🖇️ The Evolving & Enough Index

42 Essays and an offer

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Hello beautiful stranger/Hi lovely friend. Here are the 42 essays that have emerged in this newsletter in the last three years.

🖇️ The Evolving & Enough Index

Season 1

1. An Entry in Slow Motion — The Private Life of Plants, Time, Embracing our Natural Speed

2. Craving Enrichment — Escapist TV, Gatekeepers, and the Value of Giving Time and Vulnerability to Art

3. Why Evolving and Enough? — The Story of a Title

4. Sleep Desperation — Sleep shame, Need for Deep Rest, Syncing with the Sun

5. AnxietyAnxietyAnxietyAnxietyAnxietyAnxietyAnxietyAnxietyAnx — Yup. That's how it feels. A loopy spirally suckhole of public farting, death, and other fun thoughts

6. Compassion In. Compassion Out. — The Arrival of Coronavirus, Anxiety, and Several Good Poems

7. Binge-Watching Nature — Fireflies, Moon-ATMs, Sun Lozenges, and Chlorophyll Eyes

8. The Alien Power of Self Appreciation — Not a massage for your ego, but a wink at your potential

9. Four Women and the Art of Starting — The Glorious Discomfort of our Forward Journeys

10. So That's Me, Your New Teacher — Thirty little things about me

11. I Want to Eat Your Voice — Voice Tasting, Podcasts, and the Reverberance of my Mother's Voice

12. How to Be a Sick Foodie — Yumminess, Illness, Mindful Eating, and Marigold butts

Season 2

13. Doing Hope — My Life Jacket for the Second Wave of Coronavirus

14. Grip and Grounding on Grim Days — Gory News, Death Tolls, and Sensitive People Like Us

15. Holding Loss — Making space for grief, whatever be its size

16. Breaking Up with Sociology — My ex-favourite subject

17. Doing Something Does Something — An Overthinker (Finally) Takes Action

18. Cooking Alone — The Depressing Joy of Cooking for One

19. HFW - Home From Work — Have We Learned Nothing from WFH?

20. Adulting and Wintering — The Great Verbing of Nouns and The Paradoxical Contracts of Adulthood

21. Courage and Acceptance: 2 Poems for 2022 — short potent poetry when new year resolutions just don't cut itA Little Request

22. Love Stationery with Me — Smooth pens, crispy post-its, and other paper parties

23. Why I Gape at the Dramatic Expanse of the Sky — with a madman's love, with a fool's awe

24. I Fell Down 😥 — and picked up a realization

25. Why Poems are Feared, Even by the Brightest Among Us — Investigating meterophobia - our collective fear of poetry

26. Poetry in Pyjamas - 11 Practices to Get Over the Fear of Poetry ✨ — Be more 'you' around poems

27. ZINE: 500 Grams of Support — Old bras, Support Equity, the Eagerness to Support Despite Self Doubt

28. T a k e - a - B r e a k — Kit-Kat, Ross-Rachel, and a pile of text to help you take a break

    

Season 3

29. A Small Magical Space for Us — Writing for Creative and Sensitive Beings

30. A Tale of Two Writing Workshops — and the auntie who always asks "How Dare You?"

31. Pregnant with a Litter of Essays — letting the mind sprawl, reveal, and untangle itself

32. Writer's Block and it's 57 Names - Part 1 — When you can't start writing

33. Writer's Block and it's 57 Names - Part 2 — When you can't continue writing

34. I'm Struggling Financially — and other money confessions that need air

35. ➿ Curly Thoughts on Curly Hair ➿ — the spiral journey of acceptance\

36. Music in the Witness Stand — Spotify wrapped, musical geography, and that one song that does Kintsugi to your heart

37. Time is a Construct but Hope is Not — Wishing you a Hopy New Year

38. Body, Imperfectionism, and Being a Guest House: 3 Poems for 2023 — Once again, I commit to poems instead of new year's resolutions

39. Loving Minu Tai 💜 — and learning from her

40. SSSSSS - Wetness on the Sensitive Skin — 🪶 The Sensitivity Series #1

41. Being Besharam with Rangs — 🪶 The Sensitivity Series #2

42. Does ChatGPT lose its shit over the beauty of a white rose shivering in the moonlight? — and other peculiar thoughts about AI

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🤲 A Little Request

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If any of these 42 pieces have added any value to your life, would you please consider sharing the newsletter with your friends and communities? I am asking because:

• I had wanted this project to be a secret at some point, but I no longer do. I wanted to protect this baby, but now that it’s a proper toddler, I want to be seen with it.

• I have also tripled the time and effort I put into this newsletter so that it is worth people’s time.

• Since I am not on social media I have always depended on your word-of-mouth to reach more people.

• I’ve been told the newsletter is warm, and it’s winter! :) So please:

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🎁 A Special Offer

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Throughout February 2023, I am offering 20-minute Google Meet calls to anyone curious about starting a newsletter or Substack. I’m offering this because:

• Starting a newsletter was the best thing I did for my creative life.

• Though Substack is super easy, we often have doubts and blocks holding us back from starting a creative project.

• As a writing facilitator (& a subscriber of 100+ substacks - phew!) I would love to answer any questions that you might have.

Please feel free to share this offer with a friend you think would be an awesome newsletter creator.

PS: You don’t need to be a writer to start a substack. You can be an artist, activist, educator, or changemaker of any kind. You can even be a cat wanting to document her philosophy on feminism or a whale recording her songs for a trans-oceanic audience. Just sayin’. :)

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