Stop Ignoring All the Mundane Miracles in Your Life - The New York Times

Turn your monotonous moments into monuments by taking notes of what you observe. It only takes 15 minutes a day. By Anna Kodé After a long day at work, I absent-mindedly boarded an express train. What should’ve been an 18-minute commute home turned into a 50-minute journey from Manhattan to Brooklyn and back. Sitting on that last train to my apartment, I felt a digital dreariness overcome me. I’d spent all day responding to emails, Slacks and DMs. I just wanted to not look at a screen. I didn’t have a book with me, so I took out my notebook and jotted down everything I saw, heard or smelled: A backpack occupying a seat for a human. A woman wearing a spiky hat. Shoelaces, untied. Shoelaces, tied. An aggressively yellow ad for something called Mullvad. “Do Not Lean on Door.” Snoring. The person next to me typing out in a text, “Dinner next week?” before quickly deleting it and locking his phone. “I don’t have any Seine River like Monet, I’ve just got U.S. 66 between Oklahoma and Los Ange

Turn your monotonous moments into monuments by taking notes of what you observe. It only takes 15 minutes a day. By Anna Kodé After a long day at work, I absent-mindedly boarded an express train. What should’ve been an 18-minute commute home turned into a 50-minute journey from Manhattan to Brooklyn and back. Sitting on that last train to my apartment, I felt a digital dreariness overcome me. I’d spent all day responding to emails, Slacks and DMs. I just wanted to not look at a screen. I didn’t have a book with me, so I took out my notebook and jotted down everything I saw, heard or smelled: A