The Joy of Staying Inside the Lines (Or Destroying Them Entirely)
Picture this: You are sitting at your desk. Your inbox is a blazing dumpster fire of "per my last email" and "let’s circle back to align our paradigms." Your phone is buzzing with notifications about things you should care about but absolutely do not have the emotional bandwidth to process. Your brain feels less like a finely tuned machine and more like an old desktop computer with 47 browser tabs open, three of them are frozen, and one is playing random video music you can’t locate. What do you do? You could go for a hard run, but running involves sweating, and honestly, you've already showered today. You could try to meditate, but sitting silently with your own thoughts right now feels a bit like being trapped in an elevator with a highly caffeinated wasp. You could scroll social media, but we all know that just leaves you feeling vaguely annoyed and thoroughly exhausted. Enter the humble, unsung hero of modern sanity: the coloring book. Yes, you read that rig...