I hope you’ve been able to find some moments of calm and peace during these distressing times. While the conversations we are all having are difficult and sometimes painful, they are essential to ensuring the change that is so desperately needed. If you are craving a little break this week, check out my favorite procrastination links from around the web…

• This coming Tuesday, June 16th, at noon, I'll be live Instagramming at the farm with Wisconsin State Assembly candidate Deb Andraca. Tune in for a peek at the stovepipe porch and a lunchtime chat. 

• Designer Sheila Bridges, whose stunning Harlem home I've shared before, just posted this piece of Wedgwood that will take your breath away. 

• I've been looking at the artwork on my walls. (Got the idea from the brilliant Alicia Zuberbier.) I have a lot of work by women, but not necessarily by people of color. Trying to order a print of this as a centerpiece to a new collage. 

• Interesting post about Paul Revere Williams, architect to Lucille Ball, among others.  

• A good listen while you're weeding: "Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is hopeful."

• Jan Wilberg is a Milwaukee blogger whose essays are worthy of a peacock blue silk binding. Read her here.

• Have you heard about Hawaii's feminist economic plan for COVID recovery?  

• Laugh of the week: Is this you when your favorite restaurant/bookstore/theater reopens?

Photo by Oliver Hale via Unsplash.