Belated introduction

I'm just a year late

I wish I could start this off by promising you that I’ll stick to a more or less regular posting schedule. However, I do not trust myself enough to make any promises concerning regularity. Unfortunately (depending on how good this newsletter turns out.. who knows!! It might be terrible) new letters will probably appear very erratically.

I will try not to spend too much time on editing (because if I allow myself to do that you’ll get one letter and a half a year) so I apologize if it sounds rough and draft-like (because it is.. and isn’t every work of art a draft anyway? Things never get truly finished. Every time you make something you’re trying to reach something, grasping at air, and you probably end up getting it wrong, and so you start again and again. Art is about making mistakes, attempting to get close to the unreachable. But I digress)

As for the name I chose for this newsletter, it is a reference to a piece of music by Adrianne Lenker. It makes me feel at peace. It mixes natural sounds, like wind passing through chimes and birdsong, with music made by an acoustic guitar. I listen to it when I’m feeling anxious, or when I’m trying to fall asleep. I close my eyes and imagine the garden I’ll have one day (shh.. wishful thinking). Birds hovering on branches, blades of grass tickling my ankles, the lilting sounds of wind chimes. Mostly chimes: I’ll try to make my newsletter about the things that bring me peace, but there’ll probably be other less cheerful things I’ll discuss.

Anyway this is getting a bit too vague, so here are the kinds of things you can expect to see in my posts:

-me rambling and more nonsensical writing(diary entries)

-essays

-things that touched me (ranging from movies to essays to paintings to fiction to poetry to a photograph to a silly Tumblr post to music to fashion to perfume to architecture and many many other things (I am easily touched, or I’m trying to be))

-attempts at fiction or poetry (probably terrible)

Note that English is not my native language (I am French), so I apologize for any grammatical errors that may appear or if the wording sounds a bit off.

Lastly, if you go visit my profile, you’ll see a few of my substack recommandations, all of them writers that inspire me and that I love. Reading them inspired me to start my own substack, so telling you to go devour everything they’ve written is my way of thanking them!

Xxxx Cosima