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Finding Grit

I'm many things but gritty isn't the word that comes to mind. Last weekend I ran the 10K - Beat the Blerge I took a chance and said yes...

Hard Boiled Egg Chocolate Pudding

If you didn't already know, I make weird/healthy dishes all the time. Bean brownies are a normal food. Flaxseed bread- normal. This...

Take a Risk

Do I take risks? What kind of risk? Social? Emotional? Physical? Mental? Spiritual? Until I wrote those categories, I'm not sure that...

"What If Everyone You Met Was Your Teacher?"

When we were helping facilitate Ayurvedic retreats at Harmony Hill, our retreat leader, Patty W., shared a philosophy I love—and try to...

Tend What Matters

"If I don't walk the land, I miss things --the chance to head off a disease or to cultivate at just the right moment to ensure a...

In Search of a Juneberry

"The ripe fruit of a juneberry is dark purplish, almost tricking you into thinking it’s a highbush blueberry, but it’s not. Rather,...

4 Steps to a Soap Scum Free Shower

Is there such a thing? Yup and it's delightfully easy. Does anyone look forward to cleaning soap scum off shower? No matter how bored...

Wabi-Sabi the Art of Being

November 1st begins Wabi-Sabi Season. Each moment has beauty within...if we know how to see

Good Stewards

Less is more. Is it? Not always but in a world of overconsumption more is essential. Is the whole world overconsuming? Is it just a...

Sea Lions - One flipper up

What would you think if you saw a sea lion floating on one side with a flipper in the air? A sea lion in distress? That's what we...

One thing leads to another...

Have you ever heard of the broken window Theory? A few years ago, I was doing a green cleaning talk for the City of Fed Way. Reece from...

Inspired Clutter Clearing

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was greater than the risk it took to bloom." Anais Nin Start Kindly. Say nice...

Poems that Wake You Up

The Poet Pablo Neruda is a new discovery for me. This poem went right to my heart, like any good poem does. Poems wake us up. What's...

Habits are Seeds

Habits are like seeds. If you can grow a plant...you can grow a new habit. Habits have behave like plants. You give them care, give...

4 Habits of Joy and the Beginning

At the end of December, the day my mom went back home to Colorado, I was sad. Of course, I was going to miss her. But this feeling was...

The habit poem

The first time I read this I knew. Do you ever have that? You read or see something and wham!, it goes straight into your heart. ...

Beginning again...

Yesterday I was at Fred Meyer's. Popping into a grocery store this time of year is fun to watch. How things shift. This...

With Kindred Spirits

Good morning, How are you? I was just listening to the wind and finishing up my morning writing. Whenever I write, you almost always...

Cleaning out the Bones- Unconventional Clutter Clearing

Cleaning is ordinary...until you decide it's poetry...and then it becomes extraordinary We do what we know. I coach, teach clutter...

Why uncluttering is my go to mental health tool

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” — Buddha Yesterday, I did a reboot....

Energy EFT Master Practitioner

BIG +10 congratulations to Denise Frakes for completing Energy EFT Master Practitioner with GoE trainer Silvia Hartmann!

Energy EFT Master Practitioner Course Review by Denise Frakes

Denise Frakes writes: "This course should be a requirement for everyone. It should be taught right along with maths and English. A basic understanding of how we are wired would sure make life easier."