when I started hearing the sound of the call bells in my sleep.

Why I Stopped Microdosing for PMDD

Almost two years ago, I went on a 30-day microdosing experiment. But now I have stopped microdosing for PMDD and there is a reason but it’s not what you think. A hormonal mood disorder called PMDD had me bedridden with depression monthly and made my eating disorder recovery impossible.

The Antidote to Toxic Positivity Psychology

There’s a pandemic of relentless positivity going around, with social media awash with happiness quotes meant to inspire and uplift. After all happiness, calm, joy, peace, gratitude and contentment are all preferable conditions that we aspire to be living in more often than not. They are higher vibrational states, and who doesn’t want those?

Quote

“There isn’t going to be a turning point…There isn’t going to be any next-month-it’ll-be-better, next fucking year, next fucking life. You don’t have any time to wait for. You just got to look around you and say: So this is it. This is really all there is to it… Everybody just needing such little things and they can’t get them. Everybody needing just a little…confidence from somebody else… Everybody, you know, like reaching out tentatively but drawing back…it seems like such a shame. It’s so close to being, like, really right and good and open”

— Janis Joplin

Short Jokes

What do you get when you cross-breed a shark and a cow? I have no idea but I wouldn’t try milking it.

https://short-funny.com/

Hi, I’m Joel. I write this letter to you every Tuesday. My goal with this simple letter is to present you by way of an email. Three manageable selection of engaging, practical, and personal stories that make your day a little more pleasant.

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It’s go time!

I’m getting ready to jump on today’s live workshop with Ayodeji Awosika to show you How to Make Money Writing With Medium.com in 30 Days or Less

>>> Click here to join the webinar before it begins at 12PM Central <<<

See you in a few!

- Joel

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All you have to do is click the link below when it’s time to join and you’ll go straight to the webinar page:

You can register quickly here.

As a reminder, here’s a quick look at what you’re going to learn:

• How to get thousands, tens of thousands, and even hundreds of thousands of people to read your writing each month
• How to make hundreds (or thousands) of dollars in as little as 30 days
• How to attract loyal readers who will support your path to building a full-time writing business

Set a reminder for yourself now so you don’t miss when we go live!

- Joel

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Ayodeji Awosika and I are going LIVE tomorrow at 12 PM (NOON) Central to show you How to Make Money Writing With Medium.com in 30 Days or Less

Want to come? Just click the link below to save your spot (space is limited) and I’ll see you in just a few hours:

>>> REGISTER HERE! <<<

If you want to make money writing and build a loyal audience of readers at the same time, this training is for you.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

• How to get thousands, tens of thousands, and even hundreds of thousands of people to read your writing each month
• How to make hundreds (or thousands) of dollars in as little as 30 days
• How to attract loyal readers who will support your path to building a full-time writing business

Hope to see you soon!

- Joel

P.S. Here’s the link to save your spot

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How great would it feel if you finally made real money with your writing?

How would it feel to be one of the top Medium writers, instead of just making a few dollars like 95 percent of the writers who try?

If you want to make it happen, this single most important step you can take right now is to create a simple writing system you can use to write articles with viral potential and post them on Medium.com, which pays you when Medium members read your work.

Ayodeji Awosika, a top Medium writer with more than 90,000 followers, will be showing you how to do just that.

On Wednesday, September 21st at 12 p.m. NOON CST, Ayodeji and I are hosting a free training called How to Make Money Writing With Medium.com in 30 Days or Less

Just click here to register and save your spot on the training.

Here’s a closer look at what you’ll learn:

• How to get thousands, tens of thousands, and even hundreds of thousands of people to read your writing each month
• How to make hundreds (or thousands) of dollars in as little as 30 days
• How to attract loyal readers who will support your path to building a full-time writing business

Click the link below to save your spot now:

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See you there!

-Joel

P.S. Space is limited on this training, so be sure to save your spot now before the spots fill up.

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Hey,

Selling health is extremely hard.

Most people buy into it on the verge of death.

I read of a CEO who overworked his body so much that he started having seizures.

The professional advice was to rest for at least six months. One day he flew from one meeting place to the next eight months from when he refused the advice to rest.

The seizures became so severe he lost consciousness for a few weeks.

Waking up his thought at most, he can afford to rest barely for two months. He ended up resting for a whole year.

People magazine writes about rapper Rick Ross.

