Unclench with me for a moment: Sunday cozies & recent bookmarks unpacked.

In the spirit of unclenching and doing less, I wanted to spend Sunday together indulging in the kinds of frivolity best enjoyed with a coffee or tea in hand.

I’ve written before (at length, really) about the teeter totter of my ambition— great, big, sweeping, wealth generating ambition— and my conflicting desire to have a simple, beautiful life with the people I love, writing, living slowly, and cultivating a community where we all care for each other… and maybe I have some sheep in the yard.

These days, the teeter totter has been oscillating more rapidly as I consider my career options and what full time roll to dive into this year— could I possibly have both?

I don’t know. But since returning home from my UK trip, I’ve been quite comfortable embracing the latter and doing less. I have some baking projects that excite me, have scaled down to a max of 2-3 networking calls a day, I’m still committed to my daily journaling and exercise— but I’d describe the vibe as unclenched. I’m very good at assigning myself so much self improvement that it could be a full time job, and the greatest self improvement of all has been cutting that habit out!

I…