AJD Is founder and editor of The Small Bow.
“Where do you find a place where books and culture are prioritized, but you have no money and smell like Alabama roadkill? The public library.”
How to forgive and then forge a friendship. New podcast launch. Poetry is Not a Luxury. Demons and Pema to the rescue.
Or "How to Be a Better Parent." Gratitude. One Minute Wisdom. Billy Collins. New Podcast Alert! Check-In Reminder.
A roundup of our most popular February posts.
“The content I’m looking at doesn’t make me feel bad, it’s the fact of looking, the fact of being defenseless against it.”
A truly phenomenal recovery week. Pema. Seneca. Emotional Sobriety -- all the damn things.
Thoughts on the resentment stage of grief.
Tales from an all-day photoshoot in North Hollywood. The best poetry compilation in awhile. New tune that's just the best. Hopes. Fears. And the rest.
God for the tone deaf. Thich Nhat Hanh. More emotional sobriety lessons to last a lifetime.
Emotional sobriety at the end of the world. Thomas Merton. Maggie Smith poem because why not. People to rally behind.
A new prompt for this month. Buddhism Megablast! Pema/Kornfield. More Ram Dass.
Maggie Smith is this month’s TSB Poet Laureate.
On personal growth. Fav poem about the current apocalypse. Tolstoy in a pinch. Depresh Mode.
It's resolution, baby. Jenny Odell. Alan Watts. Jim Harrison . And David Duchovny.
To be sober or something sober-ish in 2026.
The art of comparing and despairing. Check-In prompts. Louise Glück.
“I have let go of many things but wonder what fears remain. What do I hold on to for protection that is actually imprisoning me?”
A writing prompt to help you reflect.
The most popular essays from a year that definitely happened, and is, I promise you, almost over.
Updates on the changes to our newsletter platform. Plus the usual Sunday recovery rundown.
TSB’s Poet Laureate Club returns. This month’s poet: Sydney Lea.
Plus the usual rundown: Philip Larkin. Thomas Merton. Thich Nhat Hanh.
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“I wasn’t sure from moment to moment whether I was enjoying myself or not. I kept asking myself if I was doing something I didn’t want to do, or doing something wrong.”
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