finding beauty in the everyday
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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…
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Madam Secretary.
Last week I heard the title “Secretary of the Future” while listening to Marketplace on NPR and I fell in love with the idea. In a country with a Secretary of Defense and one of State, why not have one whose purpose it is to look forward to where current policies and strategies may lead? …
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Create, Curate, Choose.
What better thing to bring into existence and care for than the life one wishes to lead?! Obviously our parents brought us into existence originally and literally, but from the time we could form an opinion, speak, cultivate a talent, and dream, these little lives of ours have really been up to us to…
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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