Monica Parker
@monicacparker.bsky.social
Author, speaker, researcher, Wonderbringer. Studying if altered states of wonder make better leaders. Follow for wonderbased research & rocket fuel 🚀
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Monica Parker
@monicacparker.bsky.social
· May 14
Keir Starmer is my MP. This is the letter I wrote to him today.
Subject: Island of Strangers?
Mr Starmer,
Let me tell you about this ‘stranger’.
Subject: Island of Strangers?
Mr Starmer,
Let me tell you about this ‘stranger’.
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“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
www.newyorker.com
August 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
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Stunning photo essay which powerfully demonstrates the pain families separated by huge visa fees experience. With a govt review due photographer Frankie Mills & @rfuk.bsky.social tell the stories of those whose lives are turned upside down by this hostile policy
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
In limbo: families hoping for change to UK income rules for spousal visas
Photographer Frankie Mills documents the lives of nine families whose stories illustrate the human cost of this policy threshold
www.theguardian.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Stunning photo essay which powerfully demonstrates the pain families separated by huge visa fees experience. With a govt review due photographer Frankie Mills & @rfuk.bsky.social tell the stories of those whose lives are turned upside down by this hostile policy
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
I went to uni in Miami in the 90s. What a walk down memory lane this was!!!
Lums once served beer-steamed hot dogs in Miami, while CocoWalk and Bayside spurred lively retail and social trends.
Miami used to look like that? See old nightclubs, restaurants and stores
Lums once served beer-steamed hot dogs in Miami, while CocoWalk and Bayside spurred lively retail and social trends.
bit.ly
June 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I went to uni in Miami in the 90s. What a walk down memory lane this was!!!
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It is also the 150th anniversary of the birth of Norwegian psychologist Helga Eng, who in the 1920s was noted for her studies of the development of children's artistic capacities and sense of visualization. She passed away in 1966.
#WomenInSTEM #PsychSky #ChildrensDevelopment #BookSky
#WomenInSTEM #PsychSky #ChildrensDevelopment #BookSky
May 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM
It is also the 150th anniversary of the birth of Norwegian psychologist Helga Eng, who in the 1920s was noted for her studies of the development of children's artistic capacities and sense of visualization. She passed away in 1966.
#WomenInSTEM #PsychSky #ChildrensDevelopment #BookSky
#WomenInSTEM #PsychSky #ChildrensDevelopment #BookSky
I’m not even gonna read this. With a headline like this it deserves an instant repost.
Feathers are flying after a dignified celebration of Westphalia was tainted by a ‘blasphemous’ performance that included plucked fowl dressed in nappies
Outrage over dancing chickens and topless men in German cathedral
Feathers are flying after a dignified celebration of Westphalia was tainted by a ‘blasphemous’ performance that included plucked fowl dressed in nappies
www.thetimes.com
May 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I’m not even gonna read this. With a headline like this it deserves an instant repost.
Keir Starmer is my MP. This is the letter I wrote to him today.
Subject: Island of Strangers?
Mr Starmer,
Let me tell you about this ‘stranger’.
Subject: Island of Strangers?
Mr Starmer,
Let me tell you about this ‘stranger’.
May 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Keir Starmer is my MP. This is the letter I wrote to him today.
Subject: Island of Strangers?
Mr Starmer,
Let me tell you about this ‘stranger’.
Subject: Island of Strangers?
Mr Starmer,
Let me tell you about this ‘stranger’.
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I have a tendency to jump to the positive side of the teeter-totter way too quickly. I cringed when reading “Forget Happiness. Go Hard on Wonder." talking about "toxic positivity" - my husband nodded ...
Learn more about #wonder 👉 https://buff.ly/3PpG8FE
@monicacparker.bsky.social #thoughtechoes
Learn more about #wonder 👉 https://buff.ly/3PpG8FE
@monicacparker.bsky.social #thoughtechoes
what if we invited more wonder into our lives?
What is wonder versus happiness? And what if we invited more wonder into our lives?
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January 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I have a tendency to jump to the positive side of the teeter-totter way too quickly. I cringed when reading “Forget Happiness. Go Hard on Wonder." talking about "toxic positivity" - my husband nodded ...
Learn more about #wonder 👉 https://buff.ly/3PpG8FE
@monicacparker.bsky.social #thoughtechoes
Learn more about #wonder 👉 https://buff.ly/3PpG8FE
@monicacparker.bsky.social #thoughtechoes
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Reposted by Monica Parker
Thank you @monicacparker.bsky.social for teaching me the many layers of wonder and why being open to wonder enriches our lives. #wonder
When we think of happiness, it’s a single emotion and all positive. With wonder, there’s an element of taking in what happens, the positive and the negative.
Learn more about happiness vs wonder 👉 https://buff.ly/4gbh4xX
#wonder #thoughtechoes
Learn more about happiness vs wonder 👉 https://buff.ly/4gbh4xX
#wonder #thoughtechoes
December 24, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Thank you @monicacparker.bsky.social for teaching me the many layers of wonder and why being open to wonder enriches our lives. #wonder
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This week’s Wonderbringer newsletter @monicacparker.bsky.social shared: döstädning.
“We rid ourselves of life's detritus before passing away lessening the burden of those who clean up behind us.” I experienced the importance watching 16 mattresses leave my childhood home after Mom died.
“We rid ourselves of life's detritus before passing away lessening the burden of those who clean up behind us.” I experienced the importance watching 16 mattresses leave my childhood home after Mom died.
December 18, 2024 at 4:53 PM
This week’s Wonderbringer newsletter @monicacparker.bsky.social shared: döstädning.
