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🏙drive to ur favorite street (or walk there if it abets itself to such) and walk the length on both sides. if financials allow stop for a reward treat/drink/item along the way! tbh i love how this both enriches ur connection to ur city and gets u outside when the weather is nice and also could be a good excuse to try new places and things! i went for a drink special at my favorite cocktail bar and it didn’t disappoint
Jul 3, 2024
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🍎get lost on the trails and catch up with your friend, then pop out wherever and get some food
Mar 19, 2024
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🚶This is my #1 absolute all time favorite activity. If you have approximately 2 hours (ideally in early fall or early spring) with nothing in particular to do, take a walk around the city with no destination in mind and see what happens. Maybe you’ll make eye contact for a moment with an attractive person in the crosswalk on 17th and 3rd and see your entire lifetime together flash before your eyes. Or you could catch a glimpse of yourself in the reflection of a Chase bank and remember that you are indeed a person who is alive and on planet earth. Maybe you get an overpriced coffee for some human interaction, drink 2 sips and throw it out while feeling bad about yourself. However you choose to spend that time, it’s yours to waste, and a way to experience the city without the errands and dramas one usually faces in New York. And it’s a great way to hyperfixate on a guilty pleasure song. Recommended tracks for this activity: “Bittersweet Symphony” by the Verve or “I Had a Dream That You Were Mine” by Hamilton Leithauser and Rostam.
Dec 29, 2022
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Courtesy of my handy dandy Storygraph app
The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination
- I am a heavily involved BDSM girly (i love the movie Secretary if u guys get that reference), and I'm excited to see how this book navigates domination, authority, and pleasure mixed in together
Women Who Run with the Wolves
- I'm very excited to get into my Lilith era and see if this book speaks to her. I bought this book around the time I bought the Goddess book
East of Eden
- I saw Brittany Broski describe the book's plot and I knew I had to put it on my list
Dracula
- I'm obsessed with Bram Stoker's Dracula and I think it's time for me to dive into this masterpiece fr
The Iliad
- I saw a tiktok describing the intro of the book and the fact that people are saying Dr. Emily made this the easiest translation of the epic, and this will help me dive into classics more bc I really want to read more of them
The Fire Next Time
- I'm such a James Baldwin nerd and I want to get into more of his works so badly
The Inner Tarot: A Modern Approach to Self-Compassion and Empowered Healing Using the Tarot
- I'm an astrologer/tarot reader, and I want to try to integrate tarot in a more practical and tangible way in my life
Now will I get thru all of these books in 2024? Maybe! Maybe not, but I'm excited to see where the year takes me <3
- I saw Brittany Broski describe the book's plot and I knew I had to put it on my list
Dracula
- I'm obsessed with Bram Stoker's Dracula and I think it's time for me to dive into this masterpiece fr
The Iliad
- I saw a tiktok describing the intro of the book and the fact that people are saying Dr. Emily made this the easiest translation of the epic, and this will help me dive into classics more bc I really want to read more of them
The Fire Next Time
- I'm such a James Baldwin nerd and I want to get into more of his works so badly
The Inner Tarot: A Modern Approach to Self-Compassion and Empowered Healing Using the Tarot
- I'm an astrologer/tarot reader, and I want to try to integrate tarot in a more practical and tangible way in my life
Now will I get thru all of these books in 2024? Maybe! Maybe not, but I'm excited to see where the year takes me <3
Apr 23, 2024
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Inspired by sofe sharing her recipe POMELO HOOCH recipe. Limoncello is also easy to make as long as you are patient. It's simply an infusion. It's cold steeping tea.
My basic recipe:
Ingredients— 750ml 190 proof grain alcohol 10 lemons 250ml honey 500ml water
Preparation— Peel the lemons while avoiding the pith (white part, adds bitterness) and place the peels in a large container with an airtight seal (I use a similar jar with a swing lid). Juice the lemons and add up to 250ml of lemon juice to the peels. Pour in the grain alcohol and seal the container. Place in a cool, dry place away from sunlight for two weeks. Gently swirl the infusion once a day.
After steeping, strain the infusion through cheesecloth into another container. Combine the honey and water to make a syrup. You can do this in a pot on a stove by stirring and bringing it to a simmer. I prefer to put them in a large mason jar and shaking the hell out of it. Pour the honey simple syrup into the infusion and stir. The concoction will turn from clear to cloudy due to the ouzu effect.
You now have limoncello. Transfer to bottles (I like using one like these) and either enjoy immediately, chill in the freezer, or put away in the cool, dry spot to mellow further.
