My Beautiful Blog

If blogs are homes, then I’ve outgrown mine. Again. It’s been nearly a year of musing, shmoozing, sharing, wondering, nooding, exploring… Expanding. Two posts a week adds up, [...]

Cultivating Simplicity

Here’s something I don’t understand: Seeing a drainer full of dry dishes getting piled onto by a layer of wet ones because nobody bothers to put away the original set. Am I the only [...]

Sixty-Second Clearing To Calm the Mind

What’s going through your mind? What I mean is… What are you thinking about? Right this second. Do you have 35 things spinning around in your head at the same time? Are you skimming [...]

Packing: How Much Stuff is Too Much?

“I had no idea that lots of things housed in a tiny space could result in space feeling clear.”–sbv I received an email query from a friend the other day, who, like me, is sending her [...]

The Cost of Clutter

Ever wonder what all those extra bottles of shampoo you hang onto (just in case) cost in REAL dollars? Throw in the creams, gels, half-used tubes of toothpaste, and make-up that looked really [...]

Do Nothing: Reflections on the Art of Non-Doing

Part 5 of 5 Why is it that whenever someone catches us doing nothing, we immediately jump to our feet so that we’re not perceived as total time-wasting deadbeats? If that is something you [...]

Refresh (and Beautify) with Water

Part 4 of 5 Drinking good water (half your body weight in ounces every day) is like hitting the refresh button on your body…And the fourth way to ease the side-effects of clearing.* [...]