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Before delving into this week’s special edition of Three Things Weekly (which is actually 10 things…), I wanted to write a little note of gratitude and reflection.
I started this publication a little under a year ago, and I’ve so enjoyed connecting with all the artists and creators who have contributed pieces of work featured in each week’s post. I’ve also taken pure delight in curating and sharing with you the nuggets of wisdom, curiosities, and beauties that I’ve come across, and been heartened by your responses.
Thank you for being part of this community, and I look forward to the next cycle of Co-Creation. Happy new year, whatever this might represent for you.
With love and gratitude,
Raphy Mendoza
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Three of our (your!) favourite posts this year:
From the Community
I hope that those of you who have seen these posts before will experience them anew and with joy. And those who have recently subscribe and miss them - enjoy!
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Six of our favourite Substacks:
From the Substack community
I particularly enjoy newsletters that have a regular rhythm and cadence to publishing (e.g. weekly/daily/monthly), perhaps because I find predictability deeply comforting 😌.
If you are in the same camp, then I hope you enjoy these recommended newsletters:
's notes on creative practice are short, insightful, and actionable. And come regularly each day at 8am UK time. What more can you really want?I am ALWAYS astounded by the quality of the music that Matt produces each month, not to mention his photography and curation of books, poems, and other music. His newsletter is both heartful and impeccable.
Letters of Note is a treasured archive of written letters of distant and recent pasts. It is all at once insightful, reflective, and entertaining. It’s the kind of a staple in my online diet that I may take for granted, but will surely suffer in the absence of.
's latest daily publication is something I look forward to in my inbox every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. His photographs are breathtaking, and in only a few weeks I’m developing a deep love and connection to New York - a city I have never even visited.Randall’s candid and generous reflections in his daily gratitude lists often catch me at just the right moment. His writing offers me a sustained connection to the side of my own humanity that I don’t like to put front and centre of everyday life.
I’ve never seen haikus and comics married together in such a beautiful way. Not one haiku of
has ever failed to make me smile. It's simple, unfussy and simply a wonder to experience.3.
All the songs we played and loved in 2022:
I’ve been building this playlist of songs that we’ve enjoyed in the course of the last year. Many of these I’ve discovered through recommendations from substacks like
and , and a whole lot more recommended personally by friends and other creatives in this community.So, here is 13 hours and 53 minutes of music curated with the eclecticism I hope you have come to know and love 🎶.
BONUS
A little poem that showed up, that I felt was apt to mark the Solstice and notice how the days lengthen once more as I we tread slowly toward Spring.
New Season by Michael S. Harper
My woman has picked all the leaves,
rolled her hands into locks,
gone into the woods where
I have taught her the language
of these wood leaves, and
the red sand plum trees.
It is a digest of my taking
these leaves with hunger.
It is love
she understands.
From my own wooden smell
she has shed her
raisin skin
and come back sweetened
into brilliant music:
her song is our new season.
So good as always
Hi Raphy--
Thanks for including me here! This was a great way to start my day. I'm delighted that you've found some new favorites through my project.