15 Enjoyable Things to Convey Us Some Pleasure Proper Now

Hello and pleased weekend! I’m sending a lighter letter immediately as the whole lot has felt so, so heavy these days. I’d love to listen to about your enjoyable issues within the feedback part. Also below the paywall immediately are some scorching suggestions from readers from the previous week, plus the newsletters I cherished and located enjoyable to learn this week.

There’s a snowstorm imminent this weekend – keep heat and protected, everybody! If you want a superb e book to bundle up with, I like to recommend this earlier roundup of the very best e book recs for winter from buddies + Downtime readers.

An enormous thanks to everybody who upgraded to paid earlier this week! I recognize you. You can accomplish that right here in the event you haven’t already. This month, I’m donating a portion of my paid subscriptions to the Minnesota-based Immigrant Defense Network in gentle of the horrible occasions unfolding there. Things are usually not regular and never okay proper now. Big hugs to our Downtime Minnesotans, I’m in awe of the way you’re exhibiting up and preventing again.

1. Sometimes you simply want a visible increase of a pick-me-up. This week, it got here within the type of these beautiful heart-shaped cakes from baker Lucie Franc de Ferriere. Whoever will get to get pleasure from these is so fortunate!

2. I’ve fallen down a enjoyable Etsy rabbit gap searching for Valentine’s Day stationery provides, like these pretty envelopes and a custom embossed wax seal. An upcoming interview (and studying The Correspondent) sparked an thought: write my daughter a letter each Valentine’s Day, tuck them away, and present them to her when she goes to varsity.

3. I’ll be a visitor curator in one in all my favourite newsletters about sustainable and mindful living tomorrow. See you there!

4. Attention everybody who learn and cherished “The Favorites” by Layne Fargo: This romance movie about figure-skating, out now on Netflix, appears like a enjoyable escape.

5. Substack author Rose Florence has been curating and sharing stunning artwork on the Notes feed. I simply stumbled throughout this post of hers with an enormous record of books, podcasts, and different newsletters to kickstart your individual artwork schooling. LOVE.

6. This one isn’t a “joyful” rec but it surely feels joyful to really feel such as you’e doing one thing about all this fiddle us: I’ve been utilizing the 5Calls app throughout walks with my canine to name my reps. The app makes it really easy by sharing scripts and your reps’ cellphone numbers.