My kimono is my housecoat I wear it all day and night if I don’t go anywhere. something very thin and sheer and close to the body, but still loose feeling. Pj’s or au naturel? I sleep in a floor-length white slip. I love big knit blankets, too, which are handmade-not by me. How many pillows do you have? I have eight pillows surrounding me.

“I think dogs represent friends, and since I am the closest companion and friend that I have, maybe it’s a reminder to do a little more self-nurturing because I always do so much for everybody else.” “White makes me feel clean and pure, like I can think and dream,” she says, recalling her last reverie, about a mangy golden retriever who sat outside her doorstep, patiently waiting to be fed. It’s a heavenly vision only furthered by the fact that Badu, who clocks in a solid eight hours of sleep when not on the road, also ritually drapes herself in all white: Her hemp sheets, her eight pillows stuffed with lavender, her handmade knit blanket, her floor-length satin slip. “I listen to the chimes when I fall asleep at night.” “There is a nice gentle breeze that blows off the lake, and I can hear them singing all around the house,” Badu says over the phone from her kitchen, where she is cooking breakfast for her daughters-grits for Puma, 13, and oatmeal for Mars, 8. A pair of beat-up red-and-blue Converse hangs among them.

Some dangle from clay cylinders and tin tree-like figures, one falls from a yin and yang shield. So we’re asking some of the busiest people we know how they get ready for a good night’s rest.Įrykah Badu’s house, which opens onto White Rock Lake in Dallas, is surrounded by handmade wind chimes in silver and ash wood. Maybe it’s the news, or the natural disasters, but it’s been harder to get to sleep lately.

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