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The 7 Necessities for Living Your Dharma

“You can’t be anything you want. But you can be everything you are.” ���Jay Shetty, author of Think Like A Monk Oscar Claude Monet, the renowned father of Impressionism painting as the movement of art history came to be known due to the name given to his painting Impression, Soleil Levant (Impression, Sunrise, 1872), began […]

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This & That: January 19, 2024

A new novel of intrigue, another for channeling Jane Austen now as an amateur sleuth, and yet another revealing similarities between our beauty trends today and those of Renaissance Italy. As well, a film adapted from a highly acclaimed book about exploring the origin of an unwanted past, a beloved British series returns for a […]

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Nyad, a film: petit plaisir #373

Nyad, the biopic about marathon swimmer Diana Nyad, who after four attempts (five, including her first attempt at the age of 30 in 1978) at the age of 62 to 64, finally swam the 102 miles from Havana, Cuba to Key West, Florida in 2013. Now I can remember as a teacher, teaching current events […]

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373: How to Nourish Your Creative Being: Cultivate An Artistic Hearth & Home

“Part of art making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done, over and over���and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful . . . a life lived within productive patterns. The life of a productive artist becomes filled with useful conventions […]

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12 January Ponderings . . . (2024)

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Gardening in January at Le Papillon, 2024

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This & That: January 12, 2024

Books! We’ve got books on all sorts of topics as you perhaps are cozying in during winter’s performance. As well, a new French film that was just released here in the states that I cannot wait to watch, more films and television series to pique your curiosity about health, history and more, and with January […]

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Outfits of the Month (3): Bits & Bobs for Snuggling in and Dressing Up during the Winter Months

January arrives and we often size up our budgets and nip them in a bit, but then we realize how good it feels to dress well for the season and for our life routine. Deepening our awareness of our budget and differentiating between needs and wants is always a worthwhile practice anytime of year, but […]

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Why Your Past Does Not Predict Your Future (the latter of which has every potentiality of being what you dream)

“Manifesting is about knowing what you want and then letting that go.” ���Roxie Nafousi, author of Manifest in Action A perplexing paradox of manifesting the vision we have in our mind’s eye about our life in the future involves letting go. Letting go and enjoying the journey, trusting that we, due to our clarity pairing […]

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This & That: January 5, 2024

Wonderful new films – one set in England, one in France and an English film set in Paris! As well two new series I highly recommend – again, one set in Paris and one in Victorian England. And most definitely there are oodles of books on topics wide-ranging – reading, reducing the busy, art, mythology, […]

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