Wonderbringers Newsletter with Monica Parker
View this email in your browser
This past week, December 1st, was World AIDS Day. As a child in the 1980s, AIDS held the world in such a grip of fear and misunderstanding. As a college student in the 1990s, I knew it wasn’t the shameful boogeyman it had been made out to be, but it was still a death sentence for most. It’s astonishing and hopeful to see how, in just a few short decades, this terrible disease is now manageable.
Sometimes, solutions to existential threats can feel impossible to imagine. What if, instead, we focused on existential hope? A bit below on existential hope, and a great book that got me thinking about it.
Some wonderbringers for me this week:
Listen: A recollection of the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
Read: Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close by Hannah Carlson.
I’m delighted to have been selected as one of the top 50 psychology books of 2023 by the Next Big Idea Club listeners. You can listen to my NBIC Book Bite here. Also, my conversation with cult expert Dr. Steven Hassan is now live. It was a fascinating chat about the dark side of wonder and how we can protect ourselves from polarisation.
With wonder and thanks,
Follow Me
Why am I getting this email?
Good question!
You’re getting this email because you are on HATCH Analytics’s or Monica Parker’s mailing list.
If you don’t want to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe at the bottom.
(We do hope you stick around, though.)
Copyright ©*|CURRENT_YEAR|* Monica C. Parker. All rights reserved.
If you’d like to change the frequency you receive this newsletter,
you can update your preferences.
Want to unsubscribe? That’s ok! We’re sad to see you go, but you’ll still be a part of our Wonderbringer community in spirit.
Mailing address:
10 Colosseum Terrace
London, UK NW1 4EB