Dear Reader, There are less than 6 days until The Tortured Poets Department releases. By this time next week we’ll have entered a whole new Era, have heard 20(!) new Taylor Swift songs, and finally gotten more insights into this new album - it’s starting to feel real, isn’t it?! 🥹 Leading up to the release, I’m sending out some TTPD-themed newsletters, to help get us prepped and ready to go for the album.

My latest offering, Soulful Cycles: Creating Intention, Ritual, & Ceremony for Life-Changes, is a 3-week exploration for connecting to ALL change as sacred. Wednesdays, July 26 and August 2 & 9, 6–8pm ET, on Zoom. 🌊 Learn more and register here. 🌊 Hi friends I hope this Sunday 🌗 last quarter moon has been good to you. Brooklyn is hazy today and I am finalizing today’s links before I rewatch this (which is also the first one below).

Price: $3.69 Weight: 145g Texture: Soft / Moist Taste: Savory Pair with: Literally anything with flavor I have to say, I’m a really big fan of smoked fish. I could eat it for literally every meal. The last time I was at Trader Joe’s I realized that I had never tried this tin before, so I picked it up (along with others) and looked forward to reviewing it. Surprisingly, this fish had me critically thinking about what makes a tin good or bad.

Creed III is notably the first entry in the nine-movie franchise not to include Sylvester Stallone’s, Rocky Balboa. Stallone obviously couldn’t get in the ring forever (though 2006’s Rocky Balboa featured Stallone in the ring, the last time Stallone was believable as a boxer is 1985’s Rocky IV). The time is now for director and star Michae… ncG1vNJzZmihpKjBqbHPopqtraKawG%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2ibopqypXnIoqBmqpWrtqbDjJumsaGenHq1wdGnqmaZnp66pg%3D%3D

Not Fade Away, a 2012 film directed by David Chase, takes place almost entirely in the suburbs of New Jersey but begins half a world away. Its opening moments depict a fateful 1961 train ride shared by two young Londoners — one a student at Sidcup Art College, the other on his way to London School of Economics — during which they discuss their mutual love of American blues and R&B.