Today’s parent blog post was called Watch Art.

A watch face is the most personal real estate in modern life. Think about it. You check your watch dozens of times a day — more than your phone, more than a mirror. It’s the one screen that exists purely for you, consulted privately, briefly, repeatedly. Nobody else’s algorithm decides what appears there. No notifications, no feed, no one else’s content. Just yours. Every time.

Which makes what Audrie is proposing here quietly radical. She’s not talking about customization as decoration. She’s talking about intention. Choosing what greets you every time you check the time — a Magnus Carlsen chess homage, a dinosaur, a piano, a guitar — is choosing what micro-moment of joy you’re gifting yourself thirty times a day.

That’s not trivial. That’s architecture of mood.
The opening line says it all: “we can always find new ways to give ourselves positive vibes, irrelevant to the conditions around us.” That word irrelevant is doing enormous work. Not despite the conditions. Not when conditions allow. Irrelevant to them entirely.

A watch face can’t fix the world. But it can interrupt the world for exactly the two seconds it takes to check the time. Two seconds of something you chose, something that makes you smile, something that reminds you who you are outside of everything being asked of you.

Personal sunshine. On your wrist. 🌟