378: Choose to Compost Your Past: How the Arrival of the Spring Season is a Metaphor for Life
"Composting what was into what will be." Mother Nature and the cycle of seasons provide endless life lessons and nourishing guidance if we are wise enough to heed her teachings. More specifically, spr...
3 Apr 202447min
377: The Slow Productivity Approach that will Elevate the Quality of Your Entire Life, as taught by Cal Newport
Author and professor of computer science at Georgetown University Cal Newport's latest book Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment without Burnout details exactly how and where in our daily...
20 Mar 20241h 4min
376: Wise Investments: Understand the Difference between a Good Value and a Good Deal
The savviness of wise money management encompasses many factors, but one is an approach often overlooked or dismissed: Understanding the difference between a Good Value versus a Good Deal. Here in the...
6 Mar 202453min
375: How to Become a More Skilled Participant in the Living of Our Life
The concluding note to readers that author, yoga and meditation instructor Deborah Adele shares in her book Yamas & Niyamas: Exploring Yoga's Ethical Practice includes the wish that they become more s...
21 Feb 202439min
374: What I Have Learned in French Class, So Far - part sept (7)
Bonjour à tous ! Just last week, I concluded FR 105 with Washington DC's Alliance de Français, a Zoom/online course that met twice a week, two hours each time since just after Thanksgiving. You may re...
7 Feb 20241h 4min
373: How to Nourish Your Creative Being: Cultivate An Artistic Hearth & Home
"Part of art making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done, over and over—and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful . . . a life li...
17 Jan 202456min
372: Simple Rituals to Enhance the Everyday and the 5 Characteristics of Simply Luxurious Rituals
We explore the topic of rituals frequently here on TSLL (explore all of the posts and episodes shared thus far here), and initially it may seem redundant to do so again in today's episode/post, but as...
3 Jan 202458min
371: Savoring A Quiet Christmas — Simple, Yet Significant
Whether or not snow has fallen come December, the warmth and cheer of good tidings appearing about town, the neighbors, in the shops and arriving in the mail by way of the annual Christmas cards sent ...
20 Des 202346min
