Thought Clouds

Wondering what a thought cloud is? Set a timer for 60 seconds and write down every thought that goes through your mind without censoring it. Phrases, single words, repetitive grunts, random [...]

Gratitude: A Visual Feast

  “There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” – Rumi ‘Tis the season. Gratitude in pictures…and a movie. What are you grateful for? How does gratitude [...]

Harvest Praise

The late fall colors may be more muted in tone right now, but the stark intensity of exposed branches takes my breath away. You gotta love a season that produces such a splendid array of  gnarly [...]

Nurturing Creativity

  I’m writing a book about Simplicity. I’m finding the process excruciatingly not simple! After two days of thrashing and butting up against all my resisting, exhausting, [...]

Cultivating Simplicity

Here’s something I don’t understand: Seeing a drainer full of dry dishes getting piled onto by a layer of wet ones because nobody bothers to put away the original set. Am I the only [...]

Gathering Our Self

I love the simplicity of venturing out every week to the local CSA farm where we get our produce. Tromping through the fields to gather fresh flowers, pick raspberries (which never make it past [...]