Your Guide to Delight

What is delighting you these days?

Delight is such a powerful compass point for your intuition. 

With all the messages we get from society and culture and family, we can lose track of what really lights us up. And when we lose track of what lights us up, we lose a powerful connection point to our essential self. 

What is delight?

The enchantment that dances through our senses, awakening our childlike wonder and reminding us to embrace the beauty and joy that surround us. A gentle invitation to savor the simple pleasures of life and find joy in the extraordinary found within the ordinary. A purely delicious experience that is uniquely calibrated for what aligns with your deepest self. 

Here’s a list to get your delighted creative juices flowing: 

1. Dance around to The Oogum Boogum Song

2. Take a walk outside and leave your phone at home

3. Snuggle (a kid, partner, dear friend, fluffy companion) without distractions 

4. Read a romance novel

5. Have a bowl of ice cream with sprinkles – in the middle of the afternoon

6. Work in the garden, with bare hands

7. Bake focaccia and eat it fresh from the oven

8. Put on something sparkly and meet a friend at a hotel bar 

9. Take a bath with epsom salts and essential oils (lavender for calming, ylang ylang for a romantic atmosphere, eucalyptus for aching muscles) 

10. Treat yourself to new markers and graph paper for doodling

11. Take a Wonder Walk

12. Watch an episode of Stanley Tucci’s Searching for Italy

13. Write a love letter to your best friend

14. Write a love letter to yourself

15. Put on under eye patches, light some incense, turn on some Krishna Das, and lay on your floor with your eyes closed for 20 minutes

16. Slather your feet in Mom’s Stuff salve and put on fuzzy socks

17. Whip up the perfect mocktail and sip it outside while watching the sunset

18. Drink a latte out of a real mug while you listen to Dave Brubeck’s Take Five and do a crossword 

19. Blow bubbles

20. Take a bike ride

21. Do a puzzle while listening to a podcast

22. Go to the Phillips Collection and take a few deep breaths in the Laib Wax Room

23. Read this poem

24. Listen to Gwendolyn Brooks read We Real Cool

25. Walk into a room of loved ones with underwear on your head 

26. Build a fairy land 

27. Knit a funny tea cozy 

28. Paint your linen closet neon orange

29. Eat by candlelight 

30. Make pickled onions and put them on everything

You may read this list and be turned off by every one of these ideas. That is wonderful! That, my dear, is your intuition talking. Take note of this valuable information.

This week, I’m giving you the yummiest homework assignment: 

Find delight. Delight in things.

At least once a day, do something purely for the delight of it – and let me know how it goes. 

DM me on Instagram. Or, if it feels delightful to do so, post yours and tag me. I’d love to see. 

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