Tag: August
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Writing as Breath
For me, writing is as essential as breathing. When life gets busy and routine slips, holding back my thoughts creates quiet anxiety. Realizing that pen and paper provide a safe space to process life without burdening others brought an immediate sense of relief, clarity, and renewed joy.
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Navigating Energy: Why Hosting Drains Us (Even in the Background)
Even when staying in the background, hosting visitors can drain your energy. Different people bring distinct vibrations, and for empaths or energy-sensitive souls, managing that presence requires balance. Recognizing how external energies impact our well-being is key to resting, resetting, and protecting our peace before the next wave of guests arrive.
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Bearing Witness
Revisiting the landscape of grief, I find it isn’t something I ‘fix.’ Born into non-attachment via international adoption and displacement, I embrace life’s transience. While a ‘quantum leap’ was predicted, I feel I am simply evolving—on a daily cycle of grieving and grace, standing on the precipice of non-attachment, offering only to bear witness with…
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The Surreality of Returning Home
Returning home after travel always brings a strange temporal vertigo. Between adjusting to familiar rhythms, navigating the mild angst of resettling our space, and reflecting on our city living “research” in Barcelona, we’re still contemplating future possibilities.
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Croatia and the Adriatic
As promised, here’s a post about our trip to Croatia and time bobbing on a boat in the Adriatic Sea. For some years now, Croatia has been a highly recommended destination for travel thanks to the Game of Thrones being filmed there and its latest entry into the European Union. Its clear waters and fairly…
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We’re on a boat!
This might be the only post until next week as we are currently on vacation on a boat in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Croatia. We drove from our house to Bari on the east coast of Italy, which is about six hours away, caught an 8-hr ferry to Dubrovnik and stayed one…
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Another Little Escape
It’s been a little quiet here the last week or so as I was with guests, then headed to France for a few days to see friends and enjoy the sea. There is something different in the vibe and energy with those in the Var, where I go to visit. Perhaps, it is the closeness…
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A Little Escape
I’ve been in the marvelously cooler UK for the past five days. So much of my mental state has shifted in this time, just by being in the lower temperatures. What was I doing in the UK you ask? Where did I go, you want to know? Let me sum up, then. I went to…
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On the way to 108
So, today I finished 70 sun salutations for Day 16 of my 28-day challenge to build up to 108 in one go. I wrote when I was starting it two weeks ago. When I woke up this morning, I was feeling keen. I thought to myself that it’s only another 38 rounds to the full…
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The Chaos Pendulum
Life is very good. People who do not know us or our history have told us that they can never imagine being able to live as we do. People who do not know us or our history think that what we have now was easy to obtain–for us. People who do not know us or…
