meeting

“A long walk solves more than a short meeting.”

Pieter Janssen Founder, Antwerp

building

“Walk the site at dawn. The building will tell you where it wants to face.”

Tomasz Nowak Architect, Kraków

Home Truths

42 min

Episode

035

Write it down in full

with Greta Lund, therapist

planners

“Cities are built by planners and saved by people who sweep their steps.”

Rania Khalil Urban researcher, Beirut

written

“Read slowly the books that were written slowly.”

Esther Cohen Librarian, Montreal

conversation

“Coffee is an excuse. The conversation is the product.”

Tesfaye Bekele Roaster, Addis Ababa

300

letters

Three hundred Thursdays in the garden.

The anniversary seed swap opens on Saturday.

Leaflet

nothing

“Nothing teaches like the thing you had to fix at 2 am.”

Ravi Kapoor Engineer, Bengaluru

archive

“Every archive is a love letter someone forgot to send.”

Beatriz Lima Archivist, São Paulo

“

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

Keanu Kahale

Surf coach, Honolulu

Prompt 157

The Daily Page

Describe a stranger you still think about.

Ten minutes. No editing.

decisions

“The harvest is loud. The good decisions happened in the quiet months.”

Élodie Blanc Vintner, Burgundy

letters

“Keep your first drafts. They are letters from a braver you.”

Rosa Jiménez Poet, Seville

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.

explaining

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

Olu Adeyemi Songwriter, Lagos

outlived

“The oldest tree in the park has outlived every plan for the park.”

Hamish Grant Arborist, Inverness

Liner Notes

A letter by Olu Adeyemi

No.

293

On sale now

28 October 2026

The art of the thank-you note

mountain

“The mountain is the same height every year. You are the one who changes.”

Lhakpa Dorje Trekking guide, Pokhara