A weekly note on making, taste, and other small habits.
Sent every Saturday by Theo Vogel — an editor in Copenhagen. Reads in five minutes, free, without ads, sent for as long as I’m around to write it.
Lately, on Sundays.
On the patient art of not finishing.
A short note on the comfort of returning to abandoned things.
Why I gave up on a perfect inbox.
On letting go of the system in favor of the practice.
Three small wonders, this week.
A short list of things that delighted me — including, briefly, a duck.
A library of openings.
On Iris’s notebook of first paragraphs and what makes some of them finish.
What I’m up to, this week.
Updated when something changes — usually monthly.“The Country of the Pointed Firs” — Sarah Orne Jewett.
Slowly, on the train.
“The Late Show” — Mary Oliver, read by herself.
A long-form piece on attention.
Due to the Editors next month.
Earl Grey, with a little milk.
I’m Theo.
I’m a writer in Lisbon. I’ve worked at small publications, run a few internet things, and now I write Dispatch on Sundays. The newsletter is free, and the only place I publish a regular column anymore.
You can read more about me on the about page, find me on the usual platforms, or — best of all — write me a letter back. I read all of them. I sometimes reply.
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