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Spiritual Sunday: A Collection

March 14, 10 //
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Once upon a time I lived in a basement rented to me by a couple who collected lions.  I’ve always liked collections.  I collected treasure trolls for a while when I was in middle school.  If you consider a collection stuff you tend to accumulate but not actually use, then I guess I collect cookbooks, really cute scrapbooking stuff (yep, I’m one of those people who HAS to have those cute stickers, and then I “save” them) and all the issues of the magazines I subscribe to that have arrived since my daughter was born.

Well, thanks to Dani of Positively Present (found via this post by Kind Over Matter) I now have a much more useful collection.  Dani has put together a list of 50+ Articles You Should Read Now.   Each article is “related to positivity and living a happier, more present life.”  Now that I’m trying to make time to read more, I’m really looking forward to diving into this list.  I’m sure it’ll enrich my mind and life a little better than the gory zombie manga I read during my daughters nap today, hehe.  :)  Gotta love zombies.

Spiritual Sunday: Need A Lift?

March 7, 10 //
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~image by Laura Berger Download it here at Feed Your Soul~

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Hope that helped!  Have a refreshing Sunday and a fantastic week ahead!

Spiritual Sunday: Drop Some Keys

February 13, 10 //
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I can’t remember who actually tweeted this, unfortunately, but thanks to one of my great Twitter buddies I found this post by Chris Guillibeau.  It’s called The Small Man Builds Cages For Everyone.  To quote Chris:

Most of us spend a lot of time building cages for people. This is accomplished by striving to make people small, so that we small men can feel bigger. Cage-building is protecting yourself and your interests, making yourself look good, and discouraging good ideas because you weren’t the one to come up with them.

His post encourages us to spend more time “dropping keys” or helping others learn what we know.

What a wonderful idea.  I know that many of the blogs I enjoy, in fact most of my daily reads, are the ones where an incredibly talented person, or group of people, is not just showing me their latest fantastic creation, but also showing me how to make what they’ve made.  Bakerella, Pioneer Woman, Thrifty Decor Chick, Make It and Love It, Little Birdie Secrets… fantastic tutorials, recipes etc.  All “keys” dropped to help me make many parts of my daily life look and taste great.  There are so so many more I could mention.  Women and men taking time out of their lives to empower me and many others, by just sharing the tips and tricks they’ve learned and love.

Thanks to all the bloggers and tweeters I follow and have yet to follow for these wonderful keys!

Spiritual Sunday

February 6, 10 //
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image by star of the seaa on Flickr

image by star of the seaa on Flickr

Thanks to a tweet by Modish Blog I found this great little source of inspiration.  It’s a great post about the realization that you are the only thing keeping yourself from doing the things that interest you.  For anyone who has ever seen something amazing and thought, “oh, I could NEVER do that,” head over to Modish to see if you can relate.  I know I can!

image from Cox & Cox via Sweet Tidings

image from Cox & Cox via Sweet Tidings

Need a dose of Happy to prepare you for the week ahead?  Head over to Sweet Tidings and check out her “Sugar, Sugar” post.

Here are two fantastic (as always) sources of visual inspiration from Kind Over Matter:

image by Prettyfnmess via Kind Over Matter

image by Prettyfnmess via Kind Over Matter

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image by au tum n via Kind Over Matter

image by au tum n via Kind Over Matter

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And, to get you through the week, here are some great printable quote cards from Perfect Sentiment:

image via Perfect Sentiment

image via Perfect Sentiment