Rapper Rick Ross dropped 75 lbs. after he had a seizure in 2011 and his doctor said he needed to lose weight to save his life

Weighing 350 lbs., sleeping for just three hours a night, and pounding back 24-oz. steaks at 4 a.m., rapper Rick Ross was living life to what he thought was the fullest. But two seizures within six hours of each other in 2011 — which required his private jet to make an emergency landing both times — forced Ross to reevaluate everything.

At the urging of his doctor, Ross changed his diet and exercise and saved his life, losing 75 lbs.

On one occasion my mother dislocated her leg.

Arriving at the hospital that day in particular there was a bad road accident the hospital kept receiving people with severe injuries.

She said to herself, my situation pales in comparison to any of these. She left without treatment. She suffered severe complications because of this choice.

Severe or light symptoms both deserve treatment.

Until next Tuesday.

 — Joel

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Sometimes I Hate Being a Woman

I’m breaking my silence about my experience with harassment from men

Letter to My Ex Boyfriend Telling Him How I Feel

It’s April, 2024. I woke up feeling heavy. I rush to the bedside, grab a sheet of paper. And scribble down before the thought leaves me. It was almost like I wanted to write down the letter before I lost the nerve to send it again.

25 Ideas You Can Steal From My 25 Life Lessons

Whether you are enjoying your day or celebrating an event in this beautiful day, still, life is full of experiences and lessons to offer. Here are 25 ideas you can start going on for yourself from looking at my life lessons.

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“We…Russia…want to be a nation of peace. Alas, few people would call us that now. But let’s at least not become a nation of frightened silent people. Of cowards who pretend not to notice the aggressive war against Ukraine unleashed by our obviously insane czar. I cannot, do not want and will not remain silent watching how pseudo-historical nonsense about the events of 100 years ago has become an excuse for Russians to kill Ukrainians, and for Ukrainians to kill Russians while defending themselves. It’s the third decade of the 21st century, and we are watching news about people burning down in tanks and bombed houses. We are watching real threats to start a nuclear war on our TVs. I am from the USSR myself. I was born there. And the main phrase from there…from my childhood…was ‘fight for peace.’ I call on everyone to take to the streets and fight for peace. Putin is not Russia. And if there is anything in Russia right now that you can be most proud of, it is those 6,824 people who were detained because…without any call…they took to the streets with placards saying ‘No War.’ They say that someone who cannot attend a rally and does not risk being arrested for it cannot call for it. I’m already in prison, so I think I can. We cannot wait any longer. Wherever you are, in Russia, Belarus or on the other side of the planet, go to the main square of your city every weekday and at 2 pm on weekends and holidays. If you are abroad, come to the Russian embassy. If you can organise a demonstration, do so on the weekend. Yes, maybe only a few people will take to the streets on the first day. And in the second…even less. But we must, gritting our teeth and overcoming fear, come out and demand an end to the war. Each arrested person must be replaced by two newcomers. If in order to stop the war we have to fill prisons and paddy wagons with ourselves, we will fill prisons and paddy wagons with ourselves. Everything has a price, and now, in the spring of 2022, we must pay this price. There’s no one to do it for us. Let’s not ‘be against the war.’ Let’s fight against the war.”

— Alexei Navalny

Short Jokes

What do you get when you cross-breed a shark and a cow? I have no idea but I wouldn’t try milking it.

https://short-funny.com/

Hi, I’m Joel. I write this letter to you every Tuesday. My goal with this simple letter is to present you by way of an email. Three manageable selection of engaging, practical, and personal stories that make your day a little more pleasant.

What is Buibui?

Buibui is where the conversations from Beyourself publication are taken further — with in-depth stories with some of the beyourself authors, more personal stories, and relevant courses for Beyourself readers. Brought to you by the same people behind beyourself publication. Will you give it a try today and read from there too? Click here to head there

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A conversation on men harassment, letter to ex, ideas you can steal from my life lessons was originally published in Be Yourself on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Hey,

Thank you so much for your patience with me.

I have been silent for a handful of weeks.

I’m thankful to report I am now returning to my usual pace.

1.

I have been preparing to release a refurbished writing course. The first lessons I wrote six years ago. To date, it has helped ferry 4,389 writers ashore away from the sea of mediocrity and wish-washy writing.

God willing to be open for enrollment in late March or early April.

2.

Next Tuesday, I will release three magazine issues to make up for January, February, and March.

I have been trying to have audio versions accompanying these releases. Finger crossed, I believe it will come together nicely.

3.

