I love the suggestion to commission an illustration for the occasion.https://twitter.com/flomerboy/status/1151673068227399681?s=21 …
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I love the suggestion to commission an illustration for the occasion.https://twitter.com/flomerboy/status/1151673068227399681?s=21 …
Yes! Personalization, context, and detail are elements I look for. Many, actually. (1) short-story/poem/essay/riff etc dedicated to them on a topic of their interest, with details that might be little winks at past convos, or idiosyncrasies — privately published only to them;
(2) unique craft: bake; cook; paint; sing; music — learn to play their fav notes — even if awkward; (3) wish fulfillment: plan and execute an ordinary but novel experience they’ve never done before but have been meaning to “someday” (eg. ride a scooter; meet a magician etc)
Go on a cross town walk, with everyone invited :)
I'm not especially good at this, but I have a couple friends who are exceptional at it. Here are some things they've done:
- decorating their apartment in silly ways (e.g. like a French restaurant to welcome me home from Europe; using a fan + confetti as fake snow to welcome someone to Canada for the first time)
I have a tiny thing I do which is that I keep a little container of (uniquely delicious) chocolate-covered coconut-covered almonds that I call "Victory Beans" and whenever I or my peeps do something worth celebrating, we each eat one. It's a little ritual to reify the moment.pic.twitter.com/0VTHv3W03o
I also log them, so it becomes a record of a bunch of moments when we felt really jubilant. I'm thinking I might want a name other than "victory" though because I've recently been reflecting that framing things in terms of "winning" reinforces subtle zero-sum assumptions.
Depends on the person, but I like writing cards / cherish the ones I've received from others!
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