David Atkinson TinyLetter Podcast

Final episode of the podcast as I wind down my newsletter. I talk about being uncertain, sitting in the unknown, and transitions. If you'd prefer to read, you can find the text and the rest of the archive at www.tinyletter.com/adavetoremember // icon design @by.eilidh // insta: @adavetoremember // website: www.davidatkinson.work

My penultimate letter. Writing about my Saturn return so far, and how shaving and dyeing my hair represented an internal shift as well as an external one.In the newsletter edition & on the transcript, you can find a list of my favourite newsletters that you might want to subscribe to.  (there is no audio for this final section) If you'd prefer to read, you can find the text and the rest of the archive at www.tinyletter.com/adavetoremember // icon design @by.eilidh // insta: @adavetoremember // website: www.davidatkinson.work

Endings and new beginnings. If you'd prefer to read, you can find the text and the rest of the archive at www.tinyletter.com/adavetoremember // icon design @by.eilidh // insta: @adavetoremember // website: www.davidatkinson.work

On feeling stuck, trying to write a book, being embarrassed all the time and finding hope again. If you'd prefer to read, you can find the text and the rest of the archive at www.tinyletter.com/adavetoremember // icon design @by.eilidh // insta: @adavetoremember // website: www.davidatkinson.work

Pondering alone time, staying connected digitally, and briefly considering whether there should be a limit to how many good looking people should be allowed to exercise in a park at the same time. -If you'd prefer to read, you can find the text and the rest of the archive at http://www.tinyletter.com/adavetoremember // icon design @by.eilidh // insta: @adavetoremember //

Recounting one of my greatest public humiliations & embracing my musical 'guilty' pleasures. -If you'd prefer to read, you can find the text and the rest of the archive at http://www.tinyletter.com/adavetoremember // icon design @by.eilidh // insta: @adavetoremember //

I got my nails done and thought a lot about toxic masculinity & how doing so helped me unlearn some of the ways in which it wasn't allowing me to connect to my truest self-expression. -If you'd prefer to read, you can find the text and the rest of the archive at http://www.tinyletter.com/adavetoremember // icon design @by.eilidh // insta: @adavetoremember //

A slightly deeper dive than usual, where I explore what it can mean to redefine words for ourselves, focusing on success, failure, love & kindness. I also touch on the impact that All About Love by bell hooks had on me, and how specificity is crucial when looking to take action. I hope it channels a hopeful energy about how we can always look to grow and evolve and live contented lives, even when the world is overwhelming and scary. -If you'd prefer to read, you can find the text and the rest of the archive at http://www.tinyletter.com/adavetoremember // icon design @by.eilidh // insta: @adavetoremember //

Falling in love with Ex Factor by Lauryn Hill, thanks to a special friendship in a wonderful Summer in Paris.-If you'd prefer to read, you can find the text and the rest of the archive at http://www.tinyletter.com/adavetoremember // icon design @by.eilidh // insta: @adavetoremember // twitter: @adave2remember

In this episode I talk about grounding during an unsettling time and share a short story I wrote. It's about a formerly romantic protagonist who's given up on love, until a meet cute makes him reconsider. -If you'd prefer to read, you can find the text and the rest of the archive at http://www.tinyletter.com/adavetoremember // icon design @by.eilidh // insta: @adavetoremember // twitter: @adave2remember

My favourite reads of 2019, why I loved them & why you should read them too!-If you'd prefer to read, you can find the text and the rest of the archive at http://www.tinyletter.com/adavetoremember // icon design @by.eilidh // insta: @adavetoremember // twitter: @adave2remember

I wrote this in the lead up to Pride 2018. Thinking back to what it was like being in the closet at high school, talking about the experience of growing up gay in a heterosexual world and what Pride means to me. -If you'd prefer to read, you can find the text and the rest of the archive at http://www.tinyletter.com/adavetoremember // icon design @by.eilidh // insta: @adavetoremember // twitter: @adave2remember

I've always been an over thinker. Re-reading one of my favourite novels (On Beauty - Zadie Smith) confronted me with a character who is also prone to getting stuck in his head. Surprising no one, this got me thinking...about thinking. -If you'd prefer to read, you can find the text and the rest of the archive at http://www.tinyletter.com/adavetoremember // icon design @by.eilidh // insta: @adavetoremember // twitter: @adave2remember

I am forever falling in love with strangers, bar tenders, baristas, men on the tube. So to learn that the barista I had been unashamedly flirting with liked me back was a dream come true. But life isn't the 90's rom com I want it to be - and does online dating have a lot to do with that?-If you'd prefer to read, you can find the text and the rest of the archive at http://www.tinyletter.com/adavetoremember // icon design @by.eilidh // insta: @adavetoremember // twitter: @adave2remember

In this TinyLetter, I'm exploring how conditioned we all are to rely on our phones for directions and how it's not only changed the meaning of being lost, but how often we end up in that position. Maybe that's not always a good thing.-If you'd prefer to read, you can find the text and the rest of the archive at http://www.tinyletter.com/adavetoremember // icon design @by.eilidh // insta: @adavetoremember // twitter: @adave2remember

I wrote about an old ritual a friend & I had, that always meant a lot to me at the time but as I've grown older I can see it also had a deeper meaning - one that is extremely special to me. It's about friendship, my in-the-closet life at high school, and how even the smallest acts of kindness can last a lifetime in the mind of someone who needed it.-If you'd prefer to read, you can find the text and the rest of the archive at http://www.tinyletter.com/adavetoremember // icon design @by.eilidh // insta: @adavetoremember // twitter: @adave2remember