home winter blues

winter blues, palmetto style

I thought I would do a feature each week during the winter for winter blues, Palmetto style.  Even though we don’t have many cold and blustery days, we do occasionally have cold-ish and gloomy-ish days.  Here’s to redefining winter blues, and finding some happy and beauty in the ‘blues’. Happy winter. I couldn’t resist throwing in…

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growing myself series

a sanctuary

My goal is to be a sanctuary for others: a person who will listen without judgment; welcome without question; accept without hesitation; love without condition; and share laughter and joy, on good days and bad. With everyone. Not just those who voted like me. Not just those who look like me, or believe like me,…

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growing myself home

a minimal maximal bohemian

Justina Blakeney, in her inspirational and beautiful book, The New Bohemians, states that, “Decorating is about feeling free, having fun rejecting traditional notions about what goes with what (especially that everything in a room has to match), and getting a little bit wild…hand-me-downs, Craigslist, and thrift-shop finds” (p. 11). She breaks down the new bohemians…

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gardening growing myself

low hanging fruit

Sometimes I have a tendency to take simple problems and make them complex.  Or try to change the world with huge undertakings, when I could have opted to take baby steps and made more progress.  I am going to try to focus on the low-hanging fruit this year, trying to work smarter, not harder.  Trying…

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