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Time to Clean Up
Enough is enough. Matt and I are letting our physical environment get too cluttered. Some people aren’t bothered by clutter. Unfortunately, I am. It makes me feel claustrophobic. I keep brainstorming all the ways I want to make our house nicer, and yet step one is to simply keep it picked up. End of story. It doesn’t matter how much money we invest in nice furniture if we’re going to cover that furniture in crap.So I’ve already admitted the problem. What’s the next step for fixing the problem? I think I need to get at the root of the situation and figure out what’s causing it. First, it’s a … Read More
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Balanced Living
When I was lying in bed on Saturday morning just relishing the fact that my first obligation didn’t start until 3pm (our end-of-year class pool party), I looked at the bookshelf next to my bed and spotted a book I haven’t picked up in a while: Integrative Nutrition: Feeding Your Hunger for Health & Happiness.It’s a dense book–not one that’s amenable to skimming–but I decided to skim it anyway. I found a chapter on “Primary Food,” and this quote resonated with me:
… Read More“Primary food is more than what is on your plate. Healthy relationships, regular physical activity, a fulfilling career and a spiritual practice can fill your soul -
Summer Plans
My brother and me two summers ago in the mountains of ColoradoIf my obsessive planning rubs you the wrong way or if you think I overextend myself and need to relax more, you might not want to read this post.
Just saying.
You see, during the boring minutes of my photography workshop (which was only about 15 minutes out of an entire day), I decided to finalize my list of what I want to do with my wide-open summer (thank you to the antiquated K-12 educational system that still has us on an agrarian schedule!).
I started brainstorming a list a while back, but I wanted to solidify it, … Read More
