How we used to do it, and how we might again.
JS the Wld is the name Jonathan Sexton writes and sings under. One fellow from East Tennessee, by way of Nashville, with songs, a letter most Saturdays, and a book he's been at for years. Pull up a chair.
What this is
It's all one thing, wearing different clothes.
The songs and the essays and the book are all worrying the same bone: what's worth keeping, and how you hold onto it, when everything around you is built to move faster. I come at it sideways, mostly. Through a melody, or an old story, or a letter on a Saturday. Whatever gets closest.
The work
What you'll find here.
A letter most Saturday mornings. Life and how it's changing, music and technology, memories and old news, how we used to do things and might again.
Read and subscribeA book about the power of a song, years in the making, under the mentorship of New York Times bestselling author Kathryn Aalto.
About the book
I'm not looking to go back. I'd just hate to leave the good part behind.
Who's back here
Jonathan Sexton
Jonathan grew up in East Tennessee, up the road from where Dolly did, and calls Nashville home now. His dad handed him records and told him who played on them before he could read, and it mostly stuck.
He played music for a living for a while, a Bonnaroo stage and an award and a world record he's still a little embarrassed about, then taught school, built a few companies, worked in technology, and studied AI at MIT, close enough to the machine to know what it can't do. He writes and plays under the name JS the Wld.
Most Saturdays, I write a letter.
It's called The Storm Door, and it's about whatever's got my attention that week. Life and how it's changing, the good of it and the bad. Music and technology, memories and old news. How we used to do things, and how we might come around to doing them again. It's free, and short enough for one cup of coffee. Leave your name and I'll meet you there Saturday.
Read The Storm DoorThe letter lives on Substack. This is just the porch.