JOURNAL

Venice, CA • Established 2012 • Handmade & Created By Matthew Schildkret

Soft sunlight coming through a window

Hello from wherever you are,

If you’re reading this, you’ve made it to November, 2025. Good on you. You’re here mostly because of your ancestors, each one carrying you — in their imperfect way — to this moment. And now the torch is yours. You’re the witness, the continuation, the one tasked with making meaning in a world that still doesn’t quite know what to do with itself. And in all of this, laughter is still one of the quiet forces that carries us.

For me, the world has revealed what it’s always been: a place for souls to work things out. The essence of who we are is forever trying to harmonize with what surrounds us — our inner storms, our outer noise, our flashes of grace and collapse. How we move through that constant dance is Life. It’s ours to shape, to share, to weave into something whole. And in that wholeness, we sometimes find enough laughter to refill the soul.

LAUGHTER KEEPS US HUMBLE


Laughter keeps us humble. It brings us back to ourselves. It softens the edges of everything we can’t control. Even in seasons where the world feels uncertain — or painfully certain — laughing reminds us that we’re still alive, still evolving, still connected to every human who has ever needed a moment of release. Through our ancestors and through our own lives, laughter becomes both inheritance and offering.


 
With Love, 
 
Matthew Schildkret
Founder, Creator, & Humble Guide
Late Sunday Afternoon