This Bud's For You (And You, And You)

Flowers bring a sense of control when you really need it.

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The Tell by Amy Griffin, a memoir by the G9 cofounder and daily runner who always felt like there was something (a secret memory, one she couldn’t totally place) that she was trying to outpace. Then, at her husband’s urging, she tried MDMA therapy and within minutes, she remembered. While I don’t want to spoil this book for you, I definitely want to let you know that it involves flashbacks to sexual violence, and for me, it was a heavy story about perfectionism (and being a “perfect victim”) and how our brains try to protect us from pain. But is it really protection if it’s keeping us from healing?

ATE

At Le Chêne, an achingly stylish French restaurant in the West Village that serves a surf and turf pithivier (a stuffed puff pastry filled with potatoes, pork, and eel) that in any other context would be Instagram bait, but in this case is the chicest thing you can order right now in New York City. It’s sliced up like a pie and must be ordered with French fries (my rule, not theirs).

ARRANGED

Multiple bouquets courtesy of The Bouqs, who I recently learned will send you an entire bucket of buds (I got roses, carnations, snap dragons, among other draping greens) that you can DIY into all kinds of arrangements. I brought half to a gossip party. Another bunch to friends hosting us for dinner. And I still had enough left over for three full arrangements at home. It’s like taking a trip to the flower market, except you didn’t. And in a time where everything feels out of control, it felt nice to be at the helm of something—even if it was just which flower went where.

WROTE

Our living room, where the John Sohn pillow is always there to lend a hand on the white bouclé. Photo by Belle Morizio

Then again, why didn’t we go with this color combo?

About my completely modular Cozey sofa for Domino, then I went to the Cozey pop-up in Flatiron to see my exact style (the Atmosphere) in a color blocked arrangement that had me rethinking our white bouclé. I really do love this sofa—so much that we just got the long ottoman to add on to it. If they offered a baby blue fabric (like this), I’d switch to those covers in a heartbeat.

TOOK

A bath with these new-to-me soaks called Flewd (don’t ask me to pronounce it), which are essentially packets of bath salts—if bath salts could alter your entire personality and make you a better person. You just cut open the packet and dump the entire thing in the tub. I like Ache Erasing after a run, but Fatigue Defeating is their newest one, and I can confirm that after 20 mins of simmering myself in a hot bath of Flewd, I felt more awake and alive. I also smelled incredible.

Take a bath, and I’ll see you next week!

xx Julie