Introducing something new
What I can't get used to here
What I can’t get used to here (I’ll tell youWhile we hide together, you facelessin shadow) is the smallness.I didn’t look for only cream and honeyNor even...
It's life that matters
"It's life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering, not the discovery itself, at all. But what's the use of talking? I suspect that all I'm...
What trees?
Or: Why I don't do things anymore I don't know if it's getting older or the experience of running businesses and having to make all of these meta-decisions...
Fiction vs. non-Fiction
Who Will Win the Epic Battle of Our Times? Recently, one of my Internet follows wrote about how Sylvia Plath really wanted to be a prose writer but kept...
A gift for book-lovers
Hello friends, (And I mean that! Last year I culled this list to people I know in some way, so we are all friends here. Unless you’re a secret enemy who I...
Only pointless things, please
Well then: it’s a pointless task, and that’s exactly why I need to do it. I’m sick of going after things that have points; for too long now I’ve been cut off...
11 days until Post Day!
Hello friends, This is a quick reminder that It’s Post Day on February 14th! That’s a short 11 days from today. You may have thought it was Valentine’s Day...
Final housekeeping thing
Hello friend, Back in September I asked you to raise your hand if you’d like to stay on this list. I haven’t heard from you (which is quite alright!), but I...
An invitation to February aliveness
Dear friends, My heart has been breaking open so easily lately. Everything has the potential to make me cry. Like this, from a novel I was reading the other...
🖐❗️ Important house-keeping thing
Hello friends, ***Re the subject line: I'm requesting a quick reply from you, if you'd like to keep receiving mail from me. I'll tell you why down below.***...
How do you give a title to something like this
My brother died two weeks ago. I keep looking at that sentence, thinking, “That’s a shocking thing to say; it feels sensationalist. Do I want to be...
No. 8: Turtle power 🐢
Hello, Internet friends, In the category of “all my favorite work is procrasti-work,” I published an essay today. If I’m honest, this is the main reason I’m...
No. 7: Leaving no part of us behind
I published my first essay on the new site that Adam made for me. I haven’t shared it publicly yet, and I’ve rather enjoyed that feeling. “Here’s a thing and...
No. 6: Adventures in people-first growth 🌿
Sarah Avenir is a student and teacher of people-first growth 🌿 (Hey look, it's a new newsletter title! 👆) Backstory: I've been taking Anne-Laure's Collector...
No. 5: Guinea pigs wanted 🐹 (for fun and adventure 🎡!)
Hi friends, I'm eschewing (eschewing!) my regular "here's all the things I've made this week" format in order to ponder something. I've been thinking a lot...
No. 4: More snails! 🐌
Hello, fellow citizens of the Internet, This past week was another week that felt slow on the public Roam project side of things. But one thing I'm noticing...
No. 3: Entering a new season 🍁
Hello, everyone! The past few weeks have been full of ✨unexpectedness✨, as life sometimes is. My public Roam project has been plodding along at a very slow,...
No. 2: Diving deep into weird public projects
Good morning! (I would say good afternoon, but that sounds so formal.) This week has been full of new adventures. Here's the latest: Join me on a public...
No. 1: Breaking the ice on roam.sarahavenir.com 🌱
Hiya! 👋 In case you forgot, I'm Sarah Avenir, a person from the Internet who started a public Roam project about questions I'm grappling with/possibilities...