Hey y’all, For years, I have dreaded the weird no man’s land between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. Because I set my own hours around here, I never know what I should be doing. Should I be working? Should I rest? Should I do both? I was delighted when Meg sent me Helena Fitzgerald’s recent piece, “All Hail Dead Week, the Best Week of the Year.” Finally, a term I can use. “Dead Week!” Fitzgerald says instead of dreading Dead Week, she looks forward to it all year long. She frames Dead Week as a “nothing time” in which nobody really expects that much of you and nothing you do matters that much.
What I’m doing with Dead Week is not giving up, but letting go of the year. Dead Week for me this year is one of pausing (even though, uh, I’m still writing this newsletter, I guess), looking back, and relaxing. Here are three things I plan on doing…... Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Austin Kleon to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. A subscription gets you:
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Tuesday, December 27, 2022
How I’m spending Dead Week
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