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  How to have a more joyful vacation

  Travel is an inherently joyful experience, especially when we're doing it for fun. But it turns out there are lots of ways you can maximize the joy you get out of your vacation, many of which are backed by science.

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  Unconventional Geometries: A Visit to Gee’s Bend

  Last week I was intrigued to read that Michelle Obama’s choice of dress in her official portrait as First Lady might be an homage to the quilters of Gee’s Bend. I first wrote about these artworks in 2009, and fell so much in love with them that when I was researching Joyful, I decided to make a trip to Alabama to meet some of the quilters and see where they live and work.

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  A joyful journey to the seven magic mountains

  This week our theme is colorblocking, so I thought it made sense to kick things off with some colorful blocks.

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  Tokyo City Guide

  I’ve been wanting to do City Guides on this blog for a long time, and I’m excited to kick things off with a guide to one of my favorite cities: Tokyo!

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  Flying with Flowers

  There’s a thing I do sometimes when traveling that might seem a little silly. It started a few years ago on a trip to Seattle.

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  The joy of missing out: Travel edition

  Several years ago I did a post on an idea called the joy of missing out, or JOMO, for short.