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Joy in Childlike Simplicity (opens the original)
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This is the third and final installment of a September series on simplicity. I was delighted to find an old book still on my shelves (I’d done a LOT of book purging a few years ago). Thankfully, the oldie but goodie was there. It’s called Plain and Simple: A Woman’s Journey to the Amish, by Sue Bender. (She died last year at 91 years old.)I’m sure I first read it in the early 90s when I was a mom
Stop Shopping. (Wait, what?) (opens the original)
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Ann Patchett had an essay in the 2017 New York Times called My Year of No Shopping. I’ve been thinking about it because of last week’s thoughts on how shedding stuff can contribute to a sense of serenity and simplicity. What’s the best next step? Not letting the stuff in to begin with.Patchett writes that she got the idea from a friend. Soon after starting her No Shopping Year, Patchett bought a portable speaker — and felt “ridiculous.” It was t
So, About Simplicity - Shedding (opens the original)
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September on Cape Cod (opens the original)
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I’m home from a week out in the motherland, Massachusetts. I was out on Cape Cod with family and friends, in my last post you saw some of the cousins get-together.Today I will post a few more photos from Kingsbury Beach in Eastham, MA. My favorite time there is at low tide, when the tidal flats emerge and you can walk forever between sandbars. I started going to the Cape almost every year beginning when my second son was a baby and we were getting ready to move to Germany for a year. He’s 36 now
Extended Family Love (opens the original)
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No, it’s not Wednesday. It’s not even Thursday. I’ve been “On the road again” and am writing this from Eastham, MA, from where I’ve taken countless sunset photos. This is not one of my best, but I like the ideas it lit in this writer’s mind:<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Jr4q!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97414a16-ffde-4b58-bea5-8357ea620253_4313x
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