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Take a moment for something beautiful

“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ~Berthold Auerbach~
Take a moment and listen to this. If you’re in your office, close the door and turn up the volume. Put on headphones. Do whatever it takes to be able to focus on nothing but this music. It will take less than [...]

7 Ways to Simplify Your Writing

This is a guest post by Loren Blinde of Writing Power. Loren teaches college English, and she launched Writing Power to help people enrich their lives by improving their writing. Feel free to contact her at loren@writingpower.net

Many people begin to pursue simplicity in part to make their lives easier. They resolve [...]

Seeing the beauty in the world around us

I admire photographers because they can capture the beauty in so many things that are 1. either extremely ordinary or 2. obviously beautiful, but difficult to reproduce in a photo.
I stumbled upon a wonderful Flickr stream full of photos I found remarkable, unexpected or made an involuntary smile break out across my face. As I [...]

Merry Christmas from Oregon

Merry Christmas from a damp, green, beautiful Oregon! I hope it’s a wonderful one for you and yours.
For lack of anything else to write, what was the best gift given or received in your family? For example, did your mom give your dad something particularly thoughtful? Did your family do something for a less fortunate [...]

The Finer Things: the Road Not Taken

As a nod to a recent episode of The Office where The Finer Things Club was introduced, I present this poem. Even if you’ve read it before, I invite you to take a moment and enjoy it again.
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, [...]