Seasons 🗞️ Slow News Day #89

Hey,

It’s been a little while. Again.

The second half of this year has seen me write just two editions of Slow News Day. That’s way past slow. It’s more like glacial. An agonising drip-drip-drip of snowmelt.

Maybe agonising is overdoing it. Either way, t’is the season of generosity and goodwill – so let me deliver a newsletter. Such thoughtful gifting.

I’ve had a bunch of separate people talking to me about seasons of life recently. It’s quite a nice idea, I think. A less linear way of looking at things, taking a more rounded route. It’s made me feel better about this newsletter.

I can be quite fatalistic, you see. I lost the streak of writing this each week and figured it was just done. Completely. No return. Scorched earth. The well had run dry.

Or maybe I’m just not in the season of writing this regularly. Maybe I’ve been in a season of other stuff. (I really have.)

Who’s to say I won’t find myself in a shifting season again, with a million and one ideas to write and not enough weeks to publish them?

All of this seasonal thinking has given me a bit of leeway – space to let stuff lie and quit treating everything with such cutthroat finality.

It’s sweet relief, to be honest.

Slow down guide

Need a little help moving slower?

Ease your way out of Friday afternoon with this newsletter, a nice cup of something, and a little background music. Steal my setup if you aren't sure where to start.

After I press schedule, I’m heading straight to my weekly therapy session. I’ve built a routine of brewing a cup of peppermint tea in the waiting room and it works as a lovely grounding, welcoming way into each session. If you’re dead-set on a caffeinated option, then I can recommend a specific lot of coffee, rather than a roast this week.

I tried Potterbeans’ Ratnagiri Estate roast a few weeks back and loved it. It gave me the kind of sensory experience I’ve not had from a coffee in a little while. So, when I saw that Full Court Press were selling their own roast of the same lot… I had to see what they’d done with it. Have a search around some of your favourite roasters and see if they’ve got anything from India’s Ratnagiri Estate on deck. It’ll blow the cobwebs away nicely.

For the sake of really rounding out this week’s theme, I’ve been spinning Future Island’s Seasons (Waiting on You) while writing this. If you don’t know, get to know. Then watch a video of them performing it live.

Take it easy,