finding beauty in the everyday
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Because, Daaang.
Because my peonies are off the hook, may they bring you some visual joy. You can admire your own, I recommend it, if you live near a Trader Joe’s. They get more beautiful every day. Happy Wednesday!
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When the world trips over itself to make you smile.
Do you ever feel like the world is tripping over itself to show you its beauty, make you laugh, excite you, nourish you, and wake you up, but that, until you’re ready, open, present, and willing, the effort goes unnoticed? My sister recommends the perfect book that is exactly what I need to read, this…
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Living the Dream
I’m sitting in Happy Girl Kitchen in Pacific Grove, California, because it’s as close as I can get to my kitchen at the moment. Three weeks into my four week stay and all I want is tea, toast, to write, and listen to music on Saturday mornings and, though some of that is possible from…
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Peace
-The Peace of Wild Things- When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great…
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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