Twelve Things Worth Your Sunday

No essay this week. Instead, a list of small things that have made our Sundays better. Steal freely.

1. Walk a route you have only ever driven. You will discover a street you have passed a hundred times and never seen.
2. Learn the name of one tree on your street. Then you will see it everywhere.
3. Eat lunch at a counter, facing the kitchen. It is the best seat in any restaurant.
4. Visit a museum for twenty minutes. Look at one room only. Leave before you are tired.
5. Write a postcard to someone in your own city.
6. Go to the market at closing time, when the bargains are best and the vendors are chatty.
7. Read the noticeboard at your local library. Every neighbourhood’s secret life is pinned there.
8. Find the oldest building on your block and look up when it was built.
9. Sit in a park without your phone for the length of one song you can hum.
10. Make the excellent sandwich: good bread, salted butter, a tomato at its peak. Nothing else.
11. Take the long way to the bakery.
12. Plan nothing for the evening. Let the city make a suggestion.

Let the city make a suggestion.

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