A personal-development newsletter from a former start-up founder turned end-of-life guide, built around the idea that awareness of mortality can help people live more fully. Issues mix reflective essays on death, gratitude and anxiety with promotion of a free mini-course and paid live workshops.
Website: https://newsletter.aliveness.be
A philosophy newsletter and podcast offering short meditations and conversations on living well within the limits of a finite life, drawing on Stoics, Simone Weil, Dostoevsky and others. Readers get reflective essays, podcast episode notes and a closing question to carry through the day.
A novelist's personal essays on writing his new novel set in Naples, interwoven with memoir about war survival, cancer surgeries, family and memory. Readers get reflective, literary reflections on craft, mortality and Kundera's idea of eternal return.
A personal newsletter where Mariia Fedoruk-Betschki reflects on creativity, curiosity and the pressure to make writing serious, alongside musings on books and mortality. Readers get short, candid essays about the act of making and writing as a way of thinking.
A short newsletter pairing poems by writers such as Anne Carson, Grace Paley and Wendell Berry with moon-phase notes and updates on the author's 13 Moons diary. It reads as a personal, contemplative sampler built mostly around quoted verse and product announcements.
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