Wonderbringers Newsletter with Monica Parker
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Lake Uru Uru flamingos by Reuters
Some wonderbringers for me this week:
The lasting power of good memories: A positive spin on our past can help protect us against pain. And we don’t have to only have happy memories. Even just finding a silver lining to tough times makes us more resilient.
How Mass Culture Events Are Uniting Us In 2026: Lately, a series of mass culture events has been pulling us back together. A small surprise in an age when the monoculture has dissolved into a million algorithmic niches. "Culture is meant to be communal. Without communality, it loses some of its essential impact."
The 1918 Flu faded in our collective memory: We might ‘forget’ the coronavirus, too.
The legacy of the 20th century’s deadliest pandemic shows how large groups remember — and forget — their shared past.
Wondermaker of the week: Dayana Blanco, a twenty-seven-year-old Aymara woman who has done what most people said was impossible: she mobilised her community to restore Lake Uru Uru, once one of Bolivia's most polluted lakes. She won the 2026
Future For Nature Award but the biggest reward is that the flamingos have returned! You can also hear from her here.
Sorry I missed last week everyone! I was making memories with family and quite honestly forgot what day of the week it was!
With wonder,
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