New York first: Walking across the Manhattan Bridge (at sunset, no less).
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
//via Swiss Miss
![So far this month I have read:
The Devil in the White City [about the Chicago World’s Fair]Things We Love [food for the eyes if you like all things sparkly, dotty and graphic]Turning Pro [Steven Pressfield’s second work of non-fiction ab…](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57bb3d135016e128d2a69a0c/1471896772305-XFMLDK1CAT9BNH3C4ZP6/tumblr_miqqm13klG1ramp6jo1_1280.jpg)
So far this month I have read:
The Devil in the White City [about the Chicago World’s Fair]
Things We Love [food for the eyes if you like all things sparkly, dotty and graphic]
Turning Pro [Steven Pressfield’s second work of non-fiction about getting off your ass and doing what you were meant to do]
How to Sharpen Pencils [hysterically detailed treatise on sharpening pencils]
and I finally started my print subscription to New York Magazine
I’ve been watching some documentaries lately too, so another Watch It list coming soon!
Slowly learning to take a whole day off each week, it’s good for you! I try to have a entire day with no set plans (not even with friends). That doesn’t mean I don’t see my friends, it just means there is nothing on my calendar for a whole day each week. Just put a big X on your calendar for one day of each weekend, and if you are invited to something on that day, politely decline.
To read more about the benefits of taking a day off, check out:
The Sabbath Manifesto
What Happened to Downtime?
Do Less: A Short Guide (actually, just read all of Zen Habits, Leo is brilliant)
After watching First Position (it’s on netflix instant) this evening I just had to dig my old pointe shoes out from under my bed. (I might have worn them for the remainder of the movie.)
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