The Matchbook | 7.15.22

Little Bits Of Light

Here’s some stuff ya hooligans. I hope you dig them. Also, I had a few people request the daily typewriter series goofy ass videos from each week, so I’ll try this out by pasting them at the bottom, for all you who are off the social medias. Let me know if you dig them being at the end of these each week?

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Here’s the scoop, kids:

1. Lost Art of Miniature Golf Courses - I call it Putt Putt, have since I was a wee one in North Carolina, but whatever you call it, there’s something so damn beautiful and nostalgic about miniature golf. This little article and the photos within it ached me in a good way.

   

2. 7 Proven Ways To Break Your Cell Phone Addiction - Let’s be honest, and just admit the facts: We’re all on our phones way, way, too much. We all want to be on them less. Did you know the average person touches their phone over 2,600 times per day? WHAT?! Here’s some tips to help.

3. World’s Greatest Places 2022 - Time Magazine has picked their greatest places of 2022, and oof, there are some doozies that I am desperate to get to. So happy to see one of my most favorite places on earth, Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland, on the list. Well done you lot.

   

4. Lean Into Idleness - We’re all too busy, a fact that we hate admitting but it’s true anyway. This article, this beautiful little article, is about leaning into idleness and becoming more comfortable doing a whole lot of nothing. How have we lost that art?

5. Grace O’Malley the Pirate Queen of Ireland - One of Sarah and I’s favorite historical figures, and someone we pay homage to every time we’re in Ireland, this is a great little primer on one of the raddest, and least known heroines in all history.

6. Stop Trying to “Earn” Food - Rad little piece on how nonsensical it is to try to “burn off” the foods we’re eating with exercise. This has the science behind the calories we all burn just being alive, and how we shouldn’t be so damn worried about “earning” foods or burning them off the moment we eat them. Just be.

7. Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) Stranger Things Remix - Journey mixed with Stranger Things for all the spooky nostalgic feels. Why not?

8. Typewriter Series Videos Of The Week:

   

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