The Sunday Digest 045
Plus an additional editor's note
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Sunday Read: The Countercultural Cool of Marin County
by Maria Shollenbarger for The Financial Times (via Lunch Reads)
I only lived in San Francisco for six months but that short period of time made a huge impact on me. I don’t think I changed as a person there as much as I had some much-needed realizations about what I wanted out of life. I think some of that can be attributed to the minimal time I spent in Marin.
I’ve always said something sort of cheesy about Marin: “My favorite part about San Francisco is what sits just north of the city.” The towering trees, the wooden homes, the winding roads. There’s a serenity about it that my brain wants to cling to.
Here’s some proof—
Nature as psychic alembic: you hear variations on this theme from a lot of people in Marin, whether artist, curator, mechanic or bartender. Nature is the Marin plumb line. If you Waze your route carefully, a half-hour’s drive from San Francisco’s Union Square can get you onto near-empty two-lane roads that lead into miles of low, open, rolling hills and shadowy forest. Along the coast, cypresses bend backward and wild grass lies flat, supplicants to the offshore wind that presides here at the westernmost edge of the North American continent. The light is extraordinarily changeable: one day hard as diamonds, exquisitely pure; the next thick with fog you could almost grab handfuls of. Sometimes both, in the space of two hours.
Read in full here.
The Sunday Haiku: Daylight Savings Time
The clocks change next week.
But is it forward or back?
Not sure, Google it.
New Episode › Drunk Texts, Hypothetical Unemployment, Collectively Hating Our Jobs, and More Listener Questions
This month's listener-submitted questions include proper morning-after etiquette for drunk texts, my footwear lineup going into spring, dealing with the ripple effects of a hungover Monday, how I'd spend three months of unemployment (with severance), drinking habits since Dry January, why collectively hating our jobs is fun, the difficulty of new hobbies, and more.
Things I Saved This Week
By the way: I do not own the rights to any of these photos so if one of them is yours and you’d like credit, please reach out.
Editor’s Note
You may have noticed I missed last week’s edition of The Sunday Digest. I almost apologized, but I was so relaxed on a long weekend away that I simply never got to it. I don’t think that’s worth apologizing for, right? Here’s proof:
I mean, just look at the spa in that sixth slide. I was doing laps between the sauna, steam room, cold plunge, hot tub, and outdoor shower. Kept my muscles guessing at all times that we weren’t posted up in the hotel lobby bar.
I’ll text next time I’m going to be late again. Good to be back.
Additionally, SXSW is taking Austin over yet again which means I should be out and about over the next couple weeks. On Friday, I’m going to be with the entire Washed Media crew at The Midwest House on Rainey Street from 3-5 o’clock. Earlybird (WICKS for 20% off) is joining us as well, so there should be some free drinks flying around for supporters. Here’s all the info you need:
Hope to see you there. And if not, maybe I’ll see you on the floor of the Bob Weir shows mid-week down here as well.
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