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I love the reading list! Can confirm that ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ is honestly one of the best things I’ve read. I’d read Ocean Vuong’s grocery lists

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have you seen his collabs with peter do / helmut lang? I’m reduced to TEARS

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I haven’t! I’m so glad you mentioned these. Will be picking them up immediately

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Aug 14Liked by tina zhang

Good post! When I want to take slow in nyc, I always take a walk near tudor city <333 such a quiet & beautiful neighborhood.

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I loooove little pockets of quiet neighborhoods in nyc

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Aug 11Liked by tina zhang

This is so so so well written!

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💘🫶

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I loved this!! I am always caught up in the idea of slow living but if you are not set up in a way that allows for that then you just drive yourself mad!! Just slowing down occasionally can be enough

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I seriously feel like I operate on autopilot 95% of the day but it’s so hard to break the pattern

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i love this a lot

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wait hi I love ur writing !!!

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HI thank you omg :') i love yours!!!

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Aug 9Liked by tina zhang

the only blog i read religiously. obsessed, tina!

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I’m incredibly touched 🥹🫶 thank you so so much

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I felt the exact same way returning from a 4-day trip to Stockholm, wasn’t even gone for long but coming back to New York felt incredibly overwhelming. It felt like a proper escape to not understand all of the conversations happening around me.

I also switched to reading instead of doom scrolling - just seemed like a simpler change I could make easily at no cost.

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I’m so glad you feel the same!

Are you reading anything you’d recommend? I feel like my reading is pretty on and off depending on how much I like my current book lol

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I struggle with book recs because I feel like the preferences are so personal, so take these with a grain of salt! Just finished Ask Me Again by Claire Sestanovich and The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai.

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recently, i was made redundant and have had the idyllic "slow" few months. mornings in the sun; 11am friend rendezvous at a park; being homely and house-proud. it didnt all come at once though. once i ironed out my stress response to having no income i gradually got comfortable leaning in to having nowhere to be. i think i will be looking back at this period of my life in a much rosier shade than i anticipate.

your post puts nicely how quickly we can transition from one of these states to another without being fully conscious, and how one can cut through the morass of a "fast" lifestyle.

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Oh i love this! Whenever i have errands i always feel like i need to rush to another and another and another and then home, while I'm never actually in a rush. I'm working really hard on taking my time, although I also live in a fast-paced capital city and it's pretty difficult

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The newsletter I was craving for 🫶🏻

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This post made me miss NYC and all its *slow* possibilities.

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The doomscrolling to reading transition is brutal 😭

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Even when being in slow mode, love your substack newsletter including thoughts, recommendations and visuals, slowly digesting it all, now that's the antidote to a fast paced life, well lived...🤓😍📚🔖💯

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