If Lost Start Here is a guide for the anxious, curious, lonely and lost. Featuring everyday places and at-home prompts designed to help you live a life that feels good.
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With sounds bouncing off the rocks in every direction, the venue, and surrounding 700 acres, offer an immersive and awe-inspiring setting for your favorite musical acts. On our trip, we photographed deer and birds (and one random feral cat) as we awaited entry to Phoebe Bridgers show. For lovers of nature and music, there simply could not be a more beautiful place to lose yourself. (Spoiler alert: I cried twice.)
A space dedicated to bringing fiction into the world, that supports our real lives as it does so.
A community classroom space in Rochester teaching what really matters in life.
San Francisco’s Black Bird Books sits on the edge of the world while being resolutely of its place.
A movement born on social media changing the narratives that make up our neighborhoods.
Is sitting in a ball pit allowed anymore? Why The Color Factory is making the argument that it is.
Between the setting and the breathtaking view, it’s difficult to leave here without a newfound sense of awe and wonder - a feeling we could all use, at the moment.
In Nashville author Ann Patchett gives bookstores the happy ending that they deserve.
As humans we’re obsessed by time, with running through our days while also being in the moment. We’re a little confused about it. To get a more balanced, holistic view head to San Francisco’s The Interval.
Maria Popova, a similar collector of interesting (in ideas rather than things) encourages: “Be curious. Be constantly, consistently, indiscriminately curious.” We had that quote in mind talking to Lea and wandering through Lucky Penny Parlor.
Moab is a place to discover yourself in the present, but with a deep sense of being cradled by the past. A place to feel beloved on the earth.
The great irony of Marfa is that it isn’t really trying to be anything other than what it is: a tiny, dusty Texas town. The city of Marfa website pitches it as “more than just a place. . . . It’s a state of mind,” but my mom and I agreed that that gives the wrong idea.
City Lights Bookstore is a literary landmark and a magical meeting place for intellectual inquiry.
Most city gardens are well manicured and pretty to visit, but Descanso maintains a unique kind of messiness that instantly transports you into a magical world of plants, trees, and flowers.
Waking up in Joshua Tree was waking up in another world. Had I even seen the sun rise before? Had the light ever touched anything with such intention?? It hit me fairly quickly what people find appealing about this place. In the light of day, the landscape feels less like a barren wasteland and more like a waiting canvas, a palpable feeling of possibility filling the limitless space.
It’s when Susan Orlean writes of the multipurpose function of libraries now to be the spaces that can reflect our public imagination that we feel like signing up to be a librarian right now.
