These days my heart has been so tender I can scarcely stand it. Over and over I find myself standing in someone else's shoes, my eyes stinging with tears (and my nose going all snuffly) with sympathy for their experience. And I'm not talking about depressing experiences - I mean joyful ones. I've been reading the blogs of wives and mothers for hours a day, my heart swelling with contentment and bliss reading about the simplest of things that are the most important: being with the ones you love. Living simply, sustainably, joyfully. Celebrating love.
I've also been yearning for simplicity lately. Constantly I want to pare things down, clean things out, rearrange spaces for greater simplicity of appearance and functionality of design. All I want to wear are simple dresses in calm colors made of natural fibers. Like these from
Toast:
Toast is really doing a number on me. Stainless steel picnic sets and woven cotton blankets, sigh sigh sigh.
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