Tag: Journaling
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Fall in love with stillness
November’s quiet hush invites us to slow down and notice the small things that carry magic. This post is a love letter to stillness and the grounding beauty found in everyday life.
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Scheduling slow time when you’re the busiest
“The best time to relax is when you don’t have time for it”. Sydney J. Harris September has been the busiest I have ever been, in the most beautiful of ways. This month began on the beaches of Southern France, and will end in the mountains of Alberta. In between, I’ve planned and hosted…
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A time traveling journal
I recently re-read some old entries in my lilac coloured journal that I filled in 2020, and it made me realize something I never considered about journaling. Journals are like a time travel machine. Made of paper, ink, curves and lines of alphabets, journals craft the contents that lived in your heart at a specific…
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Creating light during the January Gloom
I can’t remember the last time I saw the sun. The feeling of sunlight on my face suddenly feels so foreign to me. We’re entering the sixth week of consecutive gloomy grey skies here in Toronto (and the southern Ontario region in general). Aside from very brief pockets of sunshine here and there, we haven’t…
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Sunrises in Muskoka
I’ve been lucky to spend some pretty memorable times in Muskoka this past year, and it just so happens that I’ve always gone up there during the change of seasons. I mark my moments up there as a symbolic place in time when the physical changes in nature was matching the changes and shifts I…
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Reflections from my Birthday Season
My birthday season was a memorable one this year. I had a two week vacation and had all the time I needed to rest, recharge and get inspired. We celebrated our wedding anniversary at our camping getaway, I spent time with my family and friends, and I went on dates with myself to the spa…
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Where I’ve been and how I’m doing
It has been four months since I last published a blog post here. I feel awkward picking up from where I’ve left off, and I’ve re-written the start of this paragraph at least six times. At one point, I wondered if I should even bother. Perhaps my prolonged absence from blogging is a sign that…
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Being Present During a Busy Time
The start of this year has kept us away from our usual Winter ritual of binge-watching / snacking / cocooning. I mean, that’s still happening (currently Netlfixing Schitt’s Creek), only in much smaller frequencies than we’ve been known to do. For starters, I’ve been taking a Product Management course. Just before the Holidays, I felt…
My Turquoise Bag 