#34: introductory letters

a 'blessing in letters' sample platter.

Jul 09, 2024

Hi guys,

On Sunday, we hit 200 subscribers! To the newbies, welcome! I am glad you’re here, and I am immensely honored that you deemed me worthy of a subscription. It means the world to me. Let’s do some introductions, shall we? My name is Blessing and I loveeeeeee to talk.

As a certified yapper with nowhere to go, I started this newsletter as a haven for fellow yappers of mine, a space where we can yap and philosophize on the littlest things. Blessing in Letters is a weekly newsletter about love, life, and everything in between. I love to write about myself and the world around me, and my motto is “ too many questions, not many answers”. I want to ask and probe and explore, and I am hoping you want the same too. My goal this summer – and forever –is to take this newsletter very seriously so dare I promise that I will never produce a half-baked, thoughtless piece.

Thank you for being here. Thank you for reading, commenting, and restacking. I hope you stay forever, I hope we become friends (I mean that. I want to be friends with you all), and I hope we have a good time!

your thought daughter-in-arms,

blessing <333.

P.S: If you’d like to get familiar with blessing in letters, here are some of my most-read essays so far:

#32: do we need people?

Blessing Maraizu

Jun 24

do we need people? There is a growing sentiment on the internet. Slowly, this idea has seeped into the walls of our collective lives and is looking to replace the objective truth. It has wormed its way into our psyche, affecting us even when we are least aware of it. The sentiment? That we do not need anyone, and we can go throu…

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#33: boy sober.

Blessing Maraizu

Jun 30

I am a self-proclaimed loser in the game of love. When it comes to crushes, when it comes to sorting through those sticky, unrecognizable emotions, I am clumsy and uncoordinated, like a foal learning to stand on its four feet. For that reason, I do not like having crushes. I liken having a crush to feeling about in the darkness, arms stre…

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#19: BABYHOOD.

Blessing Maraizu

Mar 24

‘dear blessing & krystle’ makes a comeback. Please send your entries here.

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#15: a young lady's miseducation on the idea of love.

Blessing Maraizu

Feb 18

#15: a young lady's miseducation on the idea of love.

On the day before Valentine's, you get a text from a boy. It read: "Hey...do you want to hang out tomorrow? Just the two of us?" Instead of being elated, annoyance flames your body and your brow thins with irritation. You show your friend the message on your phone and as she reads it, she chuckles ruefully, shaking her head. You ask her "What do I say?…

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#30: On Zooming Out.

Blessing Maraizu and Fatima Mohammed

Jun 9

Fatima Mohammed. Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about how desensitised I’m becoming to the stories I hear and the news headlines I read. We don’t have to search to find bad news. It finds us where we are and the feelings of helplessness and hopelessness grow each day within me like a thriving tree bearing copious amounts of rotten fruit.

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A guest essay by

Fatima Mohammed

#12:our rules for female friendships.

Blessing Maraizu and Krystle

Jan 21

editors’ note: Krystle: Behind every successful woman, is her hoard of equally strong women to lift her up. The bond that women find within each other is a necessary haven that we all must seek to create, nurture and actively cultivate. I haven’t had the conventional group of girls that are represented in movies and teenage dramas, but rather I have gain…

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—A collab post with

Krystle

See you on Sunday!

#34: introductory letters

a 'blessing in letters' sample platter.

#32: do we need people?

#33: boy sober.

#19: BABYHOOD.

#15: a young lady's miseducation on the idea of love.

#30: On Zooming Out.

#12:our rules for female friendships.

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