My Angel Darlings,

Not me making you guys beg for me back...

HAHAHAHA I’M KIDDING I would never do something so cruel I PROMISE. These three weeks away from you guys have been the most torturous and painful of my life. I’ve missed you like a mother misses her own child. how lucky are we to have something in life that we miss!! we miss each other!! that’s so sweet!!

Cross my heart the absence has been for good reason! I’ve just been the busiest boy and simply have not found the time or creative energy to craft the newsletters you guys deserve.

I’ve been consumed by things of all varieties! Some of which we will get into in this very newsletter! (really just the fun things). I have always found the saying when it rains it pours to be abundantly true in life. Everything always seems to happen all at once - isn’t it funny how that works.

I hope you all have been well and have been taking care of yourselves <3 please do send me updates on your life. I love reading your notes!!

But now the rush has subsided and I’m curled up on my couch listening to jazz and writing away feeling content once again.

We have so much to catch up on <3 let’s get started.

SONG OF THE WEEK

The song of the week is to be listened to in the background while you read the newsletter! I have a Spotify playlist that will serve as a database of every song of the week :)

the lack of newsletters might have been for the best. As you might recalllllll when we last checked in I was suffering from an insatiable rap hankering. It lasted for weeks. You guys would have been exhausted of me. like you don’t need 2008 Gucci Mane as your song of the week.

ANYWAYS - fortunately for all of us I have shaken the rap bug and we are back on track.

it was only a matter of time before I wrote about Peter Cat Recording Co. Truly one of the most influential bands in my life.

I remember vividly the first time I heard their music. I had never heard anything like it - that is still true to this day.

Floated By in my mind is the natural entry point to introduce you all to their work. it’s warm and approachable. makes you feel fuzzy. like you’re inside of a lava lamp. I love the horns. I love that the lyrics mean exactly what they say. time just floated by.

They are from India. My Grandpa is from India. I am Indian. that makes me so proud. such beautiful and creative music coming from the country of my people!!!

I hope you guys enjoy. They are on tour right now too - you should support them if they are playing in a town near you <3

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

The video of the week this week is the music video for Floated By.

Filmed at their frontman’s, Suryakant Sawhney, wedding - they perfectly encapsulated what compelled them to write the song in the first place. time passing. people growing and changing. As they noted in an interview about the meaning of the song:

In 8 years, we learned, we shared, we grew, got married, got singed, got better and our new album is a culmination of that journey.

the videography is beautiful to me. Indian weddings are incredible. ugh I hope you guys enjoy. Their other music videos are just as incredible.

AFFIRMATION OF THE WEEK

Please read this aloud no matter your location or surroundings:

✨ IF I AM SLEEPY, I MUST SLEEP ✨

✨ I WON’T DOOM SCROLL WHEN IT IS TIME FOR ME TO SLEEP ✨

holy shit. I have never had this problem before in my mf llyyyffeeeeee. Idk what has got into me recently. I downloaded this game. It’s called Block Blast! PLEASE DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT YOU WILL NOT SLEEP EVER AGAIN - you will think about it every waking second of your life. you will even try to take out your phone and play at red lights.

sleep makes us beautiful and it restores our bodies. being beautiful is so fun and so important.

watching content at 2 am serves us no purpose. sleeping and dreaming about beautiful things serves us LOTS of purpose.

One of my new years resolutions this year was to limit my weekly screen time. one of my KEY strategies for doing this is minimizing screen time first thing in the morning and before bed. there is NOTHING that icks me out more about myself than when I open my eyes in the morning and the VERY FIRST THING I DO - before I even roll my stupid ass out of bed - is open social media. I open my phone.

I will say I have made a concerted effort and it has been… somewhat successful. I could do a much much better at the before bed portion of things. I feel if I can train myself to control my phone usage during those hours of the day, I won’t be so obsessive over it during the day as well.

if any of you have any tips and tricks to this end please let me know.

HENRY’S ADVICE COLUMN <3

Ok - starting Henry’s advice column from scratch. you guys know what to do. if any of you had submitted advice previously that I had not gotten to and it is still applicable please resend!!!

email me or respond to this newsletter with what you need advice on and i’ll provide my thoughts in future weeks ❤️ 

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it means a lot to me that so many of you were inquiring about the status of the newsletter. I’m sorry for such a long hiatus. I’m just a boy doing my best to keep up with everything!! inevitably some things have to take the back seat once and a while. I will be in Miami next week on a brand trip and some personal travel as well so I likely won’t report back until the following week.

I love you all so much. thank you for all the support and love you show me.

I’ll see you guys next week <3

Yours alwaysalwaysalwaysalways,

Henry