happy 5!!!!!
Summer 2025 (Issue No. 76!)
hello loves!
Happy summer, happy belated Father’s Day, happy early day of Independence, and happy 5 year anniversary to me/us!
It was next month five years ago that I sent my first baby love letter on this here platform after moving over to Substack from my Zen Coach Colby Squarespace site!
I remember it exactly, sitting in bed in the guest bedroom on the Eastern Shore where we had been living since March, tapping the keys on an old MacBook air. The world had changed overnight (GUYS, REMEMBER 2020?!) and was still changing, and I felt myself grasping for something to hold on to.
I was also still fighting my way to well-being, and had turned to research on love to anchor my approach.
What started as a way to send out regular meditation practices to friends and family far and wide during the coronavirus crisis became a way toward self-care and self-healing, and a way toward a more serious writing practice.
This love letter may be silent for a while as I pour my limited focus time into some large works that have been sitting in my heart for so many years now.
In the meantime, please enjoy the 75-issue Archives and such reading as:
What is Love essays
Poetry Pause series (paying subscribers only)
The Artist’s Way creative recovery series
There’s loads of good stuff in there, if I do say so myself :).
And for those paying subscribers, please always feel free to revisit your subscription. These Substack subscriptions ultimately help me pay for marketing my work and getting it out in the world! New authors have to do a LOT of self-funded promo. Thank you, thank you.
As always, thank you for following along!
all love,
Colby
And don’t be a stranger! Want to chat about something you’ve read on here or have an Artist’s Way/ yoga/ writing question? Email me anytime at colbymackenzieloves@gmail.com.
Laters babes, and ENJOY YOUR SUMMERS!
