part 1: your body wasn’t anything special until it rebelled content warning / injury? just kind of a gross medical thing. i’m sitting in the lobby of the doctor’s office waiting to be seen about a growth on the side of my ankle that appeared about three months ago. it’s likely a ganglion cyst. i…

intro i don’t like the way this newsletter has turned out. i just wanted to preface with that. i really liked how my last newsletter read, so maybe i’d gotten my hopes up thinking i’d be able to replicate that. silly me, waiting for it to happen again. silly me, waiting. this is all i…

part 1 today’s newsletter is titled after one of my favorite songs as of late, and the song i’m listening to as i write this now: “yesterday” by noname. it’s the first song on noname’s debut mixtape, telefone—which is a perfect collection of music, by the way—and talks about the chicago-born artist’s late grandmother, growing…