Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive Director:
Reading: Just started Birding with Benefits by Sarah T. Dubb, a fun romance sparking between a birder and someone who is ready for new challenges (like birding!). Also reading Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall for my book club. It’s coming with me to Winter Institute.
Listening: To peepers, who will certainly go silent during the next few days of arctic weather, and birds chirping and squabbling at our bear-defying bird feeder.
Watching: Shifting back and forth between the Caribbean and the Carolinas as we alternate viewing Death in Paradise and the newest season of Sweet Magnolias.

Candice Huber / Membership:
Reading: Still reading 12 books at once. Still haven't finished one. But I'm going on a two-week vacation starting next week, so hoping to finish at least one book while in my fancy cabana.
Listening: I finally finished The Lotus Empire! WOO Please email me to discuss if you've read it, because I'd LOVE to talk about it.
Watching: Caught up on Severance season 2 and Traitors season 3. Next up: Squid Game season 2, Silo season 2, Yellowjackets season 3, and White Lotus season 3.

Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing, because I can't resist a great garden reclamation story. Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
Listening: The Spotify soundtrack to True Detective: Night Country, which has music by Tanya Tagaq, who wrote Split Tooth. I also have the audiobooks of A Bird in the House and The Fire-Dwellers, both by Margaret Laurence, which keep me company when I'm house cleaning.
Watching: After watching Big Night last week I was tooling around looking at other films with Isabella Rossellini, and came across La Chimera, a magical story that had me dreaming of catacombs and mysterious strings of red yarn. Rossellini in this movie is not "statuesque" (she's mostly in a wheelchair) but she still commands any room and any scene she is in. It's a really lovely film.

SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: Split Tooth, by Tanya Tagaq. A shattering story that has stayed in my thoughts long after finishing it. Though set at the edge of the Arctic circle during the 1970s, the book weaves time, myth, the supernatural, and uncompromising reality in a fiercely original story. I am honestly not sure what to read next.
Listening: Undercover (2020) by Bronwynne Brent, a new-to-me Mississippi-born singer and songwriter. The unparalleled Brittany Howard, mainly her 2019 debut solo album, Jaime. And it was time to revisit one of my longtime favorite albums from a longtime favorite band: Calexico's Algiers (2012).
Watching: Nicki picked this week's movie, La Chimera, the second movie (Happy as Lazzaro was the first) we've watched from Italian director Alice Rohrwacher. Dreamy and Felliniesque, the movie is set in the 1980s, but feels both medieval and post-apocalyptic as it follows a band of grave robbers in search of Etruscan antiquities. All the good stuff is there--art, beauty, history, myth, mystery, love, death, and great socks (not a typo).

Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: I just finished an early early bound manuscript of a great new book from Ashley Winstead, Future Saints. It's not her usual genre and I loved it!
Listening: The sounds of a snowy day in Richmond - kids outside on the way to sled at the reservoir, and a lot of silence otherwise.
Watching: The last episode of Cobra Kai and gearing up to start White Lotus season 3.