A garden is a conversation you have with next spring.

Ingrid Solberg

Gardener, Bergen

No. 164

300

letters

Three hundred Thursdays in the garden.

The anniversary seed swap opens on Saturday.

Leaflet

Home Truths

42 min

Episode

035

Write it down in full

with Greta Lund, therapist

Your first thousand readers are a village. Treat them like neighbours.

Lucas Moreau

Newsletter writer, Lyon

No. 186

“

The sea doesn’t owe you a wave. Paddle out anyway.

Keanu Kahale

Surf coach, Honolulu

If they are skimming, you have already lost them. Make it worth slowing down for.

Chloé Martin

Editor, Montreal

No. 263

Write the sentence you would underline if someone else had written it.

Ines Carvalho

Novelist, Porto

No. 274

The best meetings end with fewer people knowing more.

Clara Weiss

Chief operating officer, Vienna

No. 153

Mother Tongue · No. 94

Say it out loud

hiraeth

HEER-eyeth noun, Welsh

A homesickness for a home you cannot return to, or that never was.

Welsh, from hir, long.

Stage fright is just excitement that forgot to breathe.

Imani Brooks

Singer, Atlanta

No. 195

Prompt 157

The Daily Page

Describe a stranger you still think about.

Ten minutes. No editing.

Most of courage is showing up a second time.

Fatima Zahra

Boxer, Casablanca

No. 092

Music is the only place I’m allowed to be late on purpose.

Rafa Morales

Drummer, Havana

No. 106

Silence is the loudest instrument in the room. Use it on purpose.

Dmitri Volkov

Conductor, Tallinn

No. 239

An interview is over when the other person asks you a question.

Ben Asante

Journalist, Accra

No. 014

Every bookshop smells like a different argument.

Malik Johnson

Bookseller, Chicago

No. 207

Liner Notes

A letter by Olu Adeyemi

No.

293

On sale now

28 October 2026

The art of the thank-you note

If the chorus needs explaining, it is not the chorus yet.

Olu Adeyemi

Songwriter, Lagos

No. 180