tiny newsletter #169: lagoon city

hello hellooooo, 

coming at you live from venice! a beautiful city where the roads are water, there's endless tourist shops to ignore, and we went on a treasure hunt to find our airbnb keys - they were in a padlock attached via chain to a window grate, lol. it's the last stop on our grand italian adventure!

favs from 48 hrs here: reading about the history of st. mark's square while sitting in it, drinking bellinis at harry's bar, sitting in giardini reali, a garden full of blooming honeysuckle, and smelling every scent at santa maria novella, the world's oldest pharmacy (est 1212, no joke). 

in addition to bopping around, we are...

📺 watching survivor. madeline is in a bracket to predict the winner so i've caught up quickly. now i'm into it - rooting for kyle + kamilla's impressive teamwork and using surfshark to watch. 

📚 reading living an examined life: wisdom for the second half of the journey. this book by jungian psychoanalyst james hollis is an introspective guide to an intentional, fulfilling life. we've been reading a chapter out loud every night and letting the wisdom infuse our dreams. 12/10.

🎧 listening to so much girlypop music. you're telling me there's new maggie,haim, AND lorde rn? an incredible overlap in the venn diagram of my musical interests tbh. also this, hahaha.

🎤 sadly missing rent for cheryl. nyc friends psa: one of my oldest childhood friends isabelle post and her band are in town to play at piano's tmrw! they're amazing, you gotta go!! snag tix here.

~ bonus section ~ 

👀 venice details 👀 glass letters, multitasking gondolier, gorg doorbells, mosaic sign, the v best chips in our humble opinion. 

💌 and that's the tiny letter! thank you for reading, xo aud