Creator Mag Issue 07 “TOUCH GRASS”
A Letter from the Editor
A Letter from the Editor
Don’t look now, but the world is on fire.
I don’t mean to hyperbolize. Still, every conversation I have with peers these days seems to inevitably boil down to a core bucket of topics. Existential questions around artificial intelligence. Political violence. Free speech and media consolidation. Never-ending wars abroad. A future controlled by the few, not the many.
Those conversations are important; pessimism is valid. Yet it’s easy to lose yourself when everything feels bleak.
I won’t claim to have all the solutions. Nevertheless, when all else fails, there’s something I keep returning back to: nature, with a good book in hand.
What you are about to read is a series of stories created by a dozen contributors—and curated by the Creator Mag staff. These stories are connected through a colloquial phrase, “Touch Grass,” that’s taken off among creators and viewers alike. And over the next seventy-odd pages, we’ll transport you from a Twitch streamer’s animal sanctuary in Austin, Texas, to a sleepy mountain city in south-central Japan. We’ll check in with a weekly tea club in Chicago, Illinois, as well as John Chungus, the seventy-something retiree whose viral “Touch Grass Day” led millions to actually, well, ya know.
The words you’ll find in this magazine are utterly human. They will not cure society’s ills. They are sometimes serious, sometimes silly, and consistently imperfect. They are the center of this creative neighborhood we’re building.
We hope you sit with them for a while, and us. Maybe touch some grass in between, too. Oftentimes, a simple, intentional moment of reconnecting with nature (however fleeting) goes a lot further than you think.
— Nathan Graber-Lipperman, Lead Writer & Publisher
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