Jun 11, 2026 · 16 min · 12 segments
hello and welcome (back) to Persistent Bloom, 4 years later we've reset and are sharing essay dispatches in an audio format to see how sharing as a pod once again feels if you would rather read this…
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It is a shift in format and a simplification to allow me to have a lot more time to work on my art.
So if you hear the words that I'm going to read to you and you also sign up for my email newsletter and you're realizing this sounds kind of familiar, Mel, it's on purpose.
So I am going to be going through my newsletter archive as well as sharing some of the things that I share on my email newsletter over on Substack as videos and podcast episodes.
And I have been recognizing myself that I've been pulling away from YouTube more and more the deeper it seems to get into weirdness this year.
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