Musings

This summer, I’ve joined the Book Tok World. I’m sharing my recommendations of books I’m currently reading, or have recently read, and find meaningful and useful. Here are four books that remind me of the power of optimism, hope, resilience, and vulnerability. Each of these writers offers a different perspective, each one making a compelling case for how to meet life’s challenges with openness—and how to continue moving forward when things feel difficult. The Bright Side b

By Tom Watson May is Mental Health Awareness Month. It’s also National Stroke Awareness Month. I didn’t plan to be connected to either one. A few years ago, I thought I had vertigo. I’d been dealing with it off and on for years—dizziness, spinning, the occasional drop to the floor. I was wrong. What I thought was vertigo were small strokes. What I brushed off as inconvenience was something more serious. What I didn’t understand at the time was how closely tied our physi