Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. -Ancient Greek saying Also: Beauty, like supreme dominionIs but supported by opinion. – Benjamin Franklin Today my husband and I walked through my grandmother’s house for one of the last times. My grandmother was moved permanently to a nursing home last week, and the house is being emptied for […]
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I Seek Beauty
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” -Confucius As I wrote in Monday’s post, The Sowul Commandments, I am trying something new with the blog: a monthly focus for my mental energy, with the intent to inspire my writing. My focus for May will be BEAUTY. (If you need a reminder, see the new graphic […]
The Sowul Commandments
One of the things I found most inspiring in Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project was her list of “commandments” for how she wanted to live her life. I decided to make a list of my own, and share it with you. I’d love to hear if anyone else has created personal commandments, either formally or informally, […]
Cancer-Free… But Maybe Not
I’ve been planning this post for several weeks now: a celebratory post and a kick-off to a new blog series. The celebration? I’ve now officially been cancer-free for 15 years. I don’t have an exact date to mark because I didn’t know at the time that it would be the beginning of my remission, but […]
January “Accept” And Monthly Motto Check-In
SowulWord for 2014: ACCEPT I wish I had started choosing a word for myself years ago. I love, love, love my word for 2014. It has started to feel like a mantra. Whenever I feel frustrated about something, I call on ACCEPT, and it calms me right down. ACCEPT is shorthand for “Is there anything […]
The One SowulWord of 2014
In my recent review of Happier at Home, I mentioned that I loved Gretchen Rubin’s idea of choosing a word to define the year ahead. Since then, I’ve noticed that several of the bloggers I regularly follow are doing the same thing. I’m not sure if this is an idea that’s been around for awhile- […]