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Good morning! Email subscribers received a special edition Summer Kit this morning with printable intention cards, recipe cards, a summer playlist, shopping roundups, summer finds, and more. I had so much fun compiling this digest, and it left me feeling more prepared and excited for what lays ahead. Subscribe here to receive it in your email.
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This year, I’ve organically fallen into a habit of identifying a single-word intention every month or two. I’m not precious or calendared about it, but I’ve found myself intuitively seeking a mantra to repeat in moments of tension or tenebrosity. This year, I’ve focused on words like yutori, flow, space, ease. Between the density of funerals, the loss of our Tilly girl, and recovering from the situation I wrote about earlier this week (not trying to be elliptical, just observing privacy here), I suppose I’ve needed the yardage. I love the visual of “easing my way through things” versus “making my way to the other side” — in the former, I’m gliding through clement waters; in the latter, I’m hurdle-jumping onto pitiless pavement.
The other day, Mr. Magpie and I were walking out of the wine shop together, and the salesclerk called out: “Alright, folks — take it easy.” I thought: amen, sir. That’s just what I’m going to do. Take it easy. You know I can’t resist an easily-forged connection to HRH Mary Oliver, so let me again share her fabulous couplets from the second half of “When I Am Among the Trees”:
Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come into the world to do this,
to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine.”
A bit longer than my standard one-word formula, but I’d like this summer be about “going easy, and being filled with light.” Looser schedules, lots of outdoor dining, less makeup, more movement.
What about you?
A pretty little summer mood board below…
A few beautiful summer finds…
SERENA & LILY COUCH // POSSE LINEN DRESS // LILY OF THE VALLEY HAIR CLIP // RATTAN LAMP SHADE COVER // HILDON WATER // SEERSUCKER NIGHTGOWN // KATIE CORLEY CUPS // MARYSIA SWIMSUIT // WEEKEND SKIN // JOIE BOOK // RATTAN CHAMPAGNE BUCKET // ANCIENT GREEK SANDALS // JULIET DUNN DRESS // CELINE SUNGLASSES // SARAH BRAY SUNHAT
Some great summer recipes to try…
A Cocktail for Mezcal Skeptics
P.S. Imprints of a new lifestyle. (On trading New York’s charms for suburban bliss.)
P.P.S. The sun still rises.
P.P.PS. Getting ready for sunny days ahead.