From Dr Edith Eger’s legacy to fake engagement and the quiet work of remaking what matters.
It has been reported that Dr. Edith Eger left us yesterday at the age of 98.
There are lives that stretch across history, and then there are lives that quietly reshape how we understand it.
Eger’s was the latter; rooted in survival, yes, but defined by what came after.
Her conversation with Brené Brown on the Unlocking Us podcast in 2021 remains one of those rare dialogues you return to, not for information, but for orientation.
If you haven’t listened to this incredible Holocaust survivor, the full episode and its transcript, are still available. It’s worth your time.
And then, in contrast to that depth, the digital noise continues:
6.9K subscribers.
180K views in the past 10 days.
214 comments.
And they’re not even real.
We’re not joking.
Our previous Substack article started to scratch at this surface – the strange imbalance between what matters and what circulates.
Yes. Really.
You can start here:
Simple Carrot Salad from Green Healthy Cooking.
Sometimes the most grounded things; food, habit, small rituals, are the only stable counterweight to a world increasingly engineered for distraction.
Also following on from another Substack we shared recently, “Tattoo ink induces inflammation in the draining lymph node and alters the immune response to vaccination” (PNAS).
It’s not alarmist – it’s simply another reminder that what we normalize, we rarely interrogate. More research is definitely needed.
We’ve added this into our Health Podcast resource this week.
Regularly ranked the No. 1 health podcast in the world. Dr Andrew Huberman, is a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Departments of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Rediscover – Rethink – Redesign – Reuse
Meet the four Co Down ladies fighting waste with creativity, one piece of furniture at a time.
Their Remakery Studio is a volunteer, women‑led venture to transform unwanted and unloved items.
The project has reignited their creative spark and opened the door to new friendships within their community, whilst helping reduce local landfill waste.
Further south, another version of this idea exists:
The Remakery is a co-operative workshop and hot desk space in South London, developing opportunities around the reuse of surplus materials.
Breathing new life into waste.
And maybe that’s the quiet thread through all of this.
From Edith Eger’s legacy…
to questioning what we consume both digitally and physically…
to choosing to remake rather than discard…
It’s all the same instinct.
To take what is given, however fractured, and decide, deliberately, what it becomes next.
” We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.”
-Native American proverb
Brené Brown’s Unlocking Us conversation with Eger is still there. The transcript too.
Start anywhere.
But start.
We started here.
‘If Carlsberg did Sundays.’
How beautiful is this?
Southwest France in all her glory on an April afternoon.
Welcome May. We’ve been looking forward to seeing you again…
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