finding beauty in the everyday
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LOVE BOMB 2025
Because I can’t think of one word that encompasses all I wish for you, for us, in 2025, I will make up a new one. It is the color of bubblegum. Smells of mint, but also a little like fresh cut grass. This word is the sound of your sister’s laugh and feels like waking…
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DEAR WHITE SISTERS,
What the actual f***? What have you, and by you I mean we because now we are all in this rapidly sinking boat together, done? I know lecturing doesn’t work, it is definitely the quickest way to get me to tune out, but I am too angry to come up with another idea at the…
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Blueprint
Here we are. How has your paradigm shifted and where do you find yourself tonight, on the eve of Lunar New Year and just over one month into 2024? I find myself on my couch with COVID, my first ever official case, though I do think I had it in December of 2019, a few…
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wowza! that was a year.
That. Was. A. Year. How was your 2023? I am trying to sum it up and WILD is the only word that comes to mind. After a couple of years feeling stuck in the mud and as though the world seemed to have opened back up but I hadn’t, that mud began to dislodge in…
Smagik is Claire Sandrin’s personal blog of writing and photographs dedicated to finding beauty in the everyday. It covers everything from how to brand yourself as a creative, making a professional pivot in middle age, travels to Amsterdam, and recipes for grain free chocolate zucchini cake. Join me for the adventure that is this life!
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