Spring Bucket List

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Ever since this past summer when I felt an extra set of sads as Labor Day loomed, I’ve made a point to try and get all I can out of a season. Write it down and do it - easy as that.

Winter flew and now we’re in that ambiguous month but it’s here, I swear, March snow be damned because spring is almost here. I can’t wait for the flowers and the pasty legs. That first time you eat dinner outside and the way the ocean is just shy of bearable the last week in May. Spring, guys, let’s get excited. See below for plans and let me know what I’m missing.

EAT
The Spotted Pig (May 8)
Doughnuts: Dunwell Doughnuts (Mar. 30), Baked by Butterfield (Mar. 23)
Potlikker
Brooklyn Winery (May 4)
Battersby (carryover from the last list) (May 1)
Cream Puffs: Choux Factory, (May 15) Beard Papa’s (April 21)
PKNY
Kinfolk Studios
Back Forty West (Mar. 19)

MAKE

Salted Butter Caramel Ice Cream (April 28)
Strawberry Cookie Dough Ice Cream by Joy the Baker (Mar. 24)
Basil Mint Mojitos
Peach Margaritas
Something with asparagus, avocado, and artichoke
Something with scallops and sweet peas

READ

Tenth of December (May 1)
Rules of Civility (Mar. 30)
Contagious: Why Things Catch On
Fever Pitch (requested by someone who insists I’m a lunatic for having gone 25 years without reading) (April 13)
Lean In (April 2)

DO

Sunset walk/run over BK + Manhattan bridges
Dia:Beacon
Nitehawk Cinema
Film Forum
Spring cleaning (closet and casa) 
a class at Murray’s
Brooklyn Art Library
a race of some sort (May 11)
DryBar (April 5)

Oldies:
Fall Bucket List
Winter Bucket List

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I wanted to take a photo of my birthday bouquet (peonies and lilacs, courtesy of le office) but the poor thing is on day five and looking a little rough around the edges so here is a virtual smorgasbord of springtime decoration. xx Images:“Peony Season in Paris” by Jordan Ferney | Oh Happy DayMay Tulips via Kate SpadeApple Blossoms via {frolic}Spring in Central Park via Hither & Tither
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I wanted to take a photo of my birthday bouquet (peonies and lilacs, courtesy of le office) but the poor thing is on day five and looking a little rough around the edges so here is a virtual smorgasbord of springtime decoration. xx

Images:
“Peony Season in Paris” by Jordan Ferney | Oh Happy Day
May Tulips via Kate Spade
Apple Blossoms via {frolic}
Spring in Central Park via Hither & Tither

Ah, world, what lessons you prepare for us,
even in the leafless winter,
even in the ashy city.
I am thinking now
of grief, and of getting past it;
I feel my boots
trying to leave the ground,
I feel my heart
pumping hard. I want
to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.
Mary Oliver, “Starlings in Winter” (via thecupcaketologist)

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