New Year, New Me?
I'm finally taking that break this year!
Thanks for being here guys!
I feel like ever since the start of this newsletter I’ve been talking about my hand hurting so it finally felt like it was time to do something about it and give it the proper break it deserves. Historically I’ve tried to take breaks in the past and they have been to some varying degree of success. This will be the longest break so far and definitely feels more official as I intentionally scheduled it.
I’ve already been trying to read more and am currently reading Martyr by Kaveh Akbar and When Death Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. Both books about… DEATH??? Man… If you have any book recommendations (perhaps some more positive ones), drop em below!
And if you have any recommendations for hobbies to take up that don’t involve heavy use of my right hand, PLEASE let me know them. So far I have reading, writing (with a keyboard) and walking… Not a very extensive list at all!!!
So glad to hear you're taking a break! As a slightly older 30-something I learnt from bitter experience what happens when you don't look after that bod, so you're doing the right thing!
May I introduce you to the wonderful world of Geocaching? It's hidden little caches all around us you can find when out walking (and Pikmining as I am lately!) they're awesome and all over the world. My favourite one was shaped like a burger. You sign the logs and keep track of your finds in the app, and sometimes there are little trinkets you can take, and you can leave trinkets too.
Wishing you all the very best with your break! x
PLEASE REST, LIAN 🧡 (not to scare u with the caps lock but pls do) also! some book recs:
Station Eleven if you like a slow, slice of life kinda vibe about a travelling theatre troupe in a post-apocalyptic world.
Mary Oliver’s Upstream is a collection of her essays which i thoroughly enjoyed.
or for a book adaptation movie to read before you see the movie later this year, may i recommend Project Hail Mary, which is about one guy who wakes up with no memory in space. (sound familiar? it’s written by the same guy who wrote The Martian!!!)