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Issue 7 | August 12, 2026

Hi Friend,

Somewhere this summer, my walks picked up a story.

Lately I've been lacing up, pressing play, and letting a good narrator carry me somewhere else for a few miles. The loop around the block stays the same. The trip never does.

Here's what's been in my ears, and might be worth being in yours. (One of these three is the best thing I listened to all summer.)

Exploring · Belonging · Carrying

Exploring: from neighborhood loop to deep space

This one turns a quiet walk into an interstellar rescue mission. One minute you're passing the same mailbox, the next you're light-years from home, solving a problem no one else can. Ray Porter reads it. (His Rocky voice alone is worth the download.) If you're going to walk with it, the Socorro Cowboy Bootis fitting — celestial print over desert, for a story written among the stars.

🎧 Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir, narrated by Ray Porter

Belonging: a story about the people who show up

Theo of Golden is about kindness and the small community that quietly forms around one person. Puffins know the feeling — they gather in crowds, return to the same shores, and look out for their own. Fitting, then, that the Lundi wears a hand-inked puffin design and is 100% vegan. A shoe about togetherness, for a story about the same.

🎧 Theo of Golden — Allen Levi

Carrying: the strength we inherit, and pass on

The Waterbearers follows three generations of Black women in one family: Sasha's grandmother Betty Jean, born on a Louisiana cotton plantation; her mother Connie, coming of age in the Texas bayous; and Sasha herself, growing up in 1990s Houston. Water runs from grandmother to mother to daughter, and so does everything else that had to be carried — the tenderness and the trauma, what was said and what was buried.

Sasha Bonét reads the audiobook herself. Her voice is silky, full of gravity, and holds all of it — the beauty and the ache, in the same breath. The most captivating listen I had all summer. Poetry and wisdom in equal measure.

Two lines I keep sitting with:

"Their intimacy was forged in reminding each other of home despite their insistence on forgetting. They never spoke of the past, but their calloused hands and the cadence of their breath told the stories they had laid to rest inside themselves."
"I was raised to believe that each of us is the sum of our grandmothers' prayers."

The Badass Black Slip On is what I wore to walk with it. Understated, cushioned, unshowy — a shoe that carries you when a story is asking a lot of you.

🎧 The Waterbearers — Sasha Bonét (narrated by the author)

"After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world."

— Philip Pullman

More shoes with a story

A few things I'm noticing

Cicadas doing their end-of-summer encore, louder than any narrator.
Three library holds coming through at once, always.

Wishing you long routes, good narrators, and a story worth slowing down for,

xo, Vonnie

P.S. What's in your ears on the trail? Reply and tell me.

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