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Forever hoping to widen the margins in my life. Below, eleven small ways to slow down and live where our feet are:
01. Write in careful cursive.
02. After you work out, or even at any point throughout your day, lay in shavasana pose for five minutes. Time stretches like taffy.
03. Sit with a child completing a puzzle.
04. Undertaking a baking project that includes proofing, overnight rest, or other phases that call for time.
05. Read a poem, and slowly.
06. Take an everything shower.
07. Begin a trilogy. Something about the expansiveness of a serial set feels indulgent, time-defiant.
08. Take a phone-free bonus walk in the middle of the day.
09. Read something in a language you aren’t fully proficient in.
10. Instead of rushing to clear plates and get back to work, linger at the lunch table for an extra two or three minutes.
11. Kiss your spouse.
What else would you add?
Post-Scripts.
+I don’t want to be busy! And yet I find myself the very busy spider.
+Maybe it’s not about living large. Maybe it’s about living small.
+The stove works for you, and other lessons learned in the kitchen.
Shopping Break.
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+OK OMG. I need to stop with my Quince addiction but did you see they just dropped these gorgeous chunky cableknit cashmere cardigans?! Verrrry similar to Loro Piana’s $3600 style…
+Love this pearl-embellished mule and this perfect cardigan.
+Last minute addition to my kids stockings: Nerf football and moon torch projector for him, Tangle Teezer brush for her, Woom bike bells (recommended passionately by multiple Magpies) for both.
+Absolutely love the idea of layering this knit dress beneath the matching knit coat. Imagine with a suede boot and a low bun. CHIC.
+Frank and Eileen’s new striped Victoria shirts turned my head. With a great pair of jeans and flats?
+Have you heard about the Fara Homidi cream-to-powder lip compact?! I think I first heard about this from Emese Gormley, who really knows her way around cosmetics. I’m so intrigued! I’m on a beauty buying bender if you can’t tell. Also intrigued by their lip pencil. The only lip pencil I use is the Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk one and my only gripe with it is that I wish it glided on a little more easily. But the color is perfection.
+This ribbed sweater is still on sale — SO good.
+This little plaid coat from Zara is fun and very up my alley. And a great winter white coat.
+25-30% off at Nili Lotan – I know many of you are disciples of this brand. A great time to score one of her ultra chic jackets or cult-following pairs of Shon pants.
+If you are panicking about what to buy a tween in your life, apparently these slippers are it. Every week, I wait in Starbucks while my daughter is in her 30 minute guitar lesson and dozens of girls from a nearby high school flock in and out, and 99% of them are wearing these and sweats. And on the sweats front, apparently every tween wants the ones from this brand. Three separate moms mentioned them this week.
+This faux fur jacket is perfectly glam.
+Absolutely DROOLING over this bejeweled cardigan.
+Almost sold out at Dorsey — now’s the time!