Join me in "Connect x3," a biweekly newsletter

Hi friends, 

Many of you opening this email used to subscribe to my beginning-of-the-pandemic weekly newsletter honoring memories from NYC neighborhoods as a way to keep the city’s spirit alive during lockdown. Others are those I think would enjoy something like it. Curating that newsletter amongst acquaintances, friends, and even strangers with a shared fondness for New York brought me so much joy, getting me through the darkest months of the pandemic. 

Since then, I’ve reflected on and have had lots of conversations about what I want to do and build up within my life. Much of it comes back to what it was I loved most about that newsletter: connection. Noticing it, experiencing it, building it, and sharing it across people, places, and experiences. 

And so, I’m launching a new newsletter that I hope you’ll enjoy and help me build, “Connect x3.” 

Every other Sunday, my goal is to send 3 stories to your inbox, told in whatever length the writer feels makes sense — about moments of connection, whether they be happy, sad, angry, humorous, platonic, romantic, fleeting or long-lasting. 

At the very least, I hope this newsletter fosters a sense of community through shared connection in all the forms that can take. At best, in a time when many of us may still be struggling to reconnect with the world again, I hope it sparks an excitement for what’s possible when you open yourself up to the possibility of connection, wherever it may lead. 

The first edition of Connect x3 will go out on Sunday, January 29, 2023. If you have a moment of connection you’d like to submit for consideration, I invite you to send it to me directly at this email address: [email protected]. (And let me know if you’d prefer me to include it anonymously! All stories are welcome.) 

If you need a prompt to get you thinking, try this: When is a time you felt connected to someone even without saying a word to or knowing them? For me, one example comes to mind: I was on a night run during the initial, particularly isolating months of the pandemic, when I ran by a guy doing the same but going in the opposite direction. As he passed me, he smiled and gave me an air fist bump as if to say, “You got this, we got this, keep going.” 

I look forward to connecting soon,

Katie

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