“We rid ourselves of life's detritus before passing away lessening the burden of those who clean up behind us.” I experienced the importance watching 16 mattresses leave my childhood home after Mom died.
“We rid ourselves of life's detritus before passing away lessening the burden of those who clean up behind us.” I experienced the importance watching 16 mattresses leave my childhood home after Mom died.
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“…we start to see what our wonderbringers are and recognize that these aren't just hobbies or things we like to do, that they're in fact fundamental to the foundation of who we are as humans …”
Full podcast on YouTube 👉 https://buff.ly/49GWXFj
@monicacparker.bsky.social #wonder #thoughtechoes
Full podcast on YouTube 👉 https://buff.ly/49GWXFj
@monicacparker.bsky.social #wonder #thoughtechoes
December 17, 2024 at 5:37 PM
“…we start to see what our wonderbringers are and recognize that these aren't just hobbies or things we like to do, that they're in fact fundamental to the foundation of who we are as humans …”
Full podcast on YouTube 👉 https://buff.ly/49GWXFj
@monicacparker.bsky.social #wonder #thoughtechoes
Full podcast on YouTube 👉 https://buff.ly/49GWXFj
@monicacparker.bsky.social #wonder #thoughtechoes
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HBO has declined to renew “Sesame Street” for new episodes. The series that’s been teaching generations of little kids since 1969 now has no studio.
Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.
Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.
Support Us - Sesame Workshop
Individual donors and partners can have a major impact. Join Sesame Workshop’s Mission to Help Kids Everywhere Grow Smarter, Stronger, and Kinder.
sesameworkshop.org
December 15, 2024 at 2:12 PM
HBO has declined to renew “Sesame Street” for new episodes. The series that’s been teaching generations of little kids since 1969 now has no studio.
Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.
Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.
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“I think that by looking at the negative through a wonder lens, it allows us to not resist and not deny the negative, but then also immediately recognize what positive exists.”
Full podcast 👉 https://buff.ly/49o9Vb1
@monicacparker.bsky.social #wonder #thoughtechoes
Full podcast 👉 https://buff.ly/49o9Vb1
@monicacparker.bsky.social #wonder #thoughtechoes
December 9, 2024 at 2:03 PM
“I think that by looking at the negative through a wonder lens, it allows us to not resist and not deny the negative, but then also immediately recognize what positive exists.”
Full podcast 👉 https://buff.ly/49o9Vb1
@monicacparker.bsky.social #wonder #thoughtechoes
Full podcast 👉 https://buff.ly/49o9Vb1
@monicacparker.bsky.social #wonder #thoughtechoes
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“… we start to see what our wonderbringers are and recognize that these aren't just hobbies or things we like to do, that they're in fact fundamental to the foundation of who we are as humans …”
Full podcast 👉 https://buff.ly/3D1ucqQ
@monicacparker.bsky.social #wonder #thoughtechoes
Full podcast 👉 https://buff.ly/3D1ucqQ
@monicacparker.bsky.social #wonder #thoughtechoes
December 4, 2024 at 7:11 PM
“… we start to see what our wonderbringers are and recognize that these aren't just hobbies or things we like to do, that they're in fact fundamental to the foundation of who we are as humans …”
Full podcast 👉 https://buff.ly/3D1ucqQ
@monicacparker.bsky.social #wonder #thoughtechoes
Full podcast 👉 https://buff.ly/3D1ucqQ
@monicacparker.bsky.social #wonder #thoughtechoes
This was such a lovely conversation Beth! Thanks for having me!
“Anytime that we can tell a story about something, and then we know from research that wonder shared is wonder multiplied.”
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@monicacparker.bsky.social #wonder #thoughtechoes
Full podcast 👉 https://buff.ly/3ZDy764
@monicacparker.bsky.social #wonder #thoughtechoes
December 6, 2024 at 1:52 AM
This was such a lovely conversation Beth! Thanks for having me!
Interestingly, this is my masters thesis in a nutshell. When we think our act of sustainability makes no appreciable difference, in the face of a huge problem, we won’t act. No amount of data, knowledge or ability will change that. Applicable to other altruistic and community-focused behaviour too.🧐
The election has driven Tiffany to the edge!
Who else can relate? 🤣
Who else can relate? 🤣
December 4, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Interestingly, this is my masters thesis in a nutshell. When we think our act of sustainability makes no appreciable difference, in the face of a huge problem, we won’t act. No amount of data, knowledge or ability will change that. Applicable to other altruistic and community-focused behaviour too.🧐
Blue sky indeed 🤩
November 23, 2024 at 10:08 AM
Blue sky indeed 🤩
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Did you know that the fab team at @siliconrepublic.bsky.social does a free daily newsletter called The Daily Brief to start your day off with all the info you need on tech, science and innovation. Highly recommend a subscribe if you're not on it:
Catch up on this morning's sci-tech news with our Daily Brief.
🇺🇸 US DOJ's court filing calls for a Google break-up
🚘 Ford announced job cuts across Europe
🩻 Medtech finalists are revealed
...and more
mailchi.mp/siliconrepub...
🇺🇸 US DOJ's court filing calls for a Google break-up
🚘 Ford announced job cuts across Europe
🩻 Medtech finalists are revealed
...and more
mailchi.mp/siliconrepub...
Time for Google to break up?
mailchi.mp
November 21, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Did you know that the fab team at @siliconrepublic.bsky.social does a free daily newsletter called The Daily Brief to start your day off with all the info you need on tech, science and innovation. Highly recommend a subscribe if you're not on it: