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№ 79: Allowing Those You Love The Right To Be Wrong

Why you’re getting this: I’m Jason Nguyen. I run Bloomstory.co.uk and The Mailroom. This is my newsletter. I used to write this every week, but now I send this out when I can — life got in the way. Updates on what’s been going on in my life are at the bottom of this newsletter.

a year ago 124 votes
№ 77: Reflecting on 2023

Doubt, love and growing more into myself.

a year ago 74 votes
#13 Writemas: Merry Christmas!

This will be the last issue of Writemas ‘23. It’s been tough juggling this, Bloomstory and other projects, but it’s been a lot of fun producing these short emails. As we enter the last week of the year, I’m trying to let the dust of 2023 settle so that I can regain

a year ago 44 votes
#12 Writemas: All The Pieces of You

There’s a quote by Jorge Luis Borges I came across that I think about a lot. It goes like this: “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”

a year ago 54 votes

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