When it's raining, listen to the rain. When it's snowing, look at the snow. Savor the heat in summer and the biting cold in winter. \ — The Wisdom of Tea, N...
Why a “Reading Retreat” Is the Girls’ Trip Idea You Need to Try This Year via Modern Mrs Darcy I think I need something like this. A reading retreat is exactly what it sounds like: a vacation designed for book lovers looking for chill vibes, relaxation, and blissfully uninterrupted reading time. Rather than filling your days with sightseeing or activities, you retreat to a cozy, peaceful spot…
Main Page + Calendar Day 12: Natal Design Quite intrigued by the drawer pouch that looks thicker than the usual. Day 13: Yumi Kitagishi Day 14: Tanaka Daisuke These ornaments are called “snow bijou.” They’re hand-stitched using 318 beads of nine types, including glass beads, metal beads, round beads, and cylindrical bugle beads, as well as rhinestones and sequins. Not my style, but wow. Bet the…
Perfect summer read with the coastal setting. Was in a New England summer kind of mood the entire time I was reading it (though I was mainly just working). Source On the Characters So happy to have so many great characters to love - Dolly herself, her family, Naomi, Busy and Victoria. Enjoyed reading about Dolly and her go-getter attitude because I'm the entire opposite. Single mum, responsible…
Main Page + Calendar Day 4: Hobonichi Store Exclusive Bonus: Plain Old Acorn Charm Totally up my alley, even though I don't think there has been a Hobonichi Exclusive that I ended up using (besides the pens). This year's colour way isn't that bad; save for the fact that I'm still using the last of my 2021 pens!! Also lowkey hoping that they would switch to the Uniball One (does that even have a…
Main Page + Calendar Hobonichi preview season seems to have crept up on me. Not feeling it yet, but it's also still early!? Keen to see: Day 4: Hobonichi Store Exclusive Acorn keychain Days 6 to 24: New Covers Day 25: Full Line-up Day 27: A look at the classic Weeks series (what is this??) Day 29: New Drawer Pouches Day 30: New Stationery Day 31: Creating the Hobonichi Techo Factory Video-Tour Day…
On Cheating Still not sure what I think about cheating but it sure happens a lot. And I guess we get a look at how it happens through Clare's POV. But totally wild when your affair partner winds up dead and you end up being one of the major suspects AND have to solve the mystery. On the Characters Don't think I will like being on the wrong side of Dorothy (like Clare was) but she's fascinating.…
u/WearingCoats on product shelf life and longevity A large portion of product formulation involves testing a formula against its packaging. This part of the process can actually take months or weeks, and is just as much as part of the chemistry as picking and combining ingredients. This is because formulas can and DO interact with the chemical structure of the packaging they are put into. This…
The Guardian view on Chinese workers picking up the pen: poetry in motion The hundreds of millions who have built modern China from the ground up – sweeping its streets, labouring in its factories and ferrying its goods – are often overlooked. But they refuse to go unheard. The individual scrabble to get by has replaced paeans to collective toil, and the sense of hope has given way to numbness or…
And now he knew why. Because to say anything real was to say things that nobody wanted to know. Or if they wanted to know, they would not care in the right way. Or even understand. It was a private thing, to be alive. He understood this now. In his study of history, he had learned about the leaders, and the various groups involved, but he had somehow missed this fact about every single person:…
THE END OF READING IS HERE Reading has never been natural. Humans have no innate cognitive machinery designed to string letters into words and connect them to their real-world analogues. To read, people had to repurpose regions of their brain used for speech and object recognition. The practice first emerged 6,000 years ago in Mesopotamia. For millennia afterward, most of the population was…