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410: What True Compassion Is and How to Employ It By Default, part cinq (What Lies at the Heart of Living Simply Luxuriously)

“Just as we are wired to be in connection with each other, we are wired with an impulse to help, with an instinct for compassion.” —Deb Dana, author of Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory Empathy in action. While to empathize with another is a good step, a step that acknowledges […]

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Part Quatre – How to Anchor Our Life in Contentment Each Day: Understanding the Nervous System (What Lies at the Heart of Living a Simply Luxurious Life)

“Anchors are essential to staying safe in response to changing conditions . . . when we are anchored, we have a sense of being safely held so we can venture out without becoming adrift. We are connected to a state of regulation and have room to explore the world around us.” —Dana Deb, LCSW, author […]

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8 September Ponderings . . . (2025)

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This & That: September 12, 2025

Bursting at the seams in all the right ways. We’ve got books – fiction, cookbooks, inspired by French history, hopeful books, health books and more. Films for Anglophiles and films for family reconciliation, returning favorite television dramas with engaging leading ladies, clothes – oh my! – to continue to polish your autumn wardrobe – loafers, […]

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Outfits of the Month (5): A Classic British-Inspired Fall Wardrobe

Can you feel it? ☺️ A foot has been stepped into Autumn, and I felt it just this past weekend. Intermittent thunder and lightning storms, sprinkled with rainshowers ushered in autumn and gave notice that summer was on the way toward the exit. The first scarf worn on the walk. The first though of pulling […]

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The Everyday ‘Sides’ of Living Simply Luxuriously, Part Trois (Who is TSLL Written For)

“Our world runs on desire. We would not have been born without sexual desire. Without continuing desire we would die. There is desire for love, connection, understanding, growth. When people lose their desire to live, they jump off a bridge or swallow pills. We need desire. And yet desire is also a great challenge for […]

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This & That: September 5, 2025

Books to take us into the kitchen, books about creativity, books about gardening, money, Dior and more. A favorite mystery series returns, quite a few style finds for your fall capsule wardrobe with subtle signature details, décor finds for uber style as well as functionality to elevate the everyday tasks and daily rituals, plus much […]

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Samba, French film – petit plaisir #409

A film that takes us back to 2014, but no less worthwhile watching now in 2015. Omar Sy (Lupin, Intouchables) stars as Samba a migrant from Senegal who is trying to stay in France legally. Charlotte Gainsbourg (Étoile) stars as Alice, a woman who is on sabbatical from reaching burn-out in her corporate job. During […]

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409: How to Make Living Itself An Art, Part Deux (Who is TSLL Written For?)

“To making living itself an art, that is the goal.” —Henry Miller To look up the definition of art through an academic lens is to discover there is no one agreed upon definition of art, and to my eye that is what makes it all the more beautiful to cultivate in the way we live […]

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Who is TSLL Written For? What Resides at the Heart of Living Simply Luxuriously, Part Une

“The thinking and compassionate person’s blog with everyday ‘sides’ of living well to savor.” —TSLL’s guiding axiom An eclectic group. A heterogeneous group, simply put, the community of TSLL is diverse. Diverse in the sense that what each of our lives look like to an onlooker will look entirely different – our age, where we […]

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