Create Space to Live and Love
Imagine you’ve just moved into a new one room space. Aside from a bathroom, you only have one room put your stuff and live your life. The size of the room doesn’t matter as much as what you will put in it, or what you won’t put in it. How will you live there? You [...]
How To Reclaim The Lost Art of Lingering
When was the last time you let time slip away and lingered over something? Perhaps it was a meal, or spending time with someone you don’t see very often. Maybe you lingered over a book and went to bed much later than planned. In some countries, lingering is a way of life. It would be [...]
The Little Guide to Starting Small
Every lasting change that I’ve made has started with one small step. I’ve made my share of “go big or go home” moves, but after awhile my momentum waned and the new habits faded. In the last five or six years, I wised up. My changes have been slow and deliberate, instead of fast and furious. [...]
Capture Simple Beauty: mini-mission
I love boats. I’ve loved the simple beauty of boats for as long as I can remember. Walking the docks in Newport Rhode Island as a child, I always wondered about the boats and their people. There was beauty in all of them. The fishing boats, the house boats, and the dinghies. The sleek, shiny, [...]
It’s Time for a Lovely Life
Anytime I write about the lovely in your life, you respond. You comment and email from the heart with your gratitude for the lovely you have, grief for the lovely you’ve lost, and hope for the lovely you still search for. I love less, there is no surprise there. But when it comes to [...]
Change One World: mini-mission
I live in a state where my vote doesn’t count. Really, it doesn’t. I’m ok with that. In fact, while I am aware of political, big world stories, I am not as interested as I used to me. I don’t want to change the world anymore. I want to change one world. One world at [...]
Immediate Gratification is for Sissies
Tears pooled up behind my eyes earlier this week in yoga class. In a deep lunge, left leg forward, I reached my right arm behind my lower back toward my left thigh. Then my left arm went under my left leg reaching for the right arm. It sounds like a mean game of Twister but [...]
Enjoy Every Sandwich Book Giveaway
One of the items on my Love List is reading. I love reading and started a book list to share the books I’m reading with you and to gain a little momentum. It’s easy to put something fun like reading at the bottom of the day’s list, but I am starting to enjoy carving reading [...]
Ask The Soul Shaking Question
Why are we so afraid to ask the question? Life is full of questions. Some will always be unanswered, but some deserve a response. Sometimes we already know the answer, which makes us go into complete denial when it comes to asking the question. We might think things are ok now, so why worry about [...]
Notes From a Minimalist Teen
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Chase Miller. Everything I own fits in a suitcase, except my surfboards. I love country music and the freedom that comes from owning very few things. My name is Chase Miller and I am a minimalist teenager. My journey of minimalism began 3 years ago at the [...]
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