A weekly newsletter. Yes, highly unoriginal. Except this one might just change your life little by little, slowly, gently. Each week is different. Join and find out. You can unsubscribe in one click if it's not for you. No hard feelings.

First, more about what it is : slowing down. Nourishing our lives. The real world. Creating more ease. More joy. More connection. More fun. More meaningful moments, more consistently. Crafting how we live. Giving ourselves more time to think. To jumble our thoughts. To wander. Developing curiosity. Increasing awe. And staying firmly grounded while doing so. We're not about doing it for the likes. Not for AI doing creators work and removing the creative process. Not for having to turn everything into a product or a business. Not for more automation or being more productive. Not for a race to increase growth quarter-on-quarter forever, until we've destroyed everything. Not for more complexity. Nor more speed or clickbait. Just the good stuff. The simple stuff. The stuff that's important. The stuff that is sustainable; for our energy, our hearts, the natural world. The creative enough.

Creativity. Community. Connection. Curiosity. Care. Joy. You can tell a corporate consultant didn't make it up because I couldn't think of another C word to resemble joy or rest.

If you're reading this you're unlikely to be in a war zone or living in poverty without housing, so automatically rather privileged. Everyone reading this is likely in different circumstances except that we probably don't have any people living in gated mansions here. This is for humans paying rent or mortgages, going to work or juggling the unpaid work of raising kids, volunteering for others, caring for family members or trying to be a good friend or community member, and probably somewhat shit-scared about their retirement (never being able to fund one or the planet dying before we get there). I'm just a person hoping to create some more creativity and play that slows down our lives by however much you'd like, while increasing our joy.

We can also add poverty, a nightmarish housing system, neocolonialism, ever-invading technology, a biodiversity crisis we rarely talk about, racism, sexism, probably every -ism actually, and screwed political systems nearly everywhere. Some engagement in creativity and rest probably requires some level of denial in that moment. It's also an outlet, and a useful tool for change. You're probably living it, all across it, or trying to escape it. And hopefully you vote to make the world more just so that all humans and species can thrive. This little space exists to make meaning in spite of it all. To bring some fun back. To learn to rest and recover. To craft lighter moments in our days. To dig around and find some of our natural roots. Outside of structural change, I think this can make for more fulfilling lives, and kinder societies.

Maybe. I know grief, burnout, and pain pretty well. In difficult moments I did lots of little kind things for myself and with creativity in heart to keep me going. But this isn't going to fix everything and I don't know your situation. It will however encourage you to slow down, to feel more connected, to take baby steps, to lighten the pressure on your chest, to feel like yourself again and to give you lots of steady ideas to do so. And maybe it will help alongside some therapy. Try it. You have my heart and my hugs.

You're so tired that is not even a question. Yes it's for you though. Very much.

No - it’s a life thing for... lifers. Specifically human adults because I don't know how to communicate with trees, turtles, and elephants unfortunately. Designers are very welcome!

Correct. There's a background that's slowly changing color as you read this. There's some wiggling list items. There's gifs that change as you scroll on desktop. There's a damn animation at the top that literally morphs one shape into the next and then bounces through the list and I cannot even describe how unnecessarily long that took for absolutely zero reason. There's a bunch of stuff going on in the last question and last week I tried to save €3.36 on my grocery shopping, but I spent a painful $150 on this font and I don't even like the G. Look at it. Why did they make all the letters good except the G? And the Q. And the 0. Who puts a dot in a zero? Humans are monsters. It's not the best design in the world. I tried new things. I had fun. Take it as inspiration to have bad ideas. Or as a challenge to design your own idea, better. Whatever floats your boat internet stranger.

Yes, it's totally free. It takes me a significant amount of time to write these each week. Because it's a custom design, I code each letter up too. And pay for stuff. I might introduce some non-obnoxious sponsored spots to help cover that, in keeping inline with our values here. I'd love to have the energy and headspace to continue creating this so being financially sustainable would be helpful. Doing this also helps me have a community of good humans, savor more, and feel better about our world. Outside of this, I work because rent and electricity cost money and I'm yet to encounter a landlord willing to accept my cookies in exchange, but I'm not consumeristically inclined. Is anyone rich from newsletters that aren't about business, finance or the news anyway?

I'm just a girl, sitting (virtually) in front of you, This is a reference to Notting Hill which I watch every year but most memorably once in a thunderstorm in a cottage in Kenya when video tapes still existed. My taste in films goes far deeper but I need relief from the heavy stuff! hoping that you'll join us for a little bit more of the real world life while it exists. My name is Lisande I can't think of anyone better than the creator of my name to pronounce it for you so click for my mum! I live in the mountains of France, I've loved Leonard Cohen forever, I don't understand the world and you'll usually see me smiling anyway. Once someone from the online world met me in real life and told me I was less scary and much nicer. I think my best epitaph would read "she really tried". We exist as a different version of ourselves in the head of each person we meet so let's get to know each other more in the mails. You can reply at any time.