Dear Reader,
Let’s talk about the horrible hologram. You know the one that starts up the second your brain comes online in the morning. The one that starts to scroll up like a bad sci-fi movie opener before your eyes have even fully opened.
Why talk about it? Why remind you of something so horrible as that damn hologram?
Because, One, I have the horrible hologram too. And it’s nice to be seen and understood. You’re not the only one trying to chase the damn thing away every morning. Like you, I try to ignore the hologram by scrolling on social media. Maybe, I even try to chase it away by answering a few quick emails. Just respond to a few items before I really start my day. Send off a few responses to things I was worried about all night that followed me into my sleep. Now, of course it never is just a few emails or a quick scroll. But there’s something very real about trying to chase away the hologram.
Second, I bring up that imaginary scrolling to-do list because I want you to stop and acknowledge its presence for a moment and consider whether you made it anywhere on your own list. Not in a “rah rah girl power, self care gurllll…” kind of way. But because in all of our doing and productivity, we get squeezed off the list. Or we were never on the list to begin with. I’m not even asking you to change that right now. Just acknowledge the list and ask whether you are anywhere to be found? If not, why not and do you like your reasons considering the season that you’re currently in?
Last, I bring up the horrible hologram because you may want to make the hologram at least a bit more bearable or tolerable. And rather than take a bunch of items off the list, can we add one that is a bit more appealing? Something you actually would LOOOOOVVVEEE to do? Again, keep everything on your damn list. It’s your list. But what about adding a lil’ somethin’?
Since we’re in the middle of the Brainy & Bougie Scavenger Hunt at Maison Gaton, here are the next three things on the list worth considering adding to your own list. So maybe, just maybe, the hologram to-do list isn’t so horrible?
Visit your local library. My personal favorite thing to check out are giant art books. The big coffee table ones that are rather expensive and really are just for perusing. I kept the ones on Berthe Morisot the longest.
Full meal alone at a restaurant. No phone. And if that horrifies you, put a good book on your phone and bring that along. Just try to stay out of your emails and off your socials during the course of the meal.
Go to the best local ice cream or dessert place. I recently ate salted caramel ice cream at a new-to-me local spot with my sisters. I will definitely make a trip back.
Let me know if you enjoy any of these this week and comment below!
Drooling over these, but haven’t pushed them into my cart yet.
Cue the 80’s montage. Love this song!
Learning to carve a chicken with Ina.
Loving this art book.
This week on the podcast we're talking about the horrible hologram, that scrolling to-do list that starts up before your eyes are fully open in the morning. I have one too. And rather than trying to fix it or overhaul it entirely, I'm asking one simple question: are you anywhere on that list? Come sit down.
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Some past episodes that fit in with being a bit brainy & bougie.
You already have the list. The one that starts before your eyes are fully open. The one that belongs to everyone else.
The Brainy & Bougie Scavenger Hunt is the one thing on the list that belongs entirely to you.
Paid subscribers received a scavenger hunt card in the mail — a curated list of activities designed to help you become a tourist in your own life. No expensive getaway. No time-expensive escape. Just an afternoon and a little intentional wandering in your own town.
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