The Medium Chill

Welcome!

If you're here, thanks for reading! This blog is the co-creation of four people: Krissy, Tommy, Shantonu, and Katie. More about us later.

We're four (related) people in our mid-twenties to mid-thirties, all of whom like to create, invent, and write. Naturally this led us to the idea of a blog.

We were kicking around themes for this nascent creation, something to build a whole project around, and the same ideas kept cropping up:

• saying YES to living rather than just spending money/existing/being boring
• gratitude and appreciation for what we have
• being interested in our lives rather than comparison with people around us

Then we found this fabulous article: The Medium Chill by David Roberts. And his revisit a few years later, The Medium Chill Revisited. Fabulous! A good start. We liked the name Medium Chill.

What even is Medium Chill?

Well, it's actually a few things. Psychologists use the term to describe building a firm protective wall from toxic people in your life.

But in our context, it's different. That's a good idea but not what we're talking about here. As in the article, David Roberts says it's a lifestyle characterized by stepping out of the rat race and being happy with what you have. Yes, we agreed. That's sorta kinda what we're going for!

The best part about this blog is we're trying to put into practice what we're preaching. A medium chill lifestyle espouses prioritizing the relationships around you. Thus, notice the "we" that "we" write of; that's because this blog will be co-authored by four people. We're related. I'm one of the sisters. The other is Krissy. Then there's her husband, Furman, also known as Tommy. And there's my fiance (newly!), Shantonu. Here's a great way of medium chilling - writing together, creating together. Being inventors, pioneers, artists together.

Naturally, we're four people so we think different things. How I live my life is different than my co-authors here. That's good. More options. So that phrase you always see - all views and opinions expressed are entirely my own - is really true here. Things might like different from writer to writer.

But the goal of this blog is the same: to document how we say YES to opportunities for living. Getting and staying excited about life. Being invested in relationships and communities. Being grateful. Medium chilling - working hard for the things that matter, and letting go and just living the rest.

Thanks for joining us!

Katie, Shantonu, Krissy, Tommy