This Is the Healthyish Way to Do Summer

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Last week was the summer solstice...

...aka the longest day of the year, aka a day when I always feel slightly annoyed. It's not even the end of June, and we've already hit peak sunlight? I just stopped wearing my spring jacket! My summer, so far, has consisted of waiting for the A/C repairman to show up, spending way too much money at Juice Press, and 45 minutes at the beach (before it started raining).

I recognize that this is a very New York mentality to have, to treat summer like a two-month timed obstacle course: "Gotta get to the barbecue! And to the beach! And eat the arepa and drink all the frozen drinks! Gotta book the place upstate, and go to the music festival...wait, there's another barbecue!"

So I'm trying to remind myself to chill out. I've gotten back to meditating after a years-long hiatus. I'm sticking to my a.m. ashwagandha routine. I'm tackling summer haircare for frizzy types. (Got a tip? Help a girl out.)

I'm settling in with my CBD cocktail and a #longread, like Mayukh Sen's search for the woman who changed the way his family cooked. And Hilary Cadigan's profile of the next barbecue king.

Can I also recommend this no-bullshit skincare newsletter from Le Culture Club? And this grain-free granola that is clustery AF? And the web show Home: A Queer Cooking Series?

And if you're like, "Summer is NOT the time for television, I am MUCH TOO busy for that," just remember: You're having a summer—summer's not having you. And that, my friends, is BDE.

Until next week,

Amanda Shapiro
Healthyish editor