Do you have a pair of cozy slippers? Slippers you are really fond of? Those cushy ones, or maybe tattered ones you just can’t let go of, because they feel like home when you slip your feet into them? I have those. My home slippers are mismatched. One black one red.…
Posts tagged as “mindful living”
‘Adventure awaits’ That phrase sends a tingle up my spine. And if you spend any time on social media (d’uh!) you must have seen it popping up with a few ads, for good measure. Then, of course, it becomes mandatory to take a quick fantasy vacation “just to see what is…
I started the year determined to focus on the good stuff and that, to me, meant minimizing time spent online. I took time to stand and stare. I am also on a mission to giveaway/donate/dispose by decluttering at home. I read this line, somewhere, in the context of decluttering: What if you…
“What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.” I learned that poem by W.H.Davies in school and loved it. For some reason it has stayed with me, sitting in my mind, perhaps as a reminder for those days when I let myself feel…
I’ll bet that almost each one of you went into reflection mode in the last week of December, 2016 to take stock of the year gone by and contemplated—maybe even evaluated your lives to see if the year had lived up to your expectations. Did it? I know it is not…
Each year, I set myself a rough target for donating money to charities. This also helps me make plans in relation to how much work I need to do to be able to meet this goal. But as a freelancer, there are months when work is not as steady as I’d…
As I write this, I am looking within myself to take stock of how I feel. Here’s why: there are happy thoughts, sad thoughts, and worry-thoughts racing through my head. Why sad? Unexpected deaths in the family. Why worry? Loved ones in hospital. I won’t go into the details, since we…