finding beauty in the everyday
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Zuma
There is nothing I love more than getting in my car and heading out of town with only the vaguest of plans and my camera…Except maybe hopping on public transportation in a new city and doing the same. Where will I eat? What will I see? What adventure awaits? Today it was Malibu and the…
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Magic Smagik
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. -Nelson Mandela I was having a hard time making a decision this week and always find it interesting when that happens. “What are you afraid of?” I asked myself, as my analytical/practical side duked it out with my intuition/heart/gut. “Maybe this is a time for you…
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Camp
I decided to send myself to camp for my 37th birthday. Not really camp, but sort of. “Are you going to have to sit in a circle naked?” my coworker asked last week, after I told him why I would be out of town for two weeks. “I don’t think so.” I said, though I…
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Feet aka Heart
“I have one foot out the door, but he doesn’t know where he’s going,” a co-worker told me last week, over a cup of coffee and a donut from the craft service table, as we stood, backs to a cold wind that whipped dust in our scarf and goggle covered faces, waiting for the director…
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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