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The SneakyArt Post

By Nishant Jain

Secretly drawn art of the world, delivered to your inbox.

Nova Nevedoma

By Vanya

Stories and essays of odd and obscure.

Vanya is a master storyteller with a penchant for weaving together beautiful and evocative prose. Each article provides a vicarious journey into the heart of Russian folklore, amongst many other topics, all handcrafted to meticulous perfection. Subscribe now and you thank me later!

- Josh Pillay

An Irritable Métis

By Chris La Tray

Email newsletter from Chris La Tray, enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, author of the forthcoming "Becoming Little Shell" from Milkweed Editions and "One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays from the World at Large."

Spark

By Elizabeth Marro

A community for readers, writers, and others who want to share what ignites them

Meaning-Making

By Jibran el Bazi

Whimsical and optimistic life stories—often provoked by a question—on living meaningfully in connection with ourselves and others. Some themes I cover: love, surrender, friendship, creativity, courage, curiosity, and kindness. I publish weekly-ish.

Her Fingers Bloomed

By Peter McLaughlin

Various thoughts about various problems in philosophy and politics

The Creator's Compass

By Renee Faber

Careening headlong into the spiritual to recover our purpose and joy. Podcast, writings, and personal stories of adventures into the deep.

Surrender Now

By Nicola T

Stories from life about miracles and the miraculous. Serial, once-weekly.

Survival by Book

By Courtney Cook

Writing on work, love, creativity, & other life-stuff, usually with a bookish lens

Berkana

By Swarnali Mukherjee

Built with a soft burning passion for obscure places, people, folklores, and cultural epiphanies

HeartBalm

By Sunny Lynn

Bringing love, presence, and balm to everyday lives, traumatized souls & aching hearts through word, poetry, nature, art, guided meditations, CPTSD topics, and offerings on self-love and heart-centered living 💖

Out of the Ordinary

By Simon Bazelon

Politics, Effective Altruism, Philosophy, and more.

MindVault

By Phil Hagspiel (MindVault)

A weekly drip of powerful ideas. Signal only. Zero noise.

Tulip

By The Integration Project

Truth, beauty, and all that jazz. Subscribe, free, today and never miss a fresh new thing. Welcome to Tulip.

Technocomplex

By Mark R DeLong

Notes, links, and experiments on our complex relationships with technology. Gleanings, too, from recent reading and thinking.

Garbage Day

By Ryan Broderick

A newsletter about having fun online.

Life in the Real World

By Karen Davis

Reflections on nature and life

The Sunny Optimist

By Ann Roberts

Ideas, information, and inspiration to brighten your day.

Resident Contrarian

Hamhanded metaphors and questionably interesting thoughts

On the Commons

By Antonia Malchik

A newsletter about ownership, property, and what we lose in the privatization of the commons.

The Jazprose Diaries

By Andrew Hill @ Jazprose

Personal essays & fiction by a guy who loves jazz, writes prose & remembers stuff.

Beginner’s Mind

By Christian Solorzano

A weekly-ish newsletter that critically examines the margins of culture, creativity, and the arts, through a contemplative lens. Written by Christian Solorzano, an artist based out of Chicago, Illinois.

Samstack

By Sam Atis

A newsletter about social science, the future, and why people behave in the way that they do.