toothbrush, cash, charged up headphones, perfect book, snack, literally start walking/driving/riding
read at a perfect restaurant
tunes on park grass
coffee amble
look at every shirt at the thrift store slowly
move on the minute you feel like it, home whenever it feels right, turn off your phone for as long as you can, even if only 10 minutes.
Apr 24, 2024
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really makes you feel like the main character you deserve to be.
Bonus points if you stop to pick up a book or magazine
Jan 28, 2024
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No music, quiet, just listening to anything and everything you can. it can be your own footsteps — focus on your pace if you want. If there are birds near where you live I’d highly recommend the Merlin Bird ID app for birdsong identification. It’s crazy what simply existing in the presence of another living thing can do, especially when that something isn’t human. if you live in a city, listen for people’s laughter or children’s voices. When I feel all consuming sadness it often helps for me to get moving (I like hiking but I live in a place that allows it) but it also helps to listen, and in doing so imagining that I am the same as everything else — the birds, the air, the ground. It takes the pressure off existing.
Jun 28, 2025
Literally turning everything off and going into nature and not looking at your phone. Bring music and bring a journal. bring a book, too, while you’re at it.
Nov 26, 2024
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Doesn’t have to be an all-evening affair. warm with some cheap epsom salts and drops of essential oil will soak through your skin and calm you. Take your tea in there, listen to three songs. It resets.
May 1, 2024
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’24Ins: errands and running before/after 8a/p, actually spf, bitters and soda, outdoor movies w/headsets, cutoffs and huge loose shirts, big earrings for weightlifting, loudly sharing political views with octogenarians, fruit for dinner, memoirs with pencil in hand, fresh beach towels by the door, robes, leaving the minute I feel like it
‘24Outs: grease at night, sunburns, cold shrimp for the picnic, working late, grocery hauls, hosting overdone theme parties, alcohol, more than one pair of shoes per outing, rushing anywhere for any reason, nonfiction for work, “because I said I would”
Apr 21, 2024
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used to read it once a year. I like to hold it and walk outside like a diva.
Jun 13, 2025