While there’s a lot of uncertainty ahead, we’re going to get through this week, this month, and this rollercoaster of a year--I promise! To fortify your patience and resilience for the days ahead, here are some suggestions:

The guiding philosophy of Getaway is that building and maintaining a balanced, meaningful life requires free time—not just for rest and rejuvenation, but to foster inspiration, creativity, relationship-building, and self-determination. Starting this Labor Day, Getaway will be celebrating “Labor Week” by shutting down business for the whole workweek. Read more from our founder, Jon Staff.

This month, our founder, Jon Staff, invited Mikah Meyer, travel writer and founder of Outside Safe Space, to share reflections on making nature more inclusive for the LGBTQ+ community. As a tribute to his dad, Mikah visited all 400-plus sites in the National Park Service, and he wants to encourage everyone to travel — and be your authentic self.

I’ve always found civic engagement incredibly inspiring, and never more than over the course of the last year. In the early days of the pandemic, I witnessed the myriad ways Americans came together in the service of our country and each other, as folks got together to sew masks for frontline workers, and mutual aid groups organized to deliver groceries and medicine to vulnerable community members.

this month we're celebrating Pride by spotlighting our LGBTQ+ guests, creators, and community. Additionally we’ll be donating to the three organizations highlighted below. We hope you will join us in championing their efforts.

This month, our founder, Jon Staff, is passing the mic to Sophia Li, a Chinese-American journalist, advocate and director whose work focuses on the intersections between climate and social justice to hear more from her on climate optimism.

I don’t think anyone would disagree that this Year of Covid has been uniquely stressful. But Stress Awareness Month isn’t just about recognizing that stress exists in our lives. It’s about differentiating between the kind of stress that can light a fire under us, and the kind that feels like it’s grinding us down.

I’ve been thinking about the language we use to describe our relationship to time. We spend time. We invest time. If we’re foolish, we waste time; if we’re wise, we budget it. And of course, we long for free time. Notice a theme?

After a long winter and the exhausting pandemic year surrounding it, good things are finally coming. Good things are already here.