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Take a deep breath. quiet chicago is one person's adventure in finding calm in a hectic and loud city. These are weekly essays, questions and thoughts on clearing your head and finding calm in a society that rarely allows for it. Whether this is something you listen to in your daily meditation or a way to slow down and restart the calm and creativity in your life, today is a great day to take a deep breath and just be.
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what does your everyday look like? not just your day, those get filled with meetings running late out of the house, too many errands.. the usual. the things we unfortunately deal with every day but when you stop, pause, take a few breaths,, let go of the stress, the to-do list and everything else. you get a great night sleep.. then you wake up it's…
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what would an empty table mean in your life? an empty shelf, clear of distraction and clutter. is it inviting more and more things? or is the empty shelf enough as is. does it represent an emptiness that needs to be filled. or can it exist in peace as an empty shelf? is your coffee table also brimming with stacked magazines or papers, coasters and …
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beauty in the pause go, go, go, it never ends. the constant pursuit forward. of growth . of ambition. It's funny that time off always feels like such a foreign concept. that the idea of down time is something to feel guilty of, the way we relegate the most spoon fed activities like binging a show or the endless scrolling on our phones to fill in th…
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when money isn't important I will: travel more meet with more people spend more time with loved ones write more music play more live shows do more art bike ride more hike more workout more do more yoga spend more time meditating spend more time reading record more podcasts
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it is a beautiful quiet, the kind you would miss if not present. it takes a calm heart and a keen ear to hear the quiet that exists in the softly laden, reverently fallen snow, as it takes it's time to fall and find it's home just where it lay. the calm, the quiet and peace is everything it brought with it. that's the gift it brought you take a mom…
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Life is full of to-do lists -- go, go, go. There's often a lot of struggle just in coping with the mounting to-do list. This essay is a small exploration in what it means to simply be, not to always do. When we're not straddled by the burden of pursuit, we become something much more open and that leads to more smiling, more positive reflecting and …
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Is minimalism something we latch on to because it's an easy start and because it's an easy thing to control? This essay explores some of the thoughts around control and how too often are pursuit of minimalism -- of constant decluttering feels good because it's an easy win. It's an easy thing to control, that is, until that control gets taken away f…
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