The other day I was just looking back at the archive of this letter I send to you. I have been sending it almost every Tuesday since 2016. I found a handful of favorite letters in there.

I might release a limited edition collection of the best of the best as an ebook.

Until next Tuesday.

 — Joel

P.S.
I run a community called Buibui. It’s a community that gives the courage to speak up to the horror-stricken. Extending options to survivors. Benefiting the outcast. Shelter to the hushed, ignored and oppressed. Not a perfect community but a home. If you’re looking to support a community like this. Consider paying $7.99 per month and joining the community. You get extra features. But the stories stays free for everyone else. Click here to learn more.

End procrastination

There is procrastination as in everyday trouble to get started. There is procrastination as in trouble finishing things. And there is procrastination as a weeklong, monthlong, yearlong, self-harming self-torture. The first two are annoying but common. The last one can threaten your very existence.

The love story story

Neither psychology nor anthropology fully understand love: only history sees that it’s all about the time and the telling

Slow sex, long life

For more than 1,000 years, the Imperial Family of Japan and its physicians have preserved a treasure of oriental medicine: the complete 30 scrolls of the Ishinhō, or the ‘heart of medical prescription’. This compendium was derived from sources in India, China, Korea and elsewhere, though many of the original documents have since been lost or destroyed. In 2012, I found myself in the Imperial Archives in the Tokyo Palace examining the precious scrolls.

Quote

“A not-too-distant explosion shakes the house, the windows rattle in their sockets… Each time this happens I find myself thinking, ‘Is it possible that human beings can continue with this lunacy very much longer?’ You know the answer, of course.”

— George Orwell

What is Buibui?

Buibui is where the conversations from Beyourself publication are taken further — with in-depth stories with some of the beyourself authors, more personal stories, and relevant courses for Beyourself readers. Brought to you by the same people behind beyourself publication. Will you give it a try today and read from there too? Click here to head there

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Hi, I’m Joel. I write this letter to you every Tuesday. My goal with this simple letter is to present you by way of email. A manageable selection of engaging, practical, and personal stories that make your day a little more

A conversation on procrastination, sex, and love making was originally published in Be Yourself on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Hey,

Years back, I was interviewing a man.

What a sniveling wuss I will tell myself. Your situation is beneath this man. He was shot, killed, and resurrected. His situation is an optimal definition of trauma, so I thought.

Here is Josh explaining bits of his situation.

To display how severe my injury was I was one of the only ones in that entire hospital that was expected to make a full recovery. And the image that I will never forget, and I and I never want to, is, I walked around a corner one day. And saw this beautiful young blonde girl in her early 20s.

Pushing around her new double-amputee fiance in a wheelchair. It’s an image that just riveted me.

So the guilt I was experiencing. Wasn’t grounded in losing staff sergeant Marlon Harper. The former survivor’s guilt where he died, and I lived.

The guilt was in my ability to heal when others couldn’t, so that’s a very distinct difference.

It may seem like I’m splitting hairs, but when it comes to resolving trauma making that distinction is crucial.

We as human beings have a natural tendency to compare our experiences with other people. And when it comes to trauma I encourage everybody to avoid the urge to do that.

Years ago when I started speaking.

The very common response I would get after a talk. If somebody will come up to me they will be hit by the talk in a positive way. But they will start their conversations by saying you know Josh I haven’t been through anything you’ve been through but and then they tell their experiences.

But this is precisely what we wanna try to avoid.

The point is when I start to compare myself with other people. I am almost minimizing my own experiences and my pain.

You don’t need to be resurrected from the dead to be in pain. For all of us healing is a journey never a fixed point in time.

When it comes to integrating these experiences into our lives. While it’s crucial to depend on the support of those around us in difficult times. It’s a very internal journey it’s a very internal process and that’s needed because. All of us are different.

All of us have been raised differently.

Trauma’s very cumulative.

What I mean by the accumulative effect of trauma is when we move forward in our lives without resolving or integrating past traumatic experiences, it’s almost like we’re trying to build a house on a cracked foundation.

We don’t necessarily know that there’s a crack there at first.

But the more that we continue to build upon that house without repairing the crack.

We never really know what type of experience or situation is going to cause it to collapse one day even if it’s something insignificant or seemingly insignificant on the surface.

So regardless of how we’re responding to the present moment.

There’s usually much more behind it than what’s in front of us.

The process here is being able to do that investigative work into our past lives to understand.

