My Angel Darlings,

Ok holy fucking shit remember last week when I ended the newsletter with that line about - I, Henry Claudius Smith, promise to never EVER procrastinate again.

Well that was a big fat lie. that promise is a fucking lie

it’s 10:26 pm on wednesday night - a mere 7 and a half hours before this newsletter is due to hit your inboxes - and here my stupid ass is sitting down to write it…

what’s worse is I’m far from sober. i’ve had a shaken DIRTY kettle 1 martini (my favorite) and a bottle of - what had to have been - the gnarliest tasting chilled red wine i’ve ever had. I do love the natural wine movement. I love the bottles. I love that they are making wine accessible and approachable for all. but some of them taste like shit. there I said it.

ok - I digress

I can sense change is coming - I can smell it in the air. I feel it my bones!! I started this newsletter as a way for me to share ALL of the different things I want to share with you guys on a weekly basis. BUT!!! I fear i’ve buried myself in a whole by sticking to the same structure/template every single week WHICH is robbing me of that freedom of expression I created this newsletter for in the first place!! with THAT being said here is my thoughts on how I will iterate moving forward:

• I will continue to include weekly affirmations and song of the week every week

• the rest of the newsletter will likely vary week to week based on what I’m feeling inspired by during that particular week

• As for Henry’s advice column - I’m thinking I will start RECORDING my responses to your submissions each week so I can respond to multiple and provide better/more insightful responses

  • these will be uploaded to YouTube and linked to in this column

  • I will plan to start this next week…….

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 :)

In regards to this weeks song of the week here is all I have:

• dontask only has 12,000 monthly listeners

• I actually don’t know a single thing about about them other than what their Spotify bio tells me which is: brother and sister that started this project in 2018 and made some music together - dontask :)

• my senior year of college this song found it’s way across my desk. don’t know how don’t know why. its really special to me

• I hope you guys love it a bunch like I do

AFFIRMATION OF THE WEEK

Please read this aloud no matter your location or surroundings:

✨ I AM STEPPING INTO THIS WEEK WITH CONFIDENCE, GOOD ENERGY, AND THE UNDENIABLE FACT THAT I LOOK AMAZING DOING IT ✨

✨ GOOD THINGS ARE UNFOLDING FOR ME, EVEN IN WAYS I CAN’T SEE YET — I’M EXACTLY WHERE I NEED TO BE ✨

uuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmm ok uuuhhhhh yeah that’s all I have there. those felt really good to type out. like really fitting for this week. not for any particular reason….. manifest queens!! get what’s yours!!!

guys i’m sorry but i’m having so much fun writing this weeks letter. feels extra. good. yay :)

HENRY’S ADVICE COLUMN <3

my advice column is for myself this week - be realistic with yourself in future weeks please. you knew you had a work trip for three days of this week. you knew you needed to block off time over the weekend and on monday to work on this newsletter.

next week we will start a new format. I will come back strong next week. the last two weeks have been jam packed with so much…. crap.

NO EXCUSES.

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’s 12:15 am and I need to go to bed desperately. week 5 we have hit our first catastrophe. I hope you guys can forgive me. i’ll make it up to you. some how. some way!!

I’ll see you guys next week <3

Yours alwaysalwaysalwaysalways,

Henry