{"id":18528,"date":"2025-08-22T09:55:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=18528"},"modified":"2025-08-22T09:55:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:55:54","slug":"how-to-read-dance-and-recover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/how-to-read-dance-and-recover\/","title":{"rendered":"How to read, dance and recover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Even though this is the season of crickets and blackberries and we have just had our first Pineapple Express of the ecological autumn, the summer heat is t done with us yet. Today gusty winds are chugging down the inlet and they are warm to the face. A hot day is in store and that should last the week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sometimes you just want to read <a href=\"https:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2025\/08\/22\/the-cheltenham-to-manchester-piccadilly-adventure\/\">a little story<\/a><\/strong> about a collective experience of cricket, parties, new love and navigating half way across the Midlands of England by train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What does it take to thoughtfully read 30 books a month?<\/strong> 2025 Booker Prize judge Chris Power <a href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/features\/how-to-read-like-a-booker-prize-judge?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">shares his thoughts:<\/a> read whenever you can and keep notes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I adore Patti Digh as a smart sassy writer.<\/strong> She blogs nearly every day and almost always has something to offer that makes me say \u201cyes!\u201d Her line \u201cthe shortest distance between two people is a story\u201d is basically my entire work life summed up. <a href=\"https:\/\/pattidigh.substack.com\/p\/when-a-broken-bridge-is-a-signal\">Today she opens up about her depression<\/a> and this line landed with me: \u201cshame is not a motivator. It\u2019s a silencer. It makes it harder to ask for help, not easier. It makes you think that telling the truth will only make people turn away.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.honest-broker.com\/p\/the-importance-of-counter-clockwise\">Ted Gioia on the difference between circles and lines<\/a><\/strong>, the ring shout, holding opposites and why the Tesla Cybertruck is a coffin on wheels.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though this is the season of crickets and blackberries and we have just had our first Pineapple Express of the ecological autumn, the summer heat is t done with us yet. Today gusty winds are chugging down the inlet and they are warm to the face. A hot day is in store and that should last the week. Sometimes you just want to read a little story about a collective experience of cricket, parties, new love and navigating half way across the Midlands of England by train. 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