Off the Clock
You showed up for everyone else. Take an hour for yourself.
Life has been a lot. Maybe it still is. Either way—you’ve been showing up, doing the work, holding it together.
This is an hour that’s just for you. Not therapy. Not treatment. Just a book, a conversation, and a group of people who get it without you having to explain.
2027 Reading List
Q1 · February – March
Learning to Love Midlife
What if the 40s, 50s, and 60s aren’t a crisis—but a chrysalis? Drawing on social science and his own unlikely reinvention, Conley makes the case that life genuinely gets better with age, and offers twelve reasons why. Warm, research-backed, and quietly surprising.
Feb 10 · Feb 24 · Mar 10 · Mar 24
For anyone who thought the second half was the smaller half.
Get on AmazonQ2 · May – June
The Art of Possibility
A conductor and a therapist write about twelve practices for living with more possibility and less scarcity. Funny, specific, and organized around phrases that work as lenses—put one on, and something in your day looks different. One of those books people press into other people’s hands.
May 5 · May 19 · Jun 2 · Jun 16
The book that makes you want to give everyone an A.
Get on AmazonQ3 · August – September
Somehow: Thoughts on Love
Essays on love in its most complicated forms—for a child who frightens you, for a husband found late, for a community of imperfect people, for friends who are dying. Lamott at seventy: still funny, still bracingly honest, still impossible to put down.
Aug 11 · Aug 25 · Sep 8 · Sep 22
Funny, honest, and impossible to read alone.
Get on AmazonQ4 · November – December
Stillness Is the Key
The ancient world unanimously valued inner calm. Holiday argues it’s not mystical or unreachable—it’s practical, learnable, and available right now. Organized around Mind, Spirit, and Body. Short chapters. Reads fast and lands slowly.
Nov 3 · Nov 17 · Dec 1 · Dec 15
The quiet the whole year was building toward.
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