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  • Morning Rituals

    Woke up feeling more in love with my life than usual, for no reason. No work for the next five days, warm temps in the forecast, the faint flutterings of creative ideas returning, and time for the morning rituals I love and miss when too busy working.  Post meditation and shower, I stand at my…

  • Soul Circles (or Mazes).

    Last night I leaned against the railing of the Belasco Theater’s mezzanine in DTLA and watched as two friends from high school played to a packed house, with their band “Minus the Bear”.  And, as I watched and listened, I was overwhelmed by the feeling that everyone I know, myself included, is nailing it. “It”…

  • Just Be and See

    After a crazy autumn and winter full of action, movement, and change, the past month has been eerily peaceful.  I’ve been sleeping well, have felt bizarrely uncreative, content to go to the semi full time part time job I manifested on a TV show with a crew I love working with, and have felt overall…

  • Roses

    I want to blame Venus Retrograde, work, a recent trip to Las Vegas, turning 38, the news, and Donald Trump for my recent lack of posts and words, but I know that isn’t fair.  So, instead, I trust that sometime soon I will sit in front of my computer and once again turn swimming thoughts…

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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