Tag: Slow Living

• 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.

  Nahya

  November 26, 2025

  Fall, Reflections

  Autumn, Fall, Fall in Canada, Finding Joy in Small Moments, Forest Walks, Grief and Healing, Journaling, Life, mindfulness, Nature, Nature Walks, November, Seasonal Reflection, Self CAre, Simple pleasures, Slow Living, Stillness, The art of noticing, writing

• A Victorian weekend: Bed & Breakfast and Antique Shopping

  

  A cozy November getaway at a Victorian Bed & Breakfast in Port Elgin, and getting lost in thought at an antique shop.

  Nahya

  November 20, 2025

  Canada, Fall, Reflections, Travel

  Antique Shopping, Antiques, Art, Autumn, B&B Stay, Bed and Breakfast, Fall Travel, Food, Lake Huron, November, Ontario Travel, Port Elgin, Road Trip Ideas, Sauble Beach, Saugeen Beach, Slow Living, Southwestern Ontario, Travel, Weekend Getaway

• Springtime Sabbatical

  

  “A spring breeze is blowingI’m bursting with laughterWishing for flowers” Matsuo Basho Losing my job at the beginning of Autumn felt fitting. As if on cue with the leaves falling outside, the ending of that job felt like a release. The winds of change were telling me that it was time for something new. Autumn…

  Nahya

  May 22, 2025

  Flowers & Garden, Life, Outdoors, Reflections, Spring

  2020 Unemployment, April, Career Advice, Cherry Blossoms, flowers, High Park, Life, Life lessons, Magnolia, May, Nature, Peace, Sabbatical, Sakura, Seasons Poetry, Slow Life, Slow Living, Spring, Toronto, Unemployment

• Peach Crumble

  

  It’s been three months since we moved into our new home. Although we are physically settled in, mentally I think I’m still processing this new life chapter. I want to savour it one little moment at a time, because once upon a time, owning a home felt like a faraway dream. A fulsome life update…

  Nahya

  August 25, 2024

  Baking, Recipes

  August, Baking, Coastal Life, End of Summer, New Chapter, New Home, Peach Crisp, Peach Crumble, Peaches, Recipe, Slow Lifestyle, Slow Living, Summer

• An Unhurried Holiday Season

  

  As December begins, I am choosing to be intentional about how I want this season to feel for us. If I can use one word to describe our overall approach to Christmas this year, I would choose: unhurried. Unhurried for social events. Unhurried for gifts. Intentional in connecting. Intentional in just being. After the last…

  Nahya

  December 1, 2022

  Reflections, Winter

  Candlelight, Christmas, Connection, December, Family, Friends, Gathering, Holiday Season, Holidays, Slow Life, Slow Living, Unhurried, Wellness