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“Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson. Most of us think of caring for ourselves as an extra-curricular activity – something we squeeze into our [...]

“Look for the order within the chaos… Moving into a new house has created a sort of upheaval and chaos. About a week ago I decided to take one drawer in the kitchen and make it [...]

As I see it there is clearing and there is clearing. There is the old paradigm of clearing clutter that makes us feel bad when we fail and sets us up for disappointment, again and again. And [...]

“I live by the truth that ‘No’ is a complete sentence.” –Anne Lamott, O Magazine. Here’s another excerpt from Your Spacious Self with a simple practice that will help you learn [...]

Seeing takes time. -Georgia O’Keefe. Dear Friends, On January 1st of this year, my husband Jay and I left our home in Concord, Massachusetts to spend six months in the mystical, magical [...]

“Rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” –JK Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address. I’ve written scads on the subject of how our living spaces are [...]

Cowbirds or starlings, I’m not sure what it was that we witnessed last week soaring in the high desert country of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. This sunset ritual is not to be believed. [...]

“How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward” –Spanish Proverb.   Rest. Doesn’t that sound simply divine? If it’s so delicious, why is it that we don’t put our [...]

I am mesmerized by this black and white video of a guy dancing in a gabled space, backlit by a window, to the music of Parov Stelars’ “All Night.” I wouldn’t call him the [...]

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”–Eleanor Roosevelt The other day I posted this question on my page on Facebook: What is one thing that scares you? Is it possible to lean into [...]