February brings new flowers and... - by Priyanka Sacheti

This month brings me to two whole years of writing this newsletter! Before I wrote my first instalment back in February 2020, I had taken a social media break and found myself blogging for the first time in years on my now defunct blog (you can still check out the old posts, if you want:) And then, it struck me, why not start a newsletter, a form of writing I had started to enjoy of late (your newsletter, R, was in particular an inspiration:)? Given that I began this newsletter barely few days before the declaration of the pandemic, it strikes me that it become by default a historical pandemic document too, the way it affected my life in so many ways, whether it be the initial days of getting stranded in California due to travel restrictions or actually getting the virus last year or how we are gradually learning to live with its ebbs and flows. But briefly setting that aside, it truly has become a space for homeless thoughts, the intended purpose behind its initial creation, to journa

This month brings me to two whole years of writing this newsletter! Before I wrote my first instalment back in February 2020, I had taken a social media break and found myself blogging for the first time in years on my now defunct blog (you can still check out the old posts, if you want:) And then, it struck me, why not start a newsletter, a form of writing I had started to enjoy of late (your newsletter, R, was in particular an inspiration:)? Given that I began this newsletter barely few days before the declaration of the pandemic, it strikes me that it become by default a historical pandemic