finding pervasive rosiness | morning coffee crumbs #1
I feel a rare rush of energy and excitement on a Monday morning, as I click the send button on this newsletter.
Welcome to this new weekly short column of sorts, morning coffee crumbs, where I give you all something to perhaps think about during your monday morning coffee, transit to work, or your little moment of procrastination before you get sucked into the work cycle for the day and the rest of the week.
I invite you to see this column as a way to have a few things to meditate over today, or as a theme for the rest of the week.
I came across this line in a book I’m currently reading, and immediately underlined it.Â
The rosiness the author is referring to here, is the music, the fragrance, and the community that her life was submerged within. The chrysanthemums and the marigolds, the songs she would hear on the radio, the meals cooked by her aunts and cousins in the home shared by her joint family, the conversations and the moments with her family and friends.
It’s the little things that make the average day just exist at a higher baseline. Freshly cut, fragrant flowers in your living room. A clean space. A follow through on an intention to say and receive an I love you from family, friends, or partners. Your On Repeat playlist that rings through your headphones. A nice, hot shower. Lighting a candle when the sunset is over.
The more we create this sense of rosiness, the easier romanticizing our lives becomes, and the stronger we become to fight the inevitable, seasonal storms that hit us.
To illustrate the power of cultivating this energy, here is an intuitive thought experiment. Imagine you’re having a shitty day:
in a dark, messy room with no natural light, with a chair in a corner overflowing with clothes you haven’t folded in a week
in a room with your blinds open, light coming in, and the air flowing in and out
You might continue having a shitty day regardless, but there is one of two situations here that is more likely to get you out of a rut - even if briefly so.
It’s the idea of bringing in that rosiness into your everyday - a little light, a little air, a little flow. In ways you may not even realize are so critical to energy shifts.
Designing our lives within a pervasively rosy vacuum keeps the good days feeling good, if not better.
It also allows us to recover faster when we fall down, to cope in healthier ways than we would have otherwise, and to minimize the pain we are hit with when the bad comes along. If we’re doing the work today, we can be the best support system for ourselves when we need ourselves to be the most.
Pervasive rosiness doesn’t imply radical optimism; it just asks you to be thoughtful and intentional with your wants, feelings, emotions, and little things that tug at your heartstrings a little more so.
I invite you to meditate over these things to yourself, or in the comments below.
What does a perfectly rosy everyday life look like to you?
What are some things you already do that allow your life to feel rosy?
What are some other things you can do to curate that sense of rosiness in your current everyday life?
What are some ways you can commit to designing and creating that pervasive rosiness today or this week?
life is truly better when you romanticize the little things :) ✨
Completely agree! I think there is a subconscious benefit to adjusting our spaces in small ways, weather that's by having more light in our space or changing the sounds we're surrounded by - sometimes relaxing instrumentals, comfort songs, or even purposeful silence can makes us feel more in control of what's happening in our day to day whether good or bad.