My basic recipe:
Ingredients— 750ml 190 proof grain alcohol 10 lemons 250ml honey 500ml water
Preparation— Peel the lemons while avoiding the pith (white part, adds bitterness) and place the peels in a large container with an airtight seal (I use a similar jar with a swing lid). Juice the lemons and add up to 250ml of lemon juice to the peels. Pour in the grain alcohol and seal the container. Place in a cool, dry place away from sunlight for two weeks. Gently swirl the infusion once a day.
After steeping, strain the infusion through cheesecloth into another container. Combine the honey and water to make a syrup. You can do this in a pot on a stove by stirring and bringing it to a simmer. I prefer to put them in a large mason jar and shaking the hell out of it. Pour the honey simple syrup into the infusion and stir. The concoction will turn from clear to cloudy due to the ouzu effect.
You now have limoncello. Transfer to bottles (I like using one like these) and either enjoy immediately, chill in the freezer, or put away in the cool, dry spot to mellow further.
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From the Atlantic: ”There is no statistical record of any other period in U.S. history when people have spent more time on their own.”
I don’t know anything about you—how funny is that? I couldn’t even begin to guess what your life looks like. I couldn’t spot you in a crowd. If I were a friend, I’m sure I could give better advice. Perhaps suggest joining a local group  I know of, or a class at the gym that always puts me in a good mood. Perhaps introduce you to someone I’ve always thought you’d get along with.Â
The beautiful thing about the internet is that you can ask this question to the void and the void speaks back. It’s so much easier this way, but so much worse.Â
Geography, family, shared interests, shared labor. Community used to be inescapable. We still depend on each other for everything, but we do it all at a distance. I’ll chat for an hour with a friend across the country, but I know nothing about the people across the street. It’s a selling point if the grocer can name the farmer who grew your food. I could have been writing this to send to a distant family member, who I want to reconnect with, or an old friend—instead I’m writing to you, a stranger. It’s easier. Our community ties have been broken.Â
So: what do you, an individual, do? You may find more success if you develop individual friendships tied to a place—several articles about the loneliness epidemic talk about the gym—or a group that meets regularly. Apparently, the best way to beak down peoples’ walls is just to see them constantly. This is true for new friends and for deepening relationships. For those friends and acquaintances you’d like to be closer to, keep inviting them to shit. Set your boundaries, but keep trying. The thing about people is that everybody is interesting and confusing and stupid and wise and mean and wonderful—but it’s safer to spill all that on the internet, where no one can spot you in a crowd. Let people know that you’re around and interested no matter what, and see what happens. It will take a long time, but it’ll be worth it. Not just for you, but for them. For everyone, if we all put the effort in.Â
I’m sorry—it shouldn’t be this way. But we have to try. We’re all counting on each other <3
I don’t know anything about you—how funny is that? I couldn’t even begin to guess what your life looks like. I couldn’t spot you in a crowd. If I were a friend, I’m sure I could give better advice. Perhaps suggest joining a local group  I know of, or a class at the gym that always puts me in a good mood. Perhaps introduce you to someone I’ve always thought you’d get along with.Â
The beautiful thing about the internet is that you can ask this question to the void and the void speaks back. It’s so much easier this way, but so much worse.Â
Geography, family, shared interests, shared labor. Community used to be inescapable. We still depend on each other for everything, but we do it all at a distance. I’ll chat for an hour with a friend across the country, but I know nothing about the people across the street. It’s a selling point if the grocer can name the farmer who grew your food. I could have been writing this to send to a distant family member, who I want to reconnect with, or an old friend—instead I’m writing to you, a stranger. It’s easier. Our community ties have been broken.Â
So: what do you, an individual, do? You may find more success if you develop individual friendships tied to a place—several articles about the loneliness epidemic talk about the gym—or a group that meets regularly. Apparently, the best way to beak down peoples’ walls is just to see them constantly. This is true for new friends and for deepening relationships. For those friends and acquaintances you’d like to be closer to, keep inviting them to shit. Set your boundaries, but keep trying. The thing about people is that everybody is interesting and confusing and stupid and wise and mean and wonderful—but it’s safer to spill all that on the internet, where no one can spot you in a crowd. Let people know that you’re around and interested no matter what, and see what happens. It will take a long time, but it’ll be worth it. Not just for you, but for them. For everyone, if we all put the effort in.Â
I’m sorry—it shouldn’t be this way. But we have to try. We’re all counting on each other <3
