do you like to be read to?

if so, here's an audioessay and a 20% discount to celebrate the braid's second birthday

The other night, I read the first half of this two part essay in front of an audience. I hadn’t read from anything — besides my book — in many years and it felt really good to read out loud.

I loved reading my audiobook. Words become a different animal when you read them out loud and I’m aways surprised by how I hear words vs how I see them.

Anyway! I only read the first half because I only had ten minutes to read and had I read both it would have taken… longer than that.

But after reading one half aloud, I felt like I’d left the second half hanging, and then I got the idea to read them together as an offering for subscribers here.

I know that for many of us, it is far easier to listen to a twenty-minute essay than it is to read one, so this week, I recorded this one in its entirety for anyone who wants to listen. (You can listen to audio essays with ease on the substack app which I highly recommend downloading if you haven’t already!)

If reading my work is something you would like me to continue to do, please let me know in the comments and I will record long-form essays of my newsletters for paid subscribers.

But first, here’s a freebie:

FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY, A PAIR OF STOOPS:

Thank you all for your support these last two years! The braid would not exist without paid subscriptions and your willingness to support my work financially is why I am able to self publish from this platform and write freely. Thank you for keeping the lights on for me.