LEISURE LETTER Nº24
Editor of D&D’s Sunday Paper
MYSTICAL STUFF FOR A MAGICAL SUNDAY.
WEAR: this nightie, which inspired the whole theme, tbh. Black ink. V delicate. A wearable bedtime story. It’s technically inspired by a book of poems but—off-label—doesn’t it remind you (and I mean this in the best possible way cc: design team) of the sort of cute summer thing you’d impulse buy in a cute hippie shop in one of those cute holiday towns that always, as an actual law probably, also have a lolly shop? The sort of shop that sells mystical trinkets and essential oils and things that are tie-dyed? (Dream catchers! Punny products! Papyrus font!)
GARNISH: with a mood ring, naturally. They were such a thing in the 90s, no?! I bought mine (at age 7?) from a shop exactly like the one described above, and for months (years?) deferred to it completely in order to gauge how I was feeling, until one day it just went black—which, at the time, I fully just accepted as an indication of something deeply sinister to come (in whatever capacity something could be sinister for an eight year old), but turns was just a manufacturing quirk. You’re not meant to get them wet. They still make the best mood rings for kids, which is nice for Gen-whatever-it-technically-is, but are slightly trickier to find for adults (though here’s a good one!).
SNIFF: notes of pencil shavings, incense and rose! Via candle or diffuser, dealer’s choice.
SPRITZ: Have you heard of personal aura spray? A REAL THING, would you believe it? Kind of like pepper spray, but for people with tarot cards and without imminent threat. I discovered it via a friend who constantly tried to drag me to experimental yoga classes / interpretive dance rituals / cacao ceremonies, and who I once caught bathing her crystals by the light of the full moon to, like, charge them, or something. Anyway—the spray. She’d carry it on her person, just as you would pepper spray, and whenever anyone grumbled at her she’d just sort of stop and—automatically, wordlessly, mid-conversation, eyes-glazed—violently mist them with it. I can’t confirm that it actually works like a room spray for bad energy, but it is a creative way of letting someone know that their story is lacking.
SIP: some sort of magical goop-ish tonic (tea? kombucha?) from this hypnotic creamer set.
RELAX UPON: this cushion! We love drama! We love velvet! We love themes.
SEND: a glittery card to someone, just because.
EAT: unrelated to all of the above, but omg, this!
Happy (CELESTIAL!) Sunday!
SUNDAY UNIFORM SUGGESTIONS
