The case for clearing your calendar one weekend a month
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Summer has a way of sneaking up on you. In May, you were excited about everything: the outdoor concert, the friend’s rooftop birthday, the weekend trip to the coast. Now it’s the end of July, you’ve been to all of it, and you’re still waking up Monday feeling weirdly flat. Remedying this feeling is what the empty weekend is for. One weekend a month with nothing on the books. No plans that require you to be anywhere, no commitments that need you presentable an
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