Oooft. I’ve just dropped the kids of to the first day of school and I am literally jumping out of my skin for the quietness of the house, the knowing that the kitchen will reamin clean for more than an hour and for the fact that I know will achieve some things today, without distraction. I’m so excited that I could very nearly blow it all up doing ‘nothing’ for hours in celebration. But I won’t and writing to you is the first thing I can’t wait to get my hand to.
It will be a short one this week. Back in full force next week. Already it’s going to be an exciting start to the year for Company on Sundays and the Manson Podcasting Network. To start, there are a few collaborations in the works and this newsletter will get a freshen up in the weeks to come, you can look forward to it.
A lovely list of Sunday Scrolls:
This article written by Trish Dixon for the (new to me) publication The Paige is beautiful, as her work always is, and just what I need to continue filling the above wheelbarrow full of much needed garden clippings.
As someone who’s trying to find extra work, I love this from 76 year-old barista Alice in rural QLD.
The Best Retro Sneakers to buy right now.
Growing vegetables in dis-used city office spaces. I remeber reporting on vertical farms when they were a new and novel idea, at the time I felt it could be a treat to conventional farming, but it’s not and now I see it’s happening to great effect.
Delicious; fabrics and books everywhere.
‘Rebecca Solnit on writing, gardening and the life of the mind.’
One more thing…
There’s been a big drop off in subscribers over the holidays, and I get it, I understand and so I’ll be restructuring things here in the coming weeks. One of the changes will be that this Sunday newsletter will hitting inboxes fortnightly as opposed to weekly. A perk of a paid subscription will be weekly Sunday newsletters amongst other new offerings. More to come on this, but if you want to get into a paid subscription now, or perhaps if your subscription has lapsed, I love to see you back in our close knit fold.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. XXXX
I remember that feeling of release so well Skye, though today I leave our youngest behind in Sydney to begin uni, and I am dreading the silence of empty nesting. Enjoy those moments of abundant noise and energy, and the stillnesses too. My Mum, who would have been 80 today, used to say our children are only on loan. So true. Much love xx
Hi Skye lovely to see your newsletter back in my inbox this week. Gosh werent they the longest holidays ever! Love having Ethan home but its a juggle with work.