HeyJaredAyesha Recommends (+ more)
Amusing musings, overthinking chronicles and where in the world I might be, but mostly things I've consumed and learned that I'd like to share because my notes app is getting messy.
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Ayesha Recommends: August Favorites (opens the original)
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Year in and year out, August feels like an interlude. As if I’m coming to an end of a run on sentence abruptly and frozen in that breath right before correcting, commending or questioning oneself. Where do I sit? Probably somewhere between Burn One by Brent Faiyaz, Parachutes by Coldplay and Nothing Without Intention by Solange.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch
Ayesha Recommends: July Favorites (opens the original)
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I’m writing this from a July that was somehow both quieter and messier than it needed to be; laundry disasters, a £2,000 book I thought about for four days, a Vogue India event, 2 am bike rides and a hair situation that’s currently one bad day away from a chop. Nothing life-altering. Just the small good (and mildly infuriating) things, which lately feel worth noting more than ever.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EYzM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,
Ayesha Recommends: June Favorites (+ April & May) (opens the original)
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Okayyyy I didn’t write any recs in April or May. Most of that time went into getting Guillam St. James ready to open, which meant three months in London and leaving the city exactly once - genuinely unusual for me, the girl who is always somewhere else. But it’s been nice being rooted for a minute, even if it means this newsletter is now a quarterly instead of monthly situation. So here’s everything I loved across April, May, and June, all in one very full list :)Ayesha Recom
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