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Healthyish friends,
In last week’s list of things that were helping, I mentioned cry-dancing, but I forgot to talk about the other kinds of dancing that have been getting me through. Like last Friday night, when I danced for an hour on a Zoom party hosted by associate editor Hilary Cadigan and felt truly joyful for the first time in weeks.
This period of quarantine has already spawned about a million posts about dancing, from the rise of virtual classes to the joys of doing it alone, and what I’ve learned from reading them all is that it’s hard to write well about dancing, to capture the physical experience on the flat, digital page. But luckily we have Hilary, who writes as well as she dances, and who went all out in her essay about leading Zoom dance parties for the Healthyish Guide to Being Alone.
I have felt alone so many times before—in crowded rooms, in bars full of people, surrounded by friends. That’s what depression and anxiety can do to you, but it’s also just the reality of living in this weird, connected-but-apart world, where we bond with people and then leave them, always on the hunt for something else. We move to new cities and see each other less and don’t call as often as we could. Some of us get married and some of us have babies, and, slowly, without even realizing it, we break away from each other like icebergs on a warming planet.
If Hilary’s story inspires you to move, she’ll be hosting a dance party on Healthyish’s Instagram Live this Friday at 3 EST. I’ll be there, as Hilary says, “dancing like a maniac across the void.”
What else I’m reading this week:
At the height of the AIDS epidemic, an underground bakery in San Francisco was churning out thousands of pot brownies a month for sick customers. We got the full story from the baker’s daughter, and, given how many of you have been clicking on our weed butter guide recently, perhaps her famous brownie recipe will be of interest too?
Basically editor and Healthyish columnist Sarah Jampel pulled out the stops with this vegetarian dumpling soup that tastes like it’s made with chicken broth. Bonus points for the dumplings being gluten-free.
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