8.22.2026 | 💕 I can't hold everything I love at once with AmyAnn

Happy weekend —

I am delighted to welcome AmyAnn back from maternity leave and as our curator of today’s edition!

Our full-time, internal team is small and all of us overlap often and meaningfully. Her absence has been felt and missed as she’s been out this summer, and we’re so glad to have her as part of our daily lives again.

As our Co-Founder and CEO, she needs little introduction, so let this serve as more of a very warm welcome back after a summer away tending to another kind of very important work. 💛

xx Kate

💛 Welcome back, AmyAnn!

It’s so good to be back. A few days before I went on maternity leave at the end of May, I wept at the thought of stepping away from work. (Dramatic, I know!) But I felt that sorrowful ache of saying goodbye to something that I love, if only for a time.

When it’s your second child, you know from experience what a great many things will fade away the moment your baby is born, as you give yourself over to sustaining your newborn child’s life and recovering from their delivery.

It hit me at that moment that we cannot hold all the things we love at once. And perhaps we aren’t meant to. I started drawing upon other times in my life when what was required of me was a singularity of focus, a kind of pure devotion.

It was this way with my first daughter, and during my graduate studies. I’ve never had quite this intensity with my work, always innately reserving a part of myself. But in my studies, and in the caring of my newborn babies, I have allowed an eclipse of my world. I have given myself over, completely, for a time, in these seasons of peak intensity.

We talk so much about balance, as though a good life is one where everything we love is held in perfect proportion. But perhaps a meaningful life is one in which we take turns loving things utterly, completely...