The Babbling Brook

About the Substack

Reflections on the art of living well: finding joy, making meaning, and navigating the forces that make this difficult.

About Kate Brook

Author, walker, adoptive Londoner, Buddhist-curious spiritual dabbler, lover of nature and music. My first novel, Not Exactly What I Had in Mind, is available now.

Is this your Substack? Request changes.

The Babbling Brook's recommended Substacks

Dispatches From the Fringe logo
Seth Lorinczi

Dispatches From the Fringe

Stories about punk, psychedelics, and the search for what it was all about, anyway. Barely Jewish, occasionally funny.

1K+
free subscribers
Letters from a Muslim Woman logo
Noha Beshir

Letters from a Muslim Woman

I share honest experiences of life as Western Muslim through the lens of mental health, motherhood, faith, and the multi-generational immigrant experience.

2K+
free subscribers
Stories I Tell Myself logo
Emily Frisella

Stories I Tell Myself

Fortnightly-ish personal essays, culture writing, and reading recommendations

Audacious Women, Creative Lives logo
Anne Boyd

Audacious Women, Creative Lives

Inspiration from audacious, creative women in the past , plus opportunities to connect--because we're all in this together.

100+
paid subscribers
8K+
free subscribers
What Is Woven In logo
Emily Wick

What Is Woven In

Writing on art, creativity, and living in the far north by Emily Wick, a writer and fiber artist.