A Playlist For A Warm(ish) Winter

Capturing the feeling of being in this peculiar season of in-betweens.

Hello friends,

It’s been a strange winter here in New York. On most days, I can get away with wearing my lightest jackets and my fewest layers. The forecast has been a volatile one: sharp plunges into throat-aching frost, afternoons of toppling wind, sunny mornings that’ll have you sweating through your jeans and turtlenecks, with random bursts of gloomy overcast in between. When the new season began, the trees on our block fought to change their leaves, dappling the sidewalk with their frustrated sheds of red and gold. Now, their bare branches stab at the sticky snowfall and the soil around their roots freckle with salt a neighbor recklessly scattered.

You would think that growing up in South Florida would make me hostile to winter, but I treasure the moment when I can finally start pulling my sweaters out of storage and begin brewing big steaming pots of tea every morning. Yet, even now in January, I still occasionally find myself wearing t-shirts and skirts, cracking a window try and cool down, and I regularly find my commute filled with people uncomfortably dressed for climates their weather forecast apps struggle to predict. I decided to make a playlist to capture the feeling of being in this peculiar season of in-betweens.