I’ve avoided it so far, but I think the time has come to weigh in on the KonMari Controversy about books. In case you’re wondering what the heck that is, I found this article a fairly balanced and genuine reaction that isn’t knee-jerk about books in the way the NRA is about guns. Marie Kondo, …
Tag: minimalism
The Practice of Asking “Why?”
The working title of this post was The Practice of Letting It Go. Then it started: Perhaps the title of this post should have been “The Practice of Giving Yourself Permission. I was looking at the human characteristic of doing things we really don’t want to because there’s some imaginary (and usually arbitrary) rule getting …
Guest Blog Post: Giving Up Your Darlings
”Dear intention at home, I love notebooks. Recently I was getting ready to go on a trip, and I was having a very hard time trying to figure out what notebook to take with me. I didn't want to take them all, because it would be too much and I would feel silly, but at …
The Minimalist Guide to Travel Sanity
I’ve been a frequent traveler for a few years now, but since last October things have been ramping up a bit as I try to make my presenting and teaching into a significant income stream. One thing I’m very wary of is self-care while on the road. A couple of years back I had quite a burnout …
A Simple Love
“Love should be as simple as possible-but no simpler.” – Albert Einstein (sort of, not really) I’m likely to make a couple of my friends relatively uncomfortable with this post, for which I apologize, since they are both fairly introverted. Out of respect for that, I’ll keep them anonymous…but they recently did something so profoundly …
Fast Times
I’d like to invite you to live fast this week. “Whoo hoo!” you say. “About time we got some good partying goin’ on!” And in fact, there are going to be a lot of parties this week. In the U.S.A. it’s Thanksgiving weekend, a time when we putatively give thanks for the bounty of our …