Weekend Reads v. 18.10.2024
Smack dab in the middle of cozy season
From sewing projects to my success at replicating holiday decor featured in the stack of catalogs on my coffee table, it appears I have officially entered my DIY era. And I love it. What are you up to this weekend? I’ll be sewing and putting the finishing touches on Halloween costumes for Le Hubs and me. Here are a few links to help you start weekend mode.
The people who consistently have a dozen browser tabs open may rejoice to know Google just introduced tabs for documents. (I had 18 browser tabs open whilst writing this)
On a related note, Google Docs are the ideal travel guide, and I feel so seen by the people interviewed in this article!
“This is my Roman Empire,” Emma Bates, a 31-year-old from New York, says of her New York City doc that she’s been updating and perfecting over the past eight years. At any given time, docs like Petrarca’s and Bates’ are being sourced, edited, and passed among friends of friends looking to get something more authentic out of their vacations than the traditional tourist hit lists.” (Source)
Take your family photo to the next level of weird.
It’s cozy season! Everything seems to be described as cozy, especially food. Proof here and here. Also, yum and yum.
It’s a William bonanza, and I am here for it. Williams Sonoma Home just launched a line that features William Morris’ iconic botanical designs.
Bet you didn’t have Dungeons and Dragons as a terrific group-therapy technique on your bingo card for 2024!
“By interacting with situations as a character, players can potentially enjoy some emotional separation from their personal responses. “A lot of what I end up doing implicitly with D&D is helping people shift from a self-focused view of their emotions as a problem to a systems lens understanding... recognizing our emotions are adaptive and an outside-in phenomenon instead of an inside-out judgment of our worth,” explained Vinny Malik Dehili, a staff therapist at Vassar College.
“So D&D helps people mentalize and think in terms of ‘why does this person feel this way or act this way?’ If I have a character that’s the opposite of me—like I’m more accommodating by nature and I want to be more assertive—I can think about their backstory and say, ‘Well, what would have happened to them in their life to make them have to be this way?’” he said. (Source)
Wherever you are and whatever you get up to this weekend, take care!