It’s going to be a hot one in Wisconsin this week. Perfect for taking a dip in a lake. I hope you are staying cool wherever you may be. If you need a little break this week, check out my favorite links from around the web…

• Your inspirational video of the week: a most charming 25-year-old who has never had the wish to dress normally. (Thank you Cindy!)
  

• Procrastinators, just don’t. Don’t follow this guy. You’ll never get a damn thing done.
  

• If you’ve struggled with something that feels heavy, read this.
  

• Rejection letters, man, are tough to receive. If I received this one, I'd go find a cliff from which to fling myself.
  

• And I need to be buying practical farm work boots but what about these? Or these. You can get them here.
  

• Papier-mâché classes in East London? Um, yes! I want to make the fox.
  

• Jerry Seinfeld’s apartment in New York and its never-before-seen fourth wall, and its collection of Chantal cookware. (Thank you Marjorie!)
  

• I’ve spent an hour on this Iranian hat designer’s Instagram. She’s incroyable!
  

• Here’s a terrific job opportunity if you know how to throw clay. The studio is an inspiration for us as we think about the possibilities for our farm.
  

• This is a cool 30-second video of linocut screen-printing.
  

• Need a pet portrait? What a beautiful memento of your fur baby.
  

• This essay devastated me in its truthful beauty. Here is the purpose of art.
  

• Antiques of the Week: Yes it's beautiful outside but winter is inevitable and then you'll be wishing for something like this where you can recline, prostrate in grief, for the summer of '19. I can't drink martinis, but I can wear them! Lastly, click here for a few neat antiques priced very reasonably from my neighbor who is moving. Email her if you are interested.

Photo by Aaron Burden via Unsplash.