5 Quick Things: Summer '25 Edition #5 ☀️

an abbreviated edition of your favorite weekly letter

I’m currently taking my summer screen sabbath in order to focus on finishing my book manuscript—while I do, here’s your mini 5QT…

Summer Day, by Ivan Shishkin (1891) #

1. From the essay archives: Why We’re Required to Find Beauty

2. From the podcast vault: Why Read Classics to Our Kids? (ep. 139)

3. A newsletter I enjoy: The New Jerusalem

4. Something I love: This hair oil

5. On my summer agenda: Morning and evening walks, even if they make me sticky—because who cares, really?

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Want to write your own Rule of Life?👇

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Have a good weekend,

-Tsh