In 2013 my desire is to continue to simplify my life. We do not need more.
We don’t need need new clothes, new decorations.
There is enough in the world to live sustainably for years.
How do you need to simplify this year?
PS- I am loving some new music at the moment.
The Rend Collective and Edge Kingsland’s new album. Love it!
It is so easy to be lured by the quick and easy, copy and paste. I am speaking to myself today. I am a part of a seven day journey on instagram called #7vignettes and it is so good to be taking photos of creative nooks in my house.
Here is my weblog #2 featuring my little Maximus.
Enjoy.
2013- be more original
So today is day 31, with a new month starting tomorrow. I had an amazing conversation with a wise lady in church last week and she said something that stuck with me.
She said I read your blog everyday Amanda, be encouraged there are many people who never comment, you wouldnt even know they are checking in but for me somedays it is even just one word that makes my day a little different.
So my 30 day challenge is a simple one.
Every day one word that inspires, encourages or challenges me.
Just one word can make a huge difference.
One word like
Yes-
yes to a date, yes to a opportunity, yes to a challenge, yes to something you might have previously said no to, yes to a proposal, yes to a friend, yes to someone who asks something unusual, yes.
What should you say yes to today, that often the answer has been no.
Its often your yes that will take you out of a place of inbetween.
Feeling dislocated? displaced? dissuaded?
Say yes
Maybe…
A
Place: woodman point
Poison: water
Favorite things: the fountain of youth.
Young hearts run free!
It amazes me how teenagers believe that they are so hard done by with their emotions and crazy perspectives on life.
I see such a different picture. The freedom to express themselves. No mortgage, full time jobs, expectations or responsibility.
To see them free, happy, in love, in lust, creatively pursuing their futures, expressively finding out their personalities. They have the world at their feet and spending my days with them inspires me towards the fountain of youth.
It’s not that I want to look younger, it’s that I want to live in the moment more grasping the opportunities and living less weighed down by responsibility.
Immaturity is not my goal, by free-thinking, fresh inspiration and loving with abandonment is so heartening.
Young hearts run free…I think it should be mandatory for all adults to spend a few days with some pure hearted, spontaneous teenagers, that cynic in you will shrink and the optimist will rise.
You will get to the place where you dream again and truly believe that all things are possible, even just for a moment.
Young hearts run free.
Let your heart roam a little to a land of possibility.
A
