Warm Weather Hygge
By definition, hygge (hooga) according to the Denmark website is about "taking time away from the daily rush to be together with people you care about - or even by yourself - to relax and enjoy life's quieter pleasures." There's a fun little book I read on vacation back in 2018 called The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living and I loved it so much, I bought one as soon as I got back. There was actually nothing more relaxing than reading that little book curled up on the couch in the sunroom with a cup of tea and is one of my favorite memories of that trip. Many tend to associate this practice in the cooler months of Fall and Winter because it tends to focus on the act of being cozy. Snuggling under a blanket, enjoying a warm, healing cup of tea by the fireplace (or fireplace on TV ), lighting a favorite candle while doing a calming hobby like cross stitch or scrapbooking. Being a hyggephant, I can tell you that I never associated warm wea...
I believe I was 8 or 9 years old out in California at Knott's Berry Farm and enjoying those cars that you "drive" (open, old fashioned-looking cars). I remember being so proud of myself because I was actually driving and I was sitting up tall and proud with a big smile on my face...only to discover that the cars were on a rail, therefore you couldn't have veered off if you tried. To this day I can remember feeling so deflated when I realized the car was on a track, that I sat there slumped in the driver's seat and didn't even keep my hands on the wheel at that point. It ruined my whole day after that.
ReplyDeleteI used to listen to this one DJ as a kid, I was maybe 7 or 8, and I had a small radio that had a speaker that sometimes would go bad at the most inopportune times. One day out of the blue I decided to just take the thing apart and see if I could fix it. I didn't fix it... but I also didn't totally break it. I put it all back together and it still worked, I just didn't know that the speaker needed a new solder and I was too young to realize that yet. But what I did realize was that I was not afraid to jump into anything electronic and see what I could do with it. That serves me well to this day.
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