Dear reader,
Tidings for the beginning of the second half of 2026. May it bring you love and tailwind!
Hiya from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada! I'm writing this on Canada Day (like our 4th of July) in Canada. The spirit is spiriting! I'm here exploring opportunities in front of and behind the camera through the extensive film/TV projects filming here. It's an exciting step in this long-awaited part of my creative career.
This landscape, majestic mountain ranges and immaculate bodies of water, holds stories worth telling, so it's no surprise to me that projects made here are finding global success. You just feel it when you land. I sure did.
It's an extra joyful time to be here because, as a host city for the World Cup, Switzerland faces Algeria tonight at BC Place. Outside my hotel, watch parties elicit earthquake-levels of cheer. Flags, vendors, whole diasporas’ hopes in their players. Not a theory of togetherness. Togetherness itself, on a Tuesday.
Vancouver is a thoughtful city. Everything is intuitive. Cozy SeaBus ferry, smooth SkyTrain, you can walk everywhere, you can bike everywhere. To my great pleasure! Speaking from experience, bike Stanley Park and the Seawall for at least half a day AND walk the entirety of the Spirit Trail in North Vancouver for a Pacific Ocean sized flood / North Shore Mountains sized peak of happy hormones!!
British Columbia is the most real and idyllic place. Spot prawns, pulled that morning, sold by the person who caught them. No middleman, no fluff. Just the prawns and the human who caught them. That's this place in one plate. A man in a suit stopped mid-stride on the Seawall, laptop bag still on his shoulder, and just gazed at the mountains and the sunlight glimmer on the sea.
Locals seem to have a built-in compass — the natural world always in view, recalibrating what matters most.
So, I ask you: what are you really working for? And for you, what cannot be sacrificed for the sake of so-called productivity?
I think we'll find good living in the answers.
Wishing you soft landings, high altitudes, and a cool breeze driftin' on by, just like a BC seaplane and like Vancouverite crooner Michael Bublé singing to youuu.
With much love & to going beyond the surface, Anjali