The Weekly Light

Vol. 12 - January 24, 2025
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Founder's Corner

Welcome to the new home of the Weekly Light!

Sending out the Weekly Light as an email newsletter served us great in the beginning, but there have been a lot of limitations to the format that I’ve been eager to resolve. 

So, we’re giving the Weekly Light a permanent home on our site - and you can now view the entire archive to see issues you may have missed, stream music while you read, search for past recipes & recommendations, and easily bookmark or share any content with a friend without needing to forward them an email. 

There’s also a new comment & discussion section at the bottom, which is a dream come true to turn this from a one-way newsletter into an ongoing conversation with you, our community of readers. I hope you’ll use it.

It was a lot of manual work to get all the previous content transitioned over, so let us know if you notice any formatting issues or broken links, and we’ll continue working to improve the way everything works.

So, without further ado, here’s the latest Weekly Light!

- Seth

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From Our Table To Yours

The Best Egg Salad Sandwich

A perfect egg salad sandwich is such a comfort food for me.

But I’d always avoid making it at home because of the chore of cooking and peeling all the eggs.

If you’ve got a knack for peeling eggs, then by all means rock out with your bad self. But, our local Costco sells pre-peeled hardboiled eggs, and it’s made recipes like this (and deviled eggs) a dream for me.

The addition of lemon, zest, scallions, and parsley take this recipe to the next level, and you’ll immediately see why it lives up to the title of the Best Egg Salad Sandwich.

What We're Listening To

Whoa. OK, I was planning to share Cat Power’s latest release Redux here (I still will), so I was listening to it while writing this. 

When the short EP ended, the algorithm gods gave me Cat Power’s I Think Of Angels, a track from the 2021 film Flag Day that I had never heard. 

I immediately had to stop writing and just listen. Then I got teary-eyed and had to listen again. One of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard? Yep.

Next thing I knew, I was going down the Wikipedia rabbit hole, learning how it was originally written by Icelandic musician KK. His older sister died in a car accident, and he wrote this absolute masterpiece of a song, while waiting to go on stage shortly after her funeral. Cat Power’s cover is beautiful, but don’t miss the original, sung by KK’s other sister, Ellen Kristjánsdóttir.

And once you’ve finished crying too, it’s time to get back to where I started and give Cat Power’s new EP Redux a listen. 

The 3-song EP begins with an inspired cover of James Brown’s “Try Me”, follows up with a revamp of her own “Could We”, and ends it all with a cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” as only Cat Power can. Enjoy.

- Seth

Product Spotlight

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Do it good.

- Charles Wright
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