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“Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.”–Henry David Thoreau What do you do when you’re stuck? You slow down, take a deep breath, and you simplify. It is the best [...]

“Wouldn’t take nothing for my journey now.”–Maya Angelou. A year ago this month, my husband, Jay, and I went on a river trip from Amsterdam to Budapest (then overland to Prague) to celebrate a [...]

“The point of the labyrinth is to enjoy the journey. All you have to do is follow the path and you will get there.”–Denny Dyke. Labyrinths have been around for centuries. Not to be [...]

“Let the past drift away in the water.” –Japanese saying Water features can put us in a delicious trance – like the fifteen-second video below that I made in a chapel atrium in [...]

Why is it so difficult to do what we say we’re going to do? The lizard brain. – Seth Godin, “Quieting the lizard brain.” You’ve probably heard me talk plenty about slowing [...]

“Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.  If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things – this is the best season of your [...]

As my daughter prepared to leave home for college for the first time last fall, I wrote a post a called “Packing: How Much Stuff is Too Much.” I thought my “bottom line” [...]