Floor to ceiling windows stream in light that warms up the bare concrete floors, which are a bit cold. The modern coffee bar is space efficient and a very cool fixture in and of itself. With local art and books gracing the white walls the shop is calm and peaceful. There was nothing too strikingly exceptional about the menu, probably just good iterations of all the classics).Īmbiance-4.5( Happy Bones is light, airy and meant to incite creativity. The cappuccino was one of the best I have ever had and served in the perfect sized glass with beautiful latte art adorning it. Our barista seemed a little hesitant when I asked what single-origins they were serving up which made me opt for a Counter Culture espresso cappuccino. A Kiwi accent on the male barista did not hurt one bit either).Ĭoffee Knowledge/Expertise-4.5(Coffee shops seem to easily capture my heart when they serve of Counter Culture Coffee and Happy Bones is no exception. The location is buzzing with hipness and fashionable people to gaze at).īarista Cuteness-4(Not too much interaction with the adorable baristas but they are very kind and jovial. You can hit up Happy Bones before cruising the boutiques of SoHo, heading to the Bowery, or before hopping on the Spring Street metro. Location-5(Located in NoLita on Broome Street, one of the the hottest new areas of Manhattan. Listen to your body and your mind - with or without the help of a pug on the internet.Get happy at my new favorite NYC coffee shop, feel good categories out of 5. Grades and clubs are not more important than your well-being. As we enter finals season, remember this: ask for an extension, cancel plans, take a self-care day. We may have more No Bones Days than we did pre-pandemic, and some tasks may require more spoons than before - and that’s completely fine. We ought to recognize these feelings as we remerge and Noodles and Miserando offer us a way to do so. Readjusting to life post-pandemic will take time. In fact, thinking about one’s “social battery” in terms of spoons could be a way to process how energy and capacity for interaction have changed since March 2020. However, the Spoon Theory is not exclusive to disabled and chronically ill people. For Miserandino, who lives with lupus, just getting out of bed requires one spoon, whereas an able-bodied or non-chronically ill person could use one spoon on their entire morning routine. She theorized that disabled and chronically ill people have fewer spoons and have to use more spoons for tasks where others may not require any. In her essay of the same name, she posited that everyone has a set number of spoons each day which represent finite units of energy. In 2003, Christine Miserandino created the Spoon Theory. While the language of bones and no bones is new, before there were bones, there were spoons.ĭisabled and chronically ill people have been using language similar to that of Noodles for over 15 years. To date, Noodle’s gift of prophecy has caught the attention of sports teams, state governments, and major news networks. Simply put, “Bones Days” are good days, and “No Bones Days” are self-care days. This Groundhog-Day-like ritual does not predict when winter will end - rather it sets the mood for the day to come. Millions of people turned to TikTok and Twitter to see if Noodle would prop himself up in the morning, declaring that day a “Bones Day,” or if he would flop back into his dog bed, making it a “No Bones Day.” Fortunately, social media was already creating that language.Īt the end of October, a 13-year-old pug named Noodle took over the internet. Things that brought us joy before the pandemic, like seeing friends or going to a concert, feel weird and draining.Īs people hover in this liminal space between the normalcy of pre-pandemic life and the continuously shifting protocol in the United States, they need the language to express what they are feeling. After almost two years of being by ourselves at home, we are back in society.
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