What are you up to this weekend? We are knocking around the neighborhood — maybe card games on the stoop, maybe a boys’ sleepover. And I’m planning to clean out some closets, which is always meditative and satisfying, don’t you think? Hope you have a good one, and here are a few links from around the web…
A conflict expert suggests reframing conflict as an investment in your partner. “We tend to think of conflict as antagonistic, but conflict can actually be incredibly prosocial. So, very simply, it’s checking in and saying, Do I care about this relationship? And counterintuitively, if I do, let me get in there.” (NYTimes gift link)
I wore this shirt on repeat while traveling in Scandinavia. (Photo evidence here.)
The frustrating thing about Swedes, according to Will Ferrell, hahaha.
Mothers share their texts and google searches from their darkest days — such an intimate snapshot of postpartum anxiety and depression. (Marie Claire)
Do or don’t: salad on the same plate as dinner.
Remember this classic sweater? It’s back with a twist.
Films and books about finding beauty in everyday moments. “Of course, most films and books are interested in ordinary moments…but the films I share below luxuriate in the small things with more ceremony… they’re celebrated with a quiet, tender warmth that seems to say, this matters.”
Curious: Have you ever tried an all-in-one hair tool? My beauty friends swear by them.
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library mails a free book every month to any enrolled child, from birth through age five: “At the time of her death, the Imagination Library had expanded to mail 270 million books to children in five countries.” In lieu of flowers, her family is asking people to consider donating. xoxo
Plus, two reader comments:
Says Mel on four fun things: “I’m in the squishy phase of summer where I just want flowy dresses and oversized tees. A few years ago, I started buying all my shorts one size up and gosh darnit if that wasn’t one of the best choices ever.”
Says Katie on an ode to middle school: “My friend and I once skipped a day of school to go skiing. We were eating lunch in the lodge when, lo and behold, who did we see but our three science teachers, who had clearly skipped school as well! We all made eye contact, they nodded and kept it moving. None of us said anything the next day in class. I still laugh about that.”
(Photo by Alvara Lavin/Stocksy.)
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