HeyJaredThe Sometimes Newsletter
A dispatch from the desk of New York Times and internationally-bestselling author and illustrator Ella Frances Sanders, concerned primarily with paying close attention, the relationship between beauty and the mundane, and the things we fall in love with.
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The Return of Night Windows (opens the original)
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For a long time now I’ve had a thing about sticking my head out of a window at night and deeply inhaling the air. This practice is largely for no particular reason at all, but I do find that the world inhaled at night is less overwhelming, and arrives to my brain as stillness, as quiet, as the feeling that most things will in fact be surmountable (in the morning things do not appear very often as even remotely surmountable). And I like that it makes me feel like a night creature—the kind that sn
No.288 (opens the original)
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No.287 (opens the original)
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The Sometimes Newsletter No.286 (opens the original)
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