Not to fault not to blame, not to make excuses, but simply to understand why we’re responding the way we are in the present moment.

And that knowledge when it’s integrated can give us the power to transform and to move forward.

There is no amount you must suffer to have permission to heal.

If you have pain, you deserve to heal. If you have anger or guilt from the past, you deserve to heal. If you are protecting yourself from past pain in ways that are causing you, even more, pain in the present, you deserve to heal.

Yes, there will always be a greater horror story. But your loss is not negated by someone else’s.

You deserve to heal.

The thirteenth issue is released today click here to learn more, not for everyone, it’s to those who believe they will enjoy their lives despite that it’s bad, it’s calamit we live to fight another day.

Until next Tuesday.

 — Joel

P.S.
I run a community called Buibui. It’s a community that gives the courage to speak up to the horror-stricken. Extending options to survivors. Benefiting the outcast. Shelter to the hushed, ignored and oppressed. Not a perfect community but a home. If you’re looking to support a community like this. Consider paying $7.99 per month and joining the community. You get extra features. But the community stays free for everyone else. Click here to learn more.

Did I have panic attacks for no reason?

“It looks like your son’s having a heart attack”. These were the words I heard from the paramedic as he spoke quietly to my parents while I lay across our sofa, frightened and afraid. It’s hard to convey what it feels like to have a panic attack to someone who’s never experienced them before. It might sound completely illogical to think that you are about to die, when in fact you’re not in any real physical danger whatsoever. However, if you’re the person to whom it’s happening, it’s exactly what runs through your mind at that moment. It makes logical sense that something is about to go wrong, and you are on your way to meeting your fate.

Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Symptoms: A Day in My Life

I wake up and feel like my entire body has been hit by a bus. My muscles are stiff and sore, and quite frankly I can’t be faked to move. My head is fuzzy, the never-ending hangover continues and my joints click, cluck and crack beneath my feet. My eyesight is a little less blurry today, hallah bloody fucking looyah. The pressure in my head and ears is pretty intense. It sounds the sea is swirling in my right ear, swooooooooooosh swoooooosh. My jaw is in fuking agony.

Six wisdom on how to be a person

In this commencement speech, given on December 18th, 1988 at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Nobel-prize winning poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky, shares 6 kernels of wisdom on how to be a person in the world. The speech is included in the 1997 collection On Grief and Reason: Essays by Joseph Brodsky.

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“My approach to what I do in my job…and it might even be the approach to my life…is that everything I do is the most important thing I do. Whether it’s a play or the next film. It is the most important thing. I know it’s not going to be the most important thing, and it might not be close to being the best, but I have to make it the most important thing. That means I will be ambitious with my job and not with my career. That’s a very big difference…because if I’m ambitious with my career, everything I do now is just stepping-stones leading to something…a goal I might never reach, and so everything will be disappointing. But if I make everything important, then eventually it will become a career. Big or small, we don’t know. But at least everything was important.”

— Mads Mikkelsen

What is Buibui?

Buibui is where the conversations from Beyourself publication are taken further — with in-depth stories with some of the beyourself authors, more personal stories, and relevant courses for Beyourself readers. Brought to you by the same people behind beyourself publication. Will you give it a try today and read from there too? Click here to head there

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Hi, I’m Joel. I write this letter to you every Tuesday. My goal with this simple letter is to present you by way of email. A manageable selection of engaging, practical, and personal stories that make your day a little more

A Conversation On Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, Panic Attacks, and more was originally published in Be Yourself on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Hey,

This new year is slow-paced to me. How is it to you?

1. I have released a new issue delayed for two weeks but it’s here now. Next week I will release another issue. Click here to learn more.
2. I have also released an essential audio guide to trauma self-care to aid you in keeping your life mojo strong. Click here to learn more.
3. I will start to create a how-to guide on my domain next week. The coming guide will be on membership as a business.
4. I will also love to release written interviews per week this year from people like you. I have a handful already scheduled.
5. I am so relieved the design change I did is stable. I lost lots of hours on troubleshooting last year I hope it won’t happen again.

I am curious. What areas of your life are you hoping to make progress this year?

Until next Tuesday.

 — Joel

P.S.
I run a community called Buibui. It’s a community that gives the courage to speak up to the horror-stricken. Extending options to survivors. Benefiting the outcast. Shelter to the hushed, ignored and oppressed. Not a perfect community but a home. If you’re looking to support a community like this. Consider paying $7.99 per month and joining the community. You get extra features. But the community stays free for everyone else. Click here to learn more.

