Hey, you. Yeah, you! The one doomscrolling for clues about how the swing states are voting. While we understand that is mostly what youâll be doing for the next few days, weâve called you in here to distract you for 10 minutes. Because mental health breaks are as important as this election. So please, turn off your news source of choice (and your brain) and follow the instructions below if you want to get that tension out of your shoulders.
First, ease into the break by hitting play on this gorgeous Karen O and Willie Nelson cover of âUnder Pressure.â Close your eyes, take some deep breaths, and listen to a song that acknowledges your stress, then asks you to leave it behind.
Now, sit back, relax and enjoy this evidence that miracles do happen.
A Dutch train burst past the end of its elevated tracks in the Netherlands on Monday.
But instead of crashing to the ground 30 feet below, the metro train was caught â held aloft by an artist's massive sculpture of a whale's tail. https://t.co/XW7AzFFBn4
— NPR (@NPR) November 3, 2020
Oh, look! Itâs Bob Ross feeding a baby squirrel named Peapod!
And some pictures of animals that are happy and adorable even though theyâre all bald:
Hairless animal stars from Instagram. Top row: @mrbigglesworthrabbit and @adventuresofgeorgieandfrankie. Bottom row: @norman_aht and @blondie_thelovebird.
Now hereâs a baby sloth taking a bath.
And Sir Patrick Stewart reading a Shakespearean sonnet to his dog. (Her name is Zoe.)
Sonnet 152 with my favourite pibble gurl. #ASonnetADay pic.twitter.com/By5hDOQgLF
— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) October 1, 2020
Now seems like a good time to listen to some baby bears purring.
Have you ever heard bear cubs make their âsound of contentmentâ? @RaeWynnGrant pic.twitter.com/CpuuM86imw
— John Fusco (@JohnFusco12) September 25, 2020
And look at this rare yellow turtleâs derpy little face.
Today a Yellow Turtle was rescued from a Pond in Burdwan,WB. It's one kind of a rarely occuring Flapshell Turtle. @ParveenKaswan @SanthoshaGubbi @RandeepHooda @rameshpandeyifs pic.twitter.com/enTyNAkxmP
— Debashish Sharma, IFS (@deva_iitkgp) October 27, 2020
If that little fella got you in the mood for some color, watch San Diego artist @boelterdesignco, at work.
Now weâll bring you back to reality the gentlest way we possibly can. Itâs Leslie Sbrocco from Check Please! talking about sparkling wines with a very nice Spanish lady.
And as you go back the rest of your very stressful day, might we recommend following @dedosbailarines1 on TikTok? The finger-dancing channel is just the right combination of surreal, clever and stupid youâll probably need to get through the rest of the week.
One final tip… If you find yourself in a fit of insomnia tonight, thereâs always Cardi B. doing ASMR…
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