Magazine Deliverance — Reading to Relax
It may not surprise you to learn that we really enjoy relaxing while reading a magazine or a book. When magazines arrive in the mailbox and we get to sit with them, they offer deliverance from much of the strife in the world. Add to that all the great sailing publications, and it’s a lot of great reading.
A favorite day walking to the mailbox includes the arrival of monthly National Geographic, which has been a fantastic magazine since it was founded in 1888. Amazingly, on the same day, Mountain Gazette arrived, and it publishes only two issues a year. Mountain Gazette was founded in 1966 and went out of print for a while until Tahoe City resident, publisher and Sierra skier Mike Rogge restarted it in the peak COVID era of 2020. He’s done an incredible job of revitalizing Mountain Gazette as a beautiful new coffee table magazine. As you can see, the issue that arrived yesterday starts with a stunning cover photo. One of our other favorite subscriptions is The Atlantic magazine, founded in 1857. As Mountain Gazette says, “Print Ain’t Dead,” and it lasts a long time!
A magazine subscription greatly improves our trips to the mailbox. If you subscribe to Latitude 38, perhaps we’ll be around as long as those above! It will surely make your or a friend’s trip to the mailbox better.
Getting a magazine like National Geographic once a month, or Mountain Gazette every six months, is a very different experience from the endless streaming of news on antisocial media. It’s the lesson of delayed gratification we try to teach our children. Luckily for you, the wait for the next issue of Latitude 38 is almost over. This Friday, the 31st, is delivery day (and Halloween) for our November issue. It includes a sailor having fun on the cover, stories on the sailing life of Don Trask, Cayard’s induction into the America’s Cup Hall of Fame, a junior sailing coach spotlight and … you’ll just have to see on Friday. Our delivery drivers are happy it will be a sunny day to drive.
Last week we spoke with a reader in Seattle who says he always looks forward to the next issue and visits the West Marine store in Bellingham, WA, as soon as it arrives on the fifth or sixth of the month. Bay Area deliveries and subscribers usually receive it by the first; farther out it takes a little longer. Picking one up will help you have a relaxing weekend.
Let us know in the comments below your favorite magazines, or what and how you read when you take a break from screens. What’s on your coffee or bedside table?
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