My Bulimia Before and After Psychedelics

Two years ago, I was living the perfect life. I had a prestigious job as a strategy consultant and lived in New York, my favorite city. I had a vibrant social life and a loving family. I traveled lavishly and was surrounded by beauty.

I was also living a double life.

My second life was ugly.

I was frantically binging and purging hundreds of dollars of food every week. I was numbing myself with alcohol, drugs, and shopping. Once a month, I found myself bed-ridden with severe depression.

How to Live with PCOS

At the time I am writing this, I am 26 weeks pregnant. And while I have engulfed myself in the world of pregnancy videos, parenting books, and a whole lot of nesting; it did not occur to me to reflect back on my ‘getting pregnant’ journey until my husband recently reminded me, of how a lot of our conversations before getting pregnant revolved around alternative options, in case, a natural conception seemed impossible or unlikely.

And this is the problem with a pessimistic brain.

At the age of 18, I was diagnosed with PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome), and as I went ahead with my studies to become a doctor, my brain kept registering and memorizing, every possible negative symptom associated with the disease.

The biggest concern is, as it is with a gynecological disorder, infertility.

Interview: Bill Soistmann

Last question. What kind of legacy do you hope to leave?
I’d like to know that there are people who learned something from my experience and that those lessons had a positive impact on their family and friends.

Quote

“Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them.”

— Charles Bukowski

What is Buibui?

Buibui is where the conversations from Beyourself publication are taken further — with in-depth stories with some of the beyourself authors, more personal stories, and relevant courses for Beyourself readers. Brought to you by the same people behind beyourself publication. Will you give it a try today and read from there too? Click here to head there

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The Note — is a manageable selection (3 items) of engaging, practical, and personal stories that make your day a little more pleasant.

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Hi, I’m Joel. I write this letter to you every Tuesday. My goal with this simple letter is to present you by way of email. A manageable selection of engaging, practical, and personal stories that make your day a little more

How to Live with PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) was originally published in Be Yourself on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Hey,

I recently enjoyed watching a handful of movies:

1.
Space sweepers
Fun, comedic, and a well-paced story. I could easily watch this as a Tv show. This movie streams on Netflix right now.

2.
Boss Level
Frank Grillo plays Roy Pulver, a retired soldier, stuck in a time loop. It is a sci-fi movie laced with lots of dark comedy.

3.
The Mitchell’s vs the Machines
A quirky, dysfunctional family’s road trip takes a turn for the worst amidst the robots apocalypse. I enjoyed mostly the quirky family premise of this movie. Lovely watch.

On other news.

My marriag engagement was a success. She said yes.

I will release a trauma audio show to paying members later today. A chance to purchase for everyone else will come next week. I will release a new magazine issue in the same week with its accompanying audio. To be purchased together at a limited time after they will sell separately.

Enjoy today’s picked stories.

Until next Tuesday.

 — Joel

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What happens when we talk to animals?

When the crow whisperer appeared at the side gate to Adam Florin and Dani Fisher’s house, in Oakland, California, she was dressed head to toe in black, wearing a hoodie, gloves, and a mask. This was a few weeks into the coronavirus lockdown, so Adam initially took her garb to be a sign of precautionary vigilance. In fact, it was a disguise. “It’s so the crows don’t recognize me and — no offense — start associating me with you.

There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing

The neglected middle child of mental health can dull your motivation and focus — and it may be the dominant emotion of 2021.

The lie of “expired” food and the disastrous truth of America’s food waste problem

Maybe you know the routine. Every so often, I go through my refrigerator, check labels on the items, and throw out anything that’s a month, or a week, or maybe a few days past the date on the label. I might stop to sniff, but for my whole adult life, I’ve figured that the problem was obvious — my jam or almond milk or package of shredded Italian cheese blend had “expired” — and the fix was simple: Into the garbage it goes.

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“I think if you can take care of yourself, and then maybe try to take care of someone else, that’s sort of how you’re supposed to live.”

— Bill Murray

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Disclaimer

The Note — is a manageable selection (3 items) of engaging, practical, and personal stories that make your day a little more pleasant.

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Hi, I’m Joel. I write this letter to you every Tuesday. My goal with this simple letter is to present you by way of email. A manageable selection of engaging, practical, and personal stories that make your day a little more pleasant.

What happens when we talk to animals? was originally published in Be Yourself on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.