The Sunday Digest 141
"Just looking up in Heaven at this crescent in the sky."
Welcome to The Sunday Digest — a free Sunday newsletter featuring long (and some short) reads, original columns, things I’ve saved over the last week, relaxing playlists, episodes releases, exclusive product drops, and more. Yes, you can reply to this email. I’d love to hear from you.
Sunday Read › The Art of Dailiness
by Michael Bierut for It’s Nice That (via Lunch Reads)
Consistency is something that I never took seriously until I moved to Austin and had a conversation with my roommate. He didn’t approach it with some abstract thoughts that he knew would go in one ear and out the other. Instead, he showed me growth numbers from various online creators who produced things daily (instead of weekly or sporadically). The proof was in the pudding.
I’ve always operated best when I have a solidified routine, something I discussed numerous times at-length during the days of The Sunday Scaries Podcast. That still shows through today through both the Sunday Scaries Instagram and this newsletter. If I don’t put out a Sunday Digest for one reason or another, I feel like something is missing from my week which is why I always make time for it. That consistency allows you to grow, see trends, and accomplish things you never thought possible.
This week’s Sunday Read is a study in just that: Consistency. Here’s an excerpt:
In the wake of 9/11, I began making a drawing every day inspired by an image in The New York Times. Like a lot of people, and as a New Yorker particularly, I felt deeply disoriented. It was a chaotic time, and I wanted to engage with current events, but on my own terms, in a meditative way. I didn’t realise that consciously in the moment. I just thought that drawing was nice, and that it’d be nice to have an excuse to draw every day, and also that doing it daily would take the pressure off. Maybe you screw it up one day, then the next you draw something pleasing – that seemed appealing to me.
I began my daily drawings on January 1, 2002. My rule was simple. I would get that day’s paper and choose a picture – something I thought was funny or interesting or provocative, or something I wanted to look at longer than anything else in the paper that day – and use that as my source material.
Read in full here.
The Sunday Haiku
Figuring it out
along the way has worked til now,
but what if it stops?
New Episode › Retail Therapy 118: Babygirls Go To Wimbledon
Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott mog all over Wimbledon, $400 melons in The Hamptons, Italian weddings and luxury Lake Como hotels, Keith McNally’s book, Bruv Summer featuring Oasis, Love Island USA’s rise, and more.
New Episode › Retail Therapy 119: Run Club Negroni Sours
In this audio-only episode recorded on Friday, we discuss how Under Armor ripped off Gumtree Golf & Nature Club, the rise of popular running apparel (and run clubs memes), Will's leader for Drink of the Summer (a negroni sour), a Retail Therapy playlist, wishlist items, and more.
Listen to Retail Therapy on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and anywhere else podcasts are found. You can also follow Retail Therapy on Substack.
Things I Saved This Week
My Sunday To-Do List
I need the club sandwich I didn’t get last week. All signs point to me ordering a to-go club sandwich today.
I either need to re-pot a plant that’s dying or abandon it completely. I’m skewing toward the former, but I really don’t know if this thing can make a comeback.
Enjoy as much of The Open Championship as I can without ignoring the responsibilities around me.
Read at least two chapters of a book. I’ve been on a hot streak of reading lately (for me) and I can’t let finishing my last book stall me out.
I think it’s probably time for me to start Season 4 of The Bear.
Early bedtime. Well, hopefully.
Hope you have a Sunday that relaxes you enough that the week doesn’t feel imposing,
Will
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I'm rebuilding routines after a hectic few months of moving and homemaking (we moved from downtown to a suburb and the square footage is insane). They're so critical to making sure I have the time and space to do the more flex and spontaneous things without guilt or damage. Bout to throw on the pod and light a Long Weekend candle to get through the next part of my personal routine. (We got so many pots to replant but they aren't visibly dying yet so... it waits another week.)
Sunday morning spent dropping so, so, so much money on some new lewks for a 2 week trip to Japan (which is also an excuse for a wardrobe refresh). Shared a sashimi platter with the boyf's fam last night along with a round of Asahis.
Save yourself and don't start The Bear. I'm a completist, so I'm stuck finishing it, but if I had the chance I wouldn't have begun this season.