three hundred letters - by nikhil - Splash
Feelings come, feelings go, people come, people go, everything from the sky to the sea comes and goes. And somehow I still continue, somehow the letters keep flowing. Through each year of college, through moving across the country, through a pandemic, through three different jobs, some loss, and even more joy, as the hummingbirds beat their wings hundreds of times a minute and the wind whispers pollen and dust through the air. How have I written for 300 weeks? How have I written 300 editions of this newsletter over seven years? Inconsistently at times. Often lazily. And lovingly, when my best efforts succeed. Splash sprung from a single desire many years ago. At age 19, I was in search of relief from the constant anxieties and confusion that haunted my teen years. I was blindly stumbling through the dark, seeking anything that might make the world even a little more comprehensible. My hands moved across different possibilities: self-help books, religious texts, electronic dance music,
three hundred letters i’ve been writing weekly for a while nikhil Apr 18, 2024 16 4 4 Share Feelings come, feelings go, people come, people go, everything from the sky to the sea comes and goes. And somehow I still continue, somehow the letters keep flowing. Through each year of college, through moving across the country, through a pandemic, through three different jobs, some loss, and even more joy, as the hummingbirds beat their wings hundreds of times a minute and the wind whispers pollen and dust through the air. How have I written for 300 weeks? How have I written 300 editions of this new
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