You Don’t Decide a Year. You Edit It.
Most people talk about deciding a year. As if January arrives with a blank page and all it takes is intention. But years aren’t decided.They’re edited. A good year isn’t built by adding more goals, more habits, more plans, more noise. It’s shaped by subtraction. By knowing what doesn’t belong. By removing what dilutes your attention, your energy, your time. Editing a year means asking harder questions than what do I want to do? It asks: what am I willing to stop? What routin
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So I Run Like the Wild Horses
There are phases in life where stillness feels like self betrayal. Where staying put, over explaining, or waiting for the right moment feels heavier than the risk of moving. This is one of those phases. As 2026 begins, the year of the horse (yayyy!!), it feels impossible not to notice how much this moment is asking for motion. Not frantic change, not reinvention for the sake of spectacle, but a return to instinct. Forward movement led by something internal, not external valid
Jan 122 min read
Let’s Go Back to Analog
Somewhere between the endless scrolling and the blue-light headaches, we forgot how good life feels when it’s lived in real time. We traded novels for notifications, conversations for reactions, and the softness of a moment for the sharpness of a screen. And suddenly, the days blur together not because they are full, but because they are the same. Maybe that’s why we’re all craving the analog world again. Film cameras, notebooks, paperbacks, real sweaters that feel like somet
Dec 17, 20252 min read
Chai Circle: Natalia Graf
For our next Chai Circle muse, we shift into a different kind of frequency; one carried by rhythm and intuition. Meet Natalia Graf : a cycling coach and a woman whose presence feels synced to both music and the sea. She has that unmistakable Stevie Nicks spirit; the kind of energy that feels free, grounded, and magnetic. There’s something singular about the way she moves through the world: the calm of waves, the pulse of a bassline, the warmth of a 70s sun drenched afternoon
Dec 14, 20254 min read
Cloud Dancer:The Color of 2026
Pantone could’ve gone loud this year. They didn’t. Instead, they chose Cloud Dancer: an off white so restrained it almost reads as a provocation. A conservative choice, some would say. But maybe conservative is exactly what we’ve been craving. Cloud Dancer isn’t about shock value; it’s about clarity. It’s the color of a reset: the blank space designers worship, the fresh sheet you sleep in after a long week, the clean breath before making a decision that finally feels aligne
Dec 11, 20251 min read
The Logic of Aesthetics
Lately I’ve fallen into a quiet obsession with neuroaesthetics ; a field that finally puts scientific language to something I’ve always felt intuitively: that beauty doesn’t just look good, it does something to us. In simple terms, neuroaesthetics studies how the brain responds to art, design, and beauty . Not philosophically. Not metaphorically. Literally: blood flow, neural pathways, emotional regulation, decision making, reward circuits. It’s the bridge between what we see
Nov 25, 20252 min read
The Lazy Chai Gift Guide: 2025
If you’re the type who plans your gifts early (or at least wants to), welcome you’re among friends. This year’s Lazy Chai Gift Guide is thoughtful, warm, and beautifully edited. A collection of meaningful pieces, soft textures, understated sparkle and everything that makes gifting feel intentional rather than overwhelming.
Nov 19, 20251 min read
