Hi everyone! I’m Douglas, the founder of Spirited Away, and I want to tell you the story of how our store came to be in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
I started to drink more mindfully in the summer of 2020 when I no longer had an evening commute home from work. I spent all day working in my apartment and then “commuted” home by closing my laptop. Gone were the days of a subway or Citibike ride home from the office to decompress and switch from “work” mode to “life” mode. So, my wife and I became even more reliant than before on the ritual of an after-work cocktail. It wasn’t about the effects of the alcohol – it was about the ritual of mixing a cocktail, the slowing down, the acknowledgment that the workday is over, it’s time to spend time together or with friends. However, I was soon drinking more alcohol than I would have liked given the fact that I had also been thinking a lot about health, wellness, and, in particular, longevity. READ MORE