Luxury and Pleasure vs The Spiral

Licking cheese dust off your fingertips.

Hello from here. Sometimes I struggle with how to start these letters - this is one of those times. I’m thinking about so many things and feeling very NEW YEAR amped up and I want to just do and make and write and hug the universe and try to wear a tie and MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT, and dye my hair blonder and start lifting weights and be better, and I want it all now now now. I feel like I can’t really synthesize my thoughts, it might be because I’m on day eight million of the winter break and I haven’t gone pee without at least one child in the room for over fourteen days, or it might be the Love is Blind reunion I have playing currently in the background, but I’m in this manic state of grabbing THIS and THAT and THIS OTHER THING so this letter is all over the place. But that’s also the topic of this letter.

I’ve said this in every letter for the past few weeks - but I keep thinking about luxury. The idea of luxury. I saw a lot of in/out lists at the end of 2024 declaring “quiet luxury”a…