grief in a book store, youtubers, & your new notion template

a cozy combo

Grief in a bookstore ~

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Walls of literature seem to elicit the idea that they hold answers I don’t.

Perhaps I frequently roam bookstores in moments of grief to dissipate my knowledge in leu of other’s mental libraries.

The libraries of others -through their crafted words- help alleviate the need to go into my own. I’m in my internal library all damn day. I enjoy the breaks to tell you, truthfully.

To a certain degree, I romanticize the bookends of somewhere else. An inner begging to close something inside me so I don’t have to do that alone.

I publish novels that no one reads, but oh can they feel.

Emotional memoirs have been my specialty for the past two years. They hold tales of sorrow, loss, spaciousness, delicious friendship, and inner spirals with tea.

I keep forgetting that wisdom is not published. It’s felt.

Wisdom keepers are the oral transmitters.

Knowledge seekers are book buyers and sellers.

A grave mistake I keep making is confusing knowledge for wisdom.

That is a death that is not worth a rebirth, trust me.

You and I continue this game of looking and looking- this is the mouse trap of comprehension. To be penetrated by wisdom is to make love to the unknown.

Knowledge is simply knowing.

Isn’t it funny that we seek wisdom through knowing? That can’t possibly be so.

To become a mistress of wisdom is to blindly step into these life’s changes and re-arranges without a clue of how to declare their predictions.

So here I am, roaming the bookstore again like a lost puppy ready to be adopted by someone else’s philosophy.

The process is grim.

On one end I feel like the feral dog who wants nothing more than to roam without a home, and on the other, I beg for the lucky couple to take me home so I don’t have to rely on my GPS anymore.

What book is freeing me from today’s adoption event?

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Youtubers ~

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Youtube is so much more to me than a visual manual for putting air in my tires (although, we do not give enough credit to the random humans who care to produce this type of content).

It has become a vision board through videography.

It’s a friend I need when I’m in the mood for updates on Copenhagen living.

It’s my breathing Pinterest that shares someone’s experiences in motion rather than in still snapshots that disappear 24 hours later.

This platform is like my secret clubhouse. The one I’ve always wanted to steep in as a teenager but now I get to as a chic 30-year-old.

Something mystical is happening with my love affair with YouTube - they keep sending me YouTubers who have less than 300 subscribers and I’m frankly infatuated.

I’m still recovering from analytical propaganda when it comes to social media numbers ~ specifically the amount of followers someone “has.” As a side note, we don’t have them. We don’t own followers or a following like it’s a handbag. I’m quite depleted of this concept when it comes to our significance (!).

To be refreshed with an algorithm that dares to do the opposite - i.e. sending me those who are on their beginner’s journey with putting themselves out there- is so riveting.

It’s nice, isn’t it? To feel human touch through a screen instead of their numbers?

To want to press play because of the message and not the view count is an audacity to what we’ve been trained.

Yes, it’s a subconscious training, the more is more game.

I’ve been sharing my love of the YouTuber over on Instagram and in my membership. The amount of requests to share my personal favorites has been overwhelming, so it’s with tender pleasure that I offer you my personally curated list.

The Youtuber List ☉

• Moya Mawhinney (the creme de la creme of vlogs)

• COULOU (for saxophone meditations)

• Iris Wellen (life inspiration)

• Lynette Adkins (the wisdom keeper)

• Mina Le (rabbit hole pleasures)

• Tar Mar (your online friend)

• Claire Marshall (quiet moments)

• Juan Marcel & Rhylan (couple things)

• Birta Hlin (my Copenhagen girlie)

• Lou (slow living)

• Vic Lauren (travel guides)

• Lucile (the true Parisian)

• Gaz Oakley (be prepared for love?)

• French Vibes (the name speaks for itself)

• Samxren (the embodiment of Studio Ghibli)

• Carys Degenhardt (just fabulous)

• Paige Wassel (my interior design fetish)

• Jenn Im (I want to be in her inner circle)

• Eric Wang (more interior design fetish)

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  Your new notion template that becomes your digital home office ~

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  THE RESET ROADMAP 💘💘

It’s the start of the morning and you’re once again (le sigh), scrolling through phone notes, Google Docs, or journals to get it all together. That one password seems to have finally liberated itself from your perceived notion of organization.

You’re ready to have it all in one place (and yes, I mean it all, truly). A business financial cloud, your trip planner for that ideal spot you’ve been dreaming of, and various pages all in one exhale of a homepage.

The RESET ROADMAP has been my tried-and-true digital nook for the past year, and now it’s yours.

We are collectively being asked for a total reset. Don’t let the alluring idea of a “new year” in January create a distance from you beginning again.

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