 | | May 10, 2019 | Boug-ie nights
| | This week One of the greatest things about being a journalist is that when you get really interested in someone's work, you can just call them up and talk to them about it. I recently read Jenny Odell's How to Do Nothing, which I loved. It is a book about the power of art and nature to help us resist the ways social media has conditioned us to consume and participate in the world. You can listen to me and Jenny in conversation on today's episode of CYG.
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| | GIFspiration  Remember when this was a joke and now it's what all the cool kids wear? Moms are playing a long game in every sense.
| | I endorse The art of the care package. In honor of Mother's Day I'm going to shout out one of the finer life skills I was taught by my mother: Sending great mail! (Truly she is a care-package icon.) This week I mailed some treat-filled packages to five newsletter subscribers who filled out my survey and were lucky enough to win the drawing. Here are a few things I included: And here are some things I've sent in care packages to friends and family recently:
| | You've got answers How do we brush off a bad day? Let me summarize many of our answers with this checklist: - Listen to Lizzo.
- Go for a walk or a run.
- Eat something delicious. A whole goddamn charcuterie plate, hummus and pita, popcorn, burrito, tater tots, chocolate covered pretzels, raw cookie dough, really good pasta, Ethiopian food, salt & pepper potato chips.
- Watch something comforting, such as Drag Race, VEEP, Friends, Great British Bake Off, Kardashians, a Studio Ghibli movie.
- Take a bath. Crystals/candles optional.
- Pour an adult beverage or light a joint.
- Masturbate. (Shout out to the person whose three-word answer was "flick my bean.")
Here are some other bad-day coping mechanisms we have: - Cooking something that involves chopping, peeling and prepping a zillion different things
- Dancing in my kitchen to a cheesy pop song, preferably Justin Bieber's 'Sorry,' followed by vermouth on ice
- Lying on my floor as my dog stares apathetically.
- Ordering takeout sushi, enough that the waiter gives you 2 sets of chopsticks and you correct them that "oh thanks, but it's for one"
- Tending my plants. Watering, pruning, dusting each leaf. It's meditative, caring, and refreshing. A positive to negate the bad.
- Driving around on the prettiest streets I can find in my city on a meandering route to get myself a treat (ice cream, fancy coffee, fancy cocktail, etc.)
- Nothing is more curative than belly laughs with good friends. Preferably over a game of Things.
- Blasting my playlist of extremely angry, profanity-filled songs that speak to me and I yell along at the top of my lungs.
- Reminding myself that I had one last week and can't even remember what happened. Pain is a brief memory.
- Going to bed at like 9. Sleeping a lot always makes for a better day tomorrow.
My answer? Honestly, it usually resembles the checklist up top. If I'm being mindful, though, I know I almost always feel better if I make something. Baking a dessert, working on a sewing project, pulling out my cheap acrylic paint set, making a postcard to mail to a friend. That way I can end the day like, "Well, that was 99% awful but at least I collaged that delightfully weird birthday card." I am really enjoying this Q&A thing we've got going. Here's next week's question: What's a piece of advice that you dubiously took from your mother as a teen that you now thank her for? << CLICK HERE TO ANSWER. >> [Ed note: Feel free to replace "your mother" with "a nurturing authority figure". Also sorry this is not applicable to any subscriber who is ~still~ a teen!]
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