Good to remember that you can rest. You can slow down now, the world will keep spinning. Tis the season to take a breather. There’s plenty on the other side. P.S. Give us your mailing address.

There’s a nap waiting. Hot tea in the afternoon too. A book you’ve been saving to savor. Now is the time for hibernation, for rest, recovery, for family and friends. The end of the year is upon us. We’re taking a nice, spacious break and we hope you’re able to, too.

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We’ll be back in action January 5 with full hearts and batteries and a project load that would make our parents say “What is it you do again?” We make dope stuff for good people, dad. And we’ve been doing it for five years now.

That’s right, Field of Practice turns five this winter. Pretty sweet little milestone for a small business. And because we are who we are, we’re going to celebrate it by making something cool together. We’ve done it before, inshallah we’ll do it a hundred more times before we’re through.

For our fifth anniversary, we’re making a zine. Risograph, likely. Beautiful? Definitely. We know for an actual factual fact that people are hungry for the handmade and the human—lovely little objects and mementos that show evidence of thought, complexity, and genuine care. So that’s just what we’re going to make. Something we can put in the mail, that you can receive and open and hopefully hold onto. There will be lessons, reflections, prompts and provocations. Sound like something you want? If so, just send us your details and come late winter, it’ll be in your hands. We love having something to look forward to.

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ON OUR SHELVES

If you’re looking for something to sink into the couch with, we got you. If it’s poems you’re after, try Playlist for the Apocalypse by Rita Dove or Joy Harjo’s How We Became Human. Our good homie Emily Hyland has a second collection we can’t wait to get our hands on, but for now, you can get her first one: Divorced Business Partners. It’s exactly what it sounds like. Nermin’s been loving A Few Rules for Predicting the Future, by Octavia Butler, with art by Manzel Bowman, as well as Art is by Makoto Fujimura. If you took our advice two months ago and picked up a copy of Infinite Jest, but have yet to crack into it, consider joining novelist (and Kristin’s husband) Kyle Beachy for his winter/spring communal reading workshop: “Thirty Years Later: Reading Infinite Jest in an Era of AI Slop.” Email Beachy for more info.

Stay sharp out there. Your mind is your own, thank goodness, gorgeous animal, complicated creature, capable of infinite and communal wonder, genuine kindness, pro-social mischief and so much more.

But first, go get some rest. See you in 2026.