Pancake Minisode #1: Thoughts On The Transition Out Of Social Isolation

04/11/21 • 14 min

Sunday Pancakes with Celia Keenan-Bolger

In our first pancake minisode, Celia shares her hopes, struggles, and anxieties as we begin to gather again and awkwardly adjust to a New Normal.

Weekly Round-Up:

Read the Medium article, “Prepare For The Ultimate Gaslighting” by Julio Vincent Gambuto
Read the book Atomic Habits by James Clear
Read the Vice article, “How To Make Small Talk After We’ve Been Through A Pandemic” by Rachel Miller
Read “I’m Not Ready” from the March 4th edition of the Culture Study newsletter by Anne Helen Peterson
“Collective Compassion” is a term Celia first heard used by Sonya Renee Taylor in her book The Body Is Not An Apology. The book will also be included in next week's round-up.

Please send your pancake thoughts, feelings, curiosities, and questions to Celia at [email protected].

In our first pancake minisode, Celia shares her hopes, struggles, and anxieties as we begin to gather again and awkwardly adjust to a New Normal.

Weekly Round-Up:

Read the Medium article, “Prepare For The Ultimate Gaslighting” by Julio Vincent Gambuto
Read the book Atomic Habits by James Clear
Read the Vice article, “How To Make Small Talk After We’ve Been Through A Pandemic” by Rachel Miller
Read “I’m Not Ready” from the March 4th edition of the Culture Study newsletter by Anne Helen Peterson
“Collective Compassion” is a term Celia first heard used by Sonya Renee Taylor in her book The Body Is Not An Apology. The book will also be included in next week's round-up.

Please send your pancake thoughts, feelings, curiosities, and questions to Celia at [email protected].

Previous Episode

Having A Hard Conversation (And The Healing That Accompanies It) with Kelli O’Hara

Stage and screen star KELLI O’HARA has established herself as one of Broadway’s greatest leading ladies. Her portrayal of Anna Leonowens in The King and I garnered her the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, along with Grammy, Drama League, Outer Critics, and Oliver nominations. Kelli has received an additional 6 Tony nominations for her work on Broadway in the productions The Light in the Piazza, The Pajama Game, South Pacific, Nice Work if You Can Get It, The Bridges of Madison County, and and Kiss Me Kate. Kelli was awarded the prestigious Drama League’s Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theatre Award in 2019. Kelli also received an Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Katie Bonner in the hit web series The Accidental Wolf. Other film and television credits include the second season of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why, All The Bright Places, Peter Pan Live!, Sex & The City 2, Martin Scorsese’s The Key to Reserva, Showtime’s Masters of Sex, CBS All Access’ The Good Fight, Blue Bloods, N3mbers, and the animated series Car Talk. She is currently shooting HBO’s The Gilded Age. Kelli sits on the boards of New York City Center and The NY Pops for which she Co-Chairs their PopsEd initiative.She also serves on the Lincoln Center Artist Committee and the advisory board of Broadway for Racial Justice. Kelli is a wife and a mother of 2 children.

Weekly Round-Up:

Read Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
Read the Vanity Fair piece, “Roxanne Gay on How to Write About Trauma" by Monica Lewinsky
Read the Bon Appétit article, “How Writing a Cookbook Helped Me Break Free From Diet Culture” by Julia Turshen
Listen to the On Being podcast episode, “The Soul in Depression” with Andrew Solomon

Next Episode

The Possibilities Inside Surrender with Zachary Quinto

ZACHARY QUINTO hails from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Carnegie Mellon where he received a BFA in Acting. In 2007 he was cast as 'Sylar' on the hit NBC series Heroes. That same year, he was cast as ‘Spock’ in the JJ Abrams directed reboot of the Star Trek franchise. He starred in the first season of American Horror Story in 2011, and then won a Critic’s Choice Award and Emmy Award nomination for his portrayal of ‘Dr. Oliver Thredson’ on American Horror Story: Asylum. Quinto appeared in the 2010 Signature revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels In America, for which he won a Theater World Award and a Drama Desk Award nomination. He made his Broadway debut in the 2013 Tony Award winning production of The Glass Menagerie. He was also seen in Noah Haidle's Smokefall and in the Joe Mantello directed revival of The Boys in The Band, which won the 2019 Tony for Best Revival of a Play. He's hosted the reboot of In Search Of on the History Channel, and starred in the AMC series NOS4A2. Most recently, he reprised his role as 'Harold' in the film adaption of The Boys In The Band on Netflix. Quinto began his production company Before the Door Pictures in 2008 and produced such films as Margin Call, All Is Lost, A Most Violent Year, and Aardvark. At the end of 2019, the new iteration of Before The Door signed first look deals with AMC Studios for scripted projects and with Spoke Studios for unscripted fare.

Weekly Round-Up:

Listen to Brene Brown’s Unlocking Us podcastepisode featuring Sonya Renee Taylor on “The Body is Not An Apology.”
Follow that by reading Sonya Renee Taylor’s book The Body Is Not an Apology.
There are Vedic and Transcendental meditation courses available throughout the US - apps like Ten Percent Happier, Calm, and Insight Timer (I really like the teacher Sarah Blondin) are easily accessible and can travel with you wherever you go.
Listen to Krista Tippet’s On Being podcast episode, “You are not alone across time” with Brian Doerries focused on his public art project, The Theater Of War.
Read Steven Pressfield’s book The War of Art which Zach (and Susan Blackwell) recommend.