healthy food, lifestyle, travel, & everyday moments.
Sometimes you just have those moments when a concept you’ve been trying to understand for a while just clicks.
Recently I had one of those moments. Life is very busy and overwhelming lately. We’ve had lots of things to do and places to go, lots of thinking about the future, lots of decisions to make. It feels like I’ve been going nonstop since getting back from Hawaii in mid-April, honestly.… Read More »
I actually have a few reflections I’ve written as I’ve been decluttering our house that I’m planning to share this month! Yay for some writing inspo again. It’s been a drought over here for a while.
Last night I was looking for a saved Instagram post. It was a video of a bucket full of fluffy white kittens set to cute music. (I’m obsessed with cats, for the uninitiated, although I can’t keep one because my husband has allergies. So videos have to substitute for the real thing.)
Anyways, I thought I hadn’t saved many Instagram posts over the years. I didn’t remember saving too many.… Read More »
I recently read two books that inspired me to tackle the clutter around our house in a thorough, maintain-able way.
The first was The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning. Now, I’m not planning on dying anytime soon, but in the book, she writes that you shouldn’t wait until you’re contemplating death to part with the things that aren’t serving you. Maybe you’re undergoing another life change like divorce, downsizing, or (in our case) contemplating an international move. Whatever the case, life is lighter and freer without the unused excess.
The other book was The Day the World Stops Shopping. It is a fantastic read that inspired significant personal reflection for me and my relation to things. It feels like a foundational book for anti-consumerism in the same way that The Omnivore’s Dilemma or In Defense of Food were foundational books for the anti-big ag/sustainable ag movements.… Read More »
