volume ninety-one
a quick one
Hi pals!
This week was/is a blur of planes and transfers and jetlag and emotions over leaving Nanny and missing home and adjusting to cold, rainy weather and trying to create a schedule again and getting back into my 12-step program after neglecting it while helping with Poppy’s stuff and singing to my plants after being gone for 5 months.
Can you let me know something? Do you like the new format of “🧵mondays are for readers to write” in the substack chat? Do you miss when they were sent out like this email right now? Do you not really mind? I would love to know, let me know in the comments!
I will write again next week. In the meantime, if you’re new(ish) here, visit an old volume here. Pick your lucky number and see where it takes you or go say hello to my podcast! There are four seasons to listen to so take your pick of many episodes.
I spend many hours a week writing, recording and preparing these love letters for you and it brings me so much joy. I want these to always be free so in order to support my work and keep these coming at no cost, you can:
🧡 forward it to just one friend! just one! telling them you love it, and you think they will too! or share it on your social media if you’re feeling super generous!
🧡 leave a comment on this post telling me what you think of this volume!
🧡 join the hi, lauren deborah! chat, another free space for fun and silly conversations! you can now access it through your desktop (scroll and click “open on web”) so you don’t need the substack app to join in on silly conversations discussing things like this:
I love you. I’m so grateful to those who read my substack 🧡 because I really love writing it to you.
LD
xoxo
I have this thing that applies to stuff like making comments on people's substack, replying to direct messages, responding to emails, answering invitations, sustaining friendships, letting my wife and children know that I do actually love them etc.
The thing is, that I think I ought to do all these things in a way that is optimally freighted with sincerity while also being crafted to perfection aesthetically. Clearly, regardless of the significance of the context, this is ALWAYS impossible to achieve, and therefore I RARELY even get round to attempting it, and consequently NEVER succeed, resulting in the motivation even to make such an attempt diminish in perpetuity.
Except look: I'm having another little go. And it's on YOUR substack. And not even on one of your best posts (perhaps because they demand a quality of response that makes them frankly unapproachable) but just on this little itsy bitsy one.
Make of that what you will, but I think it ought to be something good, because that's what I'm intending and hoping for.
I can’t seem to figure out how to use the chat in web format. I don’t have space for another app 😞