![]() However, the rapid growth of the city over the past decade has brought you many satisfying spots to visit in its stead. One iconic rooftop bar in Asheville, the Skybar at the top of the Flatiron Building, closed in 2019, ending an era for one of the finest rooftop restaurants in town. There’s something wonderful about enjoying some nice night weather while relaxing and looking out on the mountains, especially if you time it right and catch a sunset.īeyond the fancier set of rooftop bars in Asheville, there are a variety of fun bars that happen to have a patio on a higher floor, offering the same purple mountains majesty with a more casual vibe. Whether you’re a local or a visitor for a party or some Biltmore touring, a rooftop bar is a great addition to your list of things to do in Asheville at night. ![]() If you’ve been here for a bit, you know that Asheville chefs and bartenders alike love a local ingredient, so don’t be surprised if the cocktail you’re sampling has honey from hives just outside city limits or herb infusions grown right there on the rooftop terrace. You don’t have to choose between the view and the menu either – the best rooftop restaurants in Asheville often come with delicious meal options and craft cocktails. For a small city, Asheville boasts an impressive number of terraces and outdoor dining options, including a variety of bars that keep the nightlife in Asheville fun even as you look down on the city lights around you. (Photography credit Giulia Giannini McGauran.) Join Madeleine on her CreativeMornings FieldTrip on Navigating Productivity Guilt on February 15! This is an edited extract from Madeleine Dore’s new book I Didn’t Do the Thing Today.There’s a really fun anticipation about walking into a typical building or a hotel with the knowledge that you’re headed for the roof to visit one of Asheville’s coolest rooftop bars. When we conflate productivity with worthiness, what we do is never enough. We can always do more, and there is always more to do. There’s the laundry thing, the catch-up thing, the replying to a text thing, the grocery shopping thing, the cooking thing, the cleaning thing, the creative thing, the exercise thing, the work thing, the medical thing, the thing we ought to do, the thing we don’t want to do, the thing we’ve put off despite it being the one important thing. With this pile of undone things often comes an undercurrent of guilt, anxiety or shame. Instead of being alive to the variances of what is done in a day-sometimes a little, sometimes a lot-we spiral in a slew of ‘if onlys’: if only I were more productive, if only I were more efficient, if only I were better, if only I were more like that person … then I could do it right, do enough, be enough. If our days have become crowded containers for what we did or did not do, perhaps we do not need to pursue more ways to be productive, but rather shake up the contents. I’ve had too many days to count that have been flattened by productivity guilt. They follow a pattern: there is the thing I should be doing, but for whatever reason I find myself not doing the thing at this time, so instead I don’t do anything. Wouldn’t it be more satisfying to at least enjoy the day instead of washing it away with guilt? How productivity narrows and creativity expands Instead of turning my attention to something else that can be done, the day seems to evaporate as I sit, stifled by the taunt, I didn’t do the thing today, I didn’t do the thing today. Productivity is too narrow a lens for our days. It flattens the day to a plan, an order, an outcome. When the day takes a different shape, we find ourselves coiled in a spiral, narrowing in on ourselves and our shortcomings. Productivity tells us to live sequentially, but our days rarely unfold in perfect order. Not only does each day vary, but we vary within them. We are constantly shifting, creating and re-creating parts of ourselves. I have come to see the value in being more flexible with the order and shape of things: I can see what I have done, or what I can do differently, or what can still be done later. I can find ways to expand my day beyond a certain kind of doing and define my own process.
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