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Musings
What it means to moodle
Coined in 1938, the term "moodling" means to do things aimlessly, melding the relaxed actions of doodling and mindfulness into one perfect word.
Date
January 8th, 2025
Author
Beni
In the first two weeks of the New Year, there's a slow and then all at once sensation that the time of holiday-ing has come to an end; and the deadline to begin again has arrived, eagerly tapping its watch. While there's truth and potential to this get to it mentality, there's also a persuasive argument to be made for dialing down the haste and setting a slower pace for the next few hundred days ahead. Less rushed, your eyes will widen, making space for the world as it comes your way.
In lieu of a listicle or prose on productivity, we'll remind you — again paraphrasing the writer Brenda Ueland— that inspiration is not kinetic like a bolt of lightning or a flash in the pan but rather it comes slowly and quietly all of the time. To that end, we plan on moodling in the months to come, exploring the archives of things that interest and excite us to wander and wonder more and often. After all, inspiration is the lifeblood of living and the water that keeps us sane and satiated.
Should you find yourself struggling with the idea of slowing, picture the rugs in our courtyard hanging to dry under the heat of the sun. This process is immoveable, rushed by nothing. Each rug, soaked from the washing process, takes the time it needs to come into its own like a caterpillar growing into a set of wings or a pomegranate purpling on a branch.
Ripe for armchair traveling: a collection of archival images and covers from HOLDAY, America's first travel magazine.
If you're jonesing for a world to explore for inspiration, give Chalet — our winter capsule collection — a visit. It's got ten tall pile rugs, each depicting scenes worthy of rumination and retreat.
Rugs drying under the warmth of the sun at our home office in Morocco.
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