Sunday Brunch Round-up | July 4-10th
READ
A Washington Post opinion piece perfectly summed up how I’ve been feeling. I’ve said it before, but having another person put into words how you’re feeling is so affirming. Everyone is tired. We need to give ourselves an actual break. points a light on the deep fatigue that’s been a heavy weight sitting on my chest more days than not over the last year. This one is a must read.
“In the past year, there has been a tendency to blame our tiredness on the drudgery of living through a pandemic — the persistent fear, the loneliness, the grief and the locked-down days that bleed one into another. But none of these feelings are really new; as we’ve moved through the pandemic naming and classifying the different symptoms of an actual disease, we’ve simply stumbled upon words to identify the other things we feel.
So instead of snapping back to normal once we’ve had our shots, we should take our newly recognized existential tiredness as an indication that it’s time to change course — to realize that we need to give ourselves an actual break.”
“One shift might be to take advantage of what we’ve learned from the past year, and intentionally turn our energy back to things that matter. If the pandemic has awakened us to the fact that our friends and loved ones give meaning to our lives, we ought to consider expending our productive impulses on them, rather than the office “family” that is not, in fact, a family at all — and shouldn’t be privileged as such.”
Would you be surprised if I told you that renting clothes is worse for the environment than purchasing and throwing clothes away? Well, that’s what a team of Finnish researchers discovered and published in the Environmental Research Letters journal. Read an excerpt below and the full overview of the article in, Renting clothing is worse for the planet than just throwing it away, study shows, from Fast Company.
“…they calculate the greenhouse gas emissions connected to five different ways of owning and disposing of clothing, including resale, recycling, and renting. Their findings were disturbing. Renting clothes had the highest climate impact of all—even higher than just throwing them away. And recycling also had a high climate impact, because industrial recycling processes generate a lot of emissions.
Ultimately, the researchers determined that the most sustainable way to consume fashion is to buy fewer items and wear them as long as possible. If there’s more life in the clothes, you should resell them. But ultimately, the new business models like recycling and renting, which are frequently touted as eco-friendly, actually aren’t as sustainable as we’re led to think.”
WATCH
I don’t watch a lot of documentaries, but this past week my boyfriend and I stumbled across on about art forgery while we were looking for something to watch while we ate dinner. Made You Look on Netflix tells a captivating story about an art forger, the art dealer that commissioned the known forgeries, and a museum. If you love art or just a juicy story, you’ll enjoy this documentary.
Are you looking for a way to incorporate more low impact cardio into your week? Then, I think you’ll love Grow with Jo on Youtube. She has a variety of walking videos, including one that’s a fun morning wake up that I did just this past week. At the very least, it’ll give you a caffeine-free boost!
TASTE
I’m currently trying to decide what fresh fruit I want to pull out of my fridge for dessert. Summer fruit is elite and this week I wrote an article on how purchasing local, in season produce impacts the environment. After you give it a read, treat yourself to a bowl of fresh strawberries with a bit of whipped cream. Mmm.
in warmth,
