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Image via, featuring Donni striped poplin pants. It’s the summer of the statement trouser!

+ANOTHER WAY OF THINKING ABOUT YOUR TBR PILE: Does anyone else feel slight guilt or agita over the number of books there are waiting to be read? I loved this gentler look at my TBR pile —

+ENJOYING “THE DOING” OF LIFE: I feel like I might have shared this quote from David Lynch (American painter turned filmmaker and actor) already, but it’s been leaping out at me lately:

“I’m just, you know, kind of happy in the doing of things. Even just having a great cup of coffee is happiness. Getting an idea, or realizing an idea. Working on a painting…working on a piece of sculpture, working on a film. One thing I noticed is that many of us, we do what we call work for a goal. For a result. And in the doing, it’s not that much happiness. And yet that’s our life going by. If you’re transcending every day, building up that happiness, it eventually comes to: it doesn’t matter what your work is. You just get happy in the work. You get happy in the little things and the big things. And if the result isn’t what you dreamed of, it doesn’t kill you, if you enjoyed the doing of it. It’s important that we enjoy the doing of our life.”

+BEST MAKEUP MELTING BALM PROMO: My favorite nightly wind-down ritual: melting the day off with this cleansing balm (obsessed with the rose scent). Currently, you can get a travel trio gift-with-purchase (<<details here) if you use the code CLEANSE. Great time to stock up on the balm (my favorite is rose) and also take care of skincare while traveling this summer!

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+MORE OF THIS PLEASE: On senior night, every graduating varsity baseball player from this high school has one final at-bat with a pitch thrown by his father, and his mother waits to hug him at home plate. This is the kind of beautiful, open-heart practice that interrupts toxic masculinity in the best way. I feel this acutely already with my son — sometimes he brings home language and an adopted “affect” he’s absorbed from his peers. Landon has always been very intentional about hugging and kissing him (not just giving him a fist bump or a side hug), and also telling him it’s OK and normal to cry. We talk a lot about this at home. I love the way this school is giving these teenage boys space to be emotional about a huge life transition.

Meanwhile, sideline siblings — LOL.

+EYEING + BUYING: Some fun finds for this week…