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Mason Jar Ideas That Rock!
Mason jars are cheap (you can get 12 for 12 dollars!), durable and easy to re-use again and again. I would be lost in the kitchen without them: everything from dried fruit, nuts and lentils find their way into jars... green smoothies go in jars... soured homemade...
Warhol, Basquiat & The Power Of Collaboration In Your Life
Collaboration can be a way to synergize, expand, explore or just plain start making your endeavors- awful or otherwise- larger than they are now. Basquiat & Warhol famously collaborated, and although academics and critics like to say these are "less important"...
Master Your Mind… Don’t Let It Master You!
There is this awesome Buddhist quote from the gosho that has become my personal mantra: "Be the master of your mind, don't let your mind be your master." When you are on a roll in life and the good times are flowing, things seem effortless and seamless. But, if one...
Feng Shui To Keep Calm And Carry On!
Keep Calm And Carry On may be the most subtly addictive and utterly overused graphic of our time... however, it caught fire for a reason. We all want on some level to both be able to keep calm AND to carry on. Its easier to keep calm and check out and have a few...
Feng Shui 101: Little Tweaks Can Make Gorgeous Interior Design Totally Brilliant!
Great feng shui my way is ALWAYS great design, but great design is NOT always great feng shui. Little feng shui-based tweaks of gorgeous interior design can raise its basic feng shui quotient 100%, so I thought it would be fun today to look at some luscious home...
Can This Pyramid Help You Live Up To Your Potential In Life?!
Welcome to Abraham Maslow's expanded Hierarchy of Needs Pyramid. Maslow, a psychologist and professor, created this pyramid after years of study of mentally healthy subjects. His goal was to better understand what self-help gurus have co-opted as "peak states" of...
White Bean & Blood Orange Gluten & Grain Free Cake
Baking a cake with white beans is anything but ordinary. Once you have soaked and cooked your white beans, this rich, moist, nearly custardy cake takes 3 minutes to prepare and is unforgettably good! Seasonal blood oranges give this white bean cake some brightness in...
Feng Shui To Get Your Life Moving This Spring!
Feng Shui can help you to get energy moving in your life to bust yourself out of a rut. Its time to stop making excuses for why things are going so slowly and start making headway in all those areas where you have been stuck. Feng Shui honors the cycles of nature and...
Instagramming Natural Abundance
Abundance. If we think with the abundance of nature that is everywhere IF WE LOOK then our minds are in tune with abundant thoughts and things flow more freely in our mental, physical, emotional and material worlds! All pics are from my Instagram... where you can...