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Miscellany: A Small Thank You ( + Printable Postcards)

Published 17 days ago • 1 min read

The Long View Letters

Issue 06 (June 28, 2026)

The Long View Letters

essays ~ miscellanies ~ invitations

Hello!

It feels like a year since the last Miscellany. How are you doing?

I have been practicing crosswords and making collage fodder again. Collaging is such a therapeutic process for me - it deserves a whole letter. There is also a book I recently finished reading that felt like one of the best books I’ve read in a long time — but we'll keep that for later.

For now, I’ll be honest and say that I have found it challenging to grow this subscriber list. It isn’t entirely surprising. Social media has always been tricky for me. More than a decade on Facebook and I have somehow kept my friend list to forty people. A decade on Instagram has meant more of the same.

What problem am I solving? What is my niche? What is the MVP?
How diligently should I man the borders of my digital persona?

All these questions can probably only be answered with essays instead of epigrams.

However, I'd love it if The Long View Letters could be the start of a shift. So, if you find any of this good enough to share with even one person, please do. I’ll stick around too (even though hibernating has been programmed into my DNA since childhood).

In the meantime, I just want to thank you for being here. For opening my email. For reading. It means ever so much.

So without much ado, here are a couple of thank-you postcards I made recently.

​Download the postcard set.

Until next time,
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Skendha
The Long View Letters
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P.S. Tell me something beautiful and ordinary from your week. I like to make a list on most days.

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Skendha Singh

Are you tired of the 'everything-everywhere-all-at-once' world we live in? The Long View Letters is a quiet corner for the overwhelmed. Think of these as notes from a fellow traveler who has been marking inches of the same gravelly way we call the creative life. Come and linger.

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