If one of my letters brought you here — welcome. I’m glad you walked over.
I’m Farook — 69, retired, writing from my kitchen in Vung Tau, Vietnam. The letter you just read lives here, along with everything else I’m writing about the inside of retirement: the loneliness, the meaning, the small joys, and the tools that actually earn their place in a good life.
Here are the doors, depending on what you came for.
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The front door — a short page that points you to the right first read, wherever you are right now.
Start Here →The latest letters
Everything I’ve written, newest first — the same honest writing, kept in one quiet library.
Browse the letters →Free companions
Small printable companions to the letters — menus, maps and gentle practices for the week.
See the companions →Who is Farook?
Forty years in manufacturing, one Tuesday morning in 2019, and everything that came after.
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However long you stay — thank you for walking over. The kettle’s always on. — Farook