This week welcoming the new year in we’re looking for joy in its quieter form — the small, ordinary moments we nearly miss. We talk about what blocks it (overwhelm, rigid plans) and what helps it slip back in: slowing down, leaving space, laughing with a friend, a surprise cinema trip, a rainbow over the compost heap. Leave the forcing and performing behind. Just notice those little things around you . If you try one thing, open your palms and allow yourself to see where joy’s already landed in your life.

Meet Louisa & Emily—two creatives, long-standing friends, and seekers of meaning in the everyday. For over two decades,

Louisa has redefined what interior design can be through her pioneering studio, House of Grey. A visionary in her field, she has championed a whole-person, whole-world approach to design, proving that sustainabi ...