Monthly Playlists
December: 2022 Koontz Christmas Letter https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2jo1hLivhBnuCaQCfuDeBq?si=4581a38978db4818
November: Autumn from the Porch https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5z1wkXNM6jKibmI5Idi1wa?si=f42c86b785a94bab
October: 40 Years (for my husband on his 40th) https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7qXeOLpEBTjFTsxHqEUSY7?si=ab2b4ef2bc55486f
September: The Understory https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4wUbyj72ix71h8X2cx8rJX?si=7a4437d0b6d44e41
August: Strawberry Season https://open.spotify.com/playlist/00dnH3NMWMFFwSwMqI9Db1?si=3ed0b25f539d4478
July: The Elements: Fire, Water, Wind Earth https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4aDnhXJwRZrjggxbl9jxo0?si=2d8674aeb9c94eed
June: Taxi Feathers https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1oIvNxr8YAKoKZyTRiWwGw?si=076fcba504bc4bd7
May: Horizon Lines https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Oe1bEkMbGzapjXlwtlyhp?si=9271d8a78a3b4c93
April: Lemons, Melancholy, & Light https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5zmihlAqPKhm6JaYY8zKLi?si=04b4a7f742104414
March: Peacocks & Velvet Hens https://open.spotify.com/playlist/713gWLSbYzqGxFd8mXbT6I?si=61ffad3fa9394d79
February: My Captain Fantastic https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2M38rcf5ClOfEEwtrEZiSU?si=a7b6f837089048c8
January 2022: 37: Nostalgia & New Beginnings https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2utRLZAXZ16Q05VTDRaG9H?si=8430243abe8c40a3
December: 2021 Koontz Christmas Letter https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3QPAkEv58GnXPgyLfn8Ekp?si=c0c44d8d30664e19
November: Blank Paper https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5KZXIGjDaVgjz1Xy4iAlIT?si=1b242a88b30b4dd5
October: Autumn Light & Darkness https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0lB0U81R6sSzoK1cTnKLNH?si=79df01972c9b4806
September: Movie Moments https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Nql1VbG6H3LfnY5O9VMbd?si=6c7a8aeb254f42d5
August: Home: Inside These Walls https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6yE0yGEcZDum9xmUpOJ195?si=ea77b23aced1485b
July: America https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4zs1TZ2nBT9thKZbZqhOeS?si=48d839accf8d4bdc
June: The Gents https://open.spotify.com/playlist/17QUyC8A7sMrhsLAxxSqPp?si=C4LRsI9pRPK_IAuxMQ37jA
May: All the Ladies https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0QHNiH7ivE2cnujFGFSBZE?si=WEKgp0fUTnGF-m4WYly7sg
April: Birthdays https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2L0x85rAobmGOWxZSmLkwP?si=KzQlOTbDRNWznfahKGxseQ
March: The Times https://open.spotify.com/playlist/716ZSwm5rv855X68JTkOQ4?si=cldTcBUqRqC6w0v8MAyy9A
January: Annual Birthday List yYMQ0RzyELNMVf4YDrQ
Worth Revisiting
May 2022
I love that the more I open myself up to the world, the more the universe opens itself up to me.
Harnaam Kaur
April 2022
It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realized what’s changed is you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
March 2022
Encouraging curiosity, purpose, and passion will set young people on a path for lifelong learning. Such encouragement, more than test scores alone, will unlock potential and prepare children to learn and adapt…
Heather McGowan & Chris Shipley
January 2022
To avoid talking about racism can only hold our misinformation in place and prevent us from developing the necessary skills and perspectives to challenge the status quo.
Robin Diangelo
We must return to kindergarten and start to learn a way of life that is contrary to the way we approached things before–a way of life based on our own inner truth. We can rediscover the child-like innocence and wisdom that knows anything is possible.
Shakti Gawain
October 2021
Be a curator of your life. Slowly cut things out until you’re left only with what you love, with what’s necessary, with what makes you happy.
Leo Babauta
August 2021
You were losing your way and you were furious.
Carole Maso
July 2021
Connection-lite can provide us with fleeting, marshmallowy dopamine and oxytocin hits. And a vague sense of satisfaction that, tick, we’ve attended to some commitment or other. But like the diet version of anything, it leaves us hungry for the real thing.
Sarah Wilson
June 2021
I was wild until I was tamed by shame. Until I started hiding and numbing my feelings for fear of being too much. Until I started deferring to others’ advice instead of trusting my own intuition…I lost myself when I learned how to please.
Glennon Doyle
May 2021
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Carl Bard
April 2021
If we are to understand the Human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self doubt, extravagance of feeling guilt joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation both as Human Being and as Artist, we have to know all we can about each other and we have to be willing to go naked.
May Sarton
The trip didn’t change our life. The trip was our life, and it remains our life, forevermore. The trip didn’t change how we are a family; we are a family, and we are all changing, the whole time. For that year, we each got to be the scaffold around which the others grew. The miracle of the trip was that we were all together to notice it.
Dan Kois
March 2021
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin–real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
Alfred D’Souza
We might want to rethink our values. Reject certain aspects of the status quo. Reposition ourselves against the currents (raging at times) that pull us away from our own center.
Debra Ollivier
This was respect, I thought: to look and keep looking, not to look away as soon as you’d gotten what you needed. Respect meant letting your subjects get older, letting them get more complicated, letting them subvert the narratives you’d written for them. It meant having enough stamina and humility to say: I’m not done.
Leslie Jamison
We want these answers, these solutions. We try so hard. We wait. It is a mixture of dreaming Big and Far and then turning towards what is just right here. Right now.
Sabrina Ward Harrison
February 2021
In all our searching, the only thing we found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
Contact
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Robert Louis Stevenson
If what I say resonates with you, it is merely because we are both branches on the same tree.
W.B. Yeats
Your work must be underpinned with intention.
Seth Godin
January 24-30, 2021
Our judgment is self-protection; it’s a cage we put around ourselves. We hope it will keep danger out, but it only keeps tenderness and empathy from coming in.
Glennon Doyle
Gabrielle Koontz 