Image via, featuring Donni striped poplin pants. It’s the summer of the statement trouser!
+ANOTHER WAY OF THINKING ABOUT YOUR TBR PILE: Does anyone else feel slight guilt or agita over the number of books there are waiting to be read? I loved this gentler look at my TBR pile —
+ENJOYING “THE DOING” OF LIFE: I feel like I might have shared this quote from David Lynch (American painter turned filmmaker and actor) already, but it’s been leaping out at me lately:
“I’m just, you know, kind of happy in the doing of things. Even just having a great cup of coffee is happiness. Getting an idea, or realizing an idea. Working on a painting…working on a piece of sculpture, working on a film. One thing I noticed is that many of us, we do what we call work for a goal. For a result. And in the doing, it’s not that much happiness. And yet that’s our life going by. If you’re transcending every day, building up that happiness, it eventually comes to: it doesn’t matter what your work is. You just get happy in the work. You get happy in the little things and the big things. And if the result isn’t what you dreamed of, it doesn’t kill you, if you enjoyed the doing of it. It’s important that we enjoy the doing of our life.”
+BEST MAKEUP MELTING BALM PROMO: My favorite nightly wind-down ritual: melting the day off with this cleansing balm (obsessed with the rose scent). Currently, you can get a travel trio gift-with-purchase (<<details here) if you use the code CLEANSE. Great time to stock up on the balm (my favorite is rose) and also take care of skincare while traveling this summer!
+MORE OF THIS PLEASE: On senior night, every graduating varsity baseball player from this high school has one final at-bat with a pitch thrown by his father, and his mother waits to hug him at home plate. This is the kind of beautiful, open-heart practice that I love to see.
Meanwhile, sideline siblings — LOL.
+EYEING + BUYING: Some fun finds for this week…
RAILS TANK AND SHORTS SET // LOULOU FISH NECKLACE // SCHOOLHOUSE PORTABLE TABLE LAMP // LA VESTE STRIPED PANTS // ANCIENT GREEK JELLY FLIP FLOPS (LOOK FOR LESS HERE, HERE) // FREE PEOPLE SPORTS BRAS // GOOP HIGHLIGHTER STICK // LIZZIE FORTUNATO NECKLACE // MI GOLONDRINA DRESS // MISSONI TERRY SANDALS
+SHOPBOP HEARTS: Lots of great new Shopbop arrivals — all my hearts here!
+BESTSELLERS: This patterned Tuckernuck top was very popular among Magpie readers this week, and for good reason — so chic!
01. TUCKERNUCK TOP // 02. TORY BURCH UNDERWIRE SWIMSUIT // 03. MADEWELL TOTE BAG // 04. J. CREW EYELET SWIMSUIT // 05. DOEN PLAID TOP // 06. RED GINGHAM DRESS // 07. GINGHAM MINI DRESS // 08. STRIPED PANTS // 09. SEERSUCKER PANTS // 10. VARLEY ZIP-THROUGH SWEATSHIRT CARDIGAN // 11. CORD NECKLACE // 12. STRIPED SWEATSHIRT
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Appreciate this but feel “toxic masculinity” is a bit out of place here, a bit of a too-easy trope, if you will. As one of three sisters with zero experience or understanding of the world of seven year old boys, I find myself regularly delighted and in awe of the witnessing of it each day as it unfolds. My son knows he is safe to feel his feelings of course. But also there are purely masculine and feminine spheres my son and daughter naturally inhabit, and I find it remarkable to see. When my son toughs it out through being beaned at the plate, or scrapes his knee and pushes on unbothered, I don’t mark that as toxic masculinity or a suppression of things dictated by society, but rather something divine I am observing, a boy unfolding in his own purest terms. It is wholly unlike me or how I was, and I honor that. I think we do as much a disservice to boyhood when we denigrate its boy-ness as lacking something “feminine” as we do when we tell a kid to buck up and get over it. Boys are lovely and incredible whoever they choose to be. And choosing to be masculine is wonderful, and often non-toxic!, too.
Good points! I took that phrase out. I agree it’s been fascinating and beautiful to watch each of my children express themselves, and their needs, in completely different ways.
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Picked up a book last week that had been on my shelves for at least (?) two years lol so this quote is super timely! 🙂
Oh yay!!
I LOVE this quote about the TBR pile! It makes me feel less guilty about all my stacks of books!
Amen — me too!! I was drawn to it for that reason :). I always find ways to invent guilt — nice to have a little antidote.
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As Someone who’s father was not involved in his 3 children’s lives…I get the sweetness of the baseball story but also recognize how sad that must have made some of the players. For whatever reason, not having your dad or mom hurts and although I am sure the school allowed the players to have a “special person” with them…its not the same for many (not all but many).
You are so right – that would be so difficult, and I’m sorry to hear that about your childhood, too. Hoping they had some other way to support kids in that position.
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Love the Me & Em jumpsuit on you that featured yesterday! Very chic.
Thank you, friend! xxx