Tag: journaling
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Deconstruction
“The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces.” -Aldo Leopold Before I say anything else… Happy New Year! I hope your holidays were grand. How exciting to be writing my very first post in 2025. I’m still quite busy with my downsizing, minimizing, upcycling (and so on) initiative, but I’ll be…
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The Chill
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” -William Blake It’s not really cold like this where I live, but the old house we reside in begs to differ. My fingers are frozen. This isn’t really about the cold though. I was inspired by a photograph I saw, of a tree, and this…
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Art of Simplicity
“The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity”Douglas Horton I’m sure the meaning behind Horton’s quote was a bit more profound than the way I’m interpreting it – but it’s perfect nonetheless. Simplicity is hard! Basically, for many of us I would imagine, simplicity means change. It’s like trying to eat healthy if you…
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Peep Show
I had to take the evening off from overthinking my Less is More adventure. Not that I haven’t been doing things… it’s more so that trying to think of images I can create, that relate to the subject, gets kind of boring. So, YES, I did go through that bin and manage to create a…
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Vintage Appeal
Antiques: Grandma had it. Mom threw it out. I bought it back. I used a black and white photograph for the basis of this illustration, and it’s said to be from an old photo shoot for Harper’s Bazaar… by photographer John Engstead. I wasn’t able to fact check this and verify it – so don’t…
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Less is More
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. -Joseph Brotherton A New Series is in the Works! I came up with the idea for this post several days ago, as well as the title, but this afternoon I had a hard time living up to it…
a sprinkle of faith 