Collected Goodness ☼
Wisdom, Wonders, and Ways of Living Well
Collected by: Ethan Maurice
WELCOME:
Same Essence / Born Anew
After seven years of writing Late Night Letters, today, the essence behind those letters is born in a new form: Collected Goodness.
The current tagline is: Wisdom, Wonders, and Ways of Living Well.
Collected Goodness is a curated monthly email. An artful assembly of the most useful, insightful, and profound things I’ve found throughout the month — in your inbox.
It may include: ideas, articles, photos, quotes, books, poems, albums, videos, tips, tricks, how-to’s, and in-person possibilities the world round.
It’s like a collection of curious things I’d send my deepest friends. Actually… that’s exactly what it is.
So, a warm welcome to Collected Goodness!
Let’s begin.
PHOTOGRAPH:
We Are In This Together
In 2026, I’ve shipped more In This Together Bumper Stickers than there have been days in the year thus far! In a world of imagined divisions and self-generated crises, it helps to expand our perspective.
QUOTE:
Read this zinger from The Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh twice over and extra slow. Deep thanks to Dan for gifting a copy to everyone at WONDER WANDER 2025. It simply and utterly wowed me.
PODCAST:
Rick Rubin & George Saunders on Tetragrammaton
George: “When you get up in the morning and you’re thinking about work, what’s motivating you now — at this point in your life?”
Rick: “Just whatever is on the schedule for that day, I don’t think past...”
George: “Would you describe yourself as ambitious still, or ambitious ever, or is that a word that doesn’t…”
Rick: “I want to do good things. I feel like to live up to my purpose there’s work to do.”
George: “I love that…”
Rick: “Ambitious is not the word I would use, though. Ambitious somehow implies outcome… ambitious would be, ‘what am I going to do to make the outcome happen?’ And that’s not what it is.”
POSSIBILITY:
Do you sow soulful community (in your community)? I’m joining a few deep friends in forming Soul Community Lab, a virtual collective that meets quarterly to talk shop, compare notes, and share insights & practices around growing sacred community in place.
NEW ARTICLE:
A Bicycle for the Mind
The year is 2026, and we’re wading deeper into the technological age. It’s time we recognize something obvious but rarely said: if we take our tech as it comes — out of the box, from the app store, or at sign-up — it will relentlessly try to hijack our awareness.
NEW HOMEPAGE:
After releasing 17 Ideas That Change My Life, fall felt a letting go of what was, and winter, a sitting bare with what is. This February, some new creative shoots began to sprout.
In addition to this first Collected Goodness, a new, video-heavy, very-alive-feeling homepage has emerged. After months of inner fall and winter, I feel thoroughly re-centered — and ready for spring.
Collected Goodness ☼
Collected monthly by Ethan Maurice
Delivered: February 28, 2026
