Category: Meditations on Living
Posted on September 9, 2022
by Jan Peppler
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How the Seasons Affect our Relationship with Home
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Posted on August 19, 2022
by Jan Peppler
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Four years ago, I moved to Oklahoma. I had sold my home in Idaho a few months earlier and spent two months on the road touring the south, looking for my next place to live. Oklahoma was not even a remote possibility. That spring,… Continue Reading “A New Lease”
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Posted on July 31, 2022
by Jan Peppler
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Change happens and it often comes with some discomfort.
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Category: Meditations on Living, New Home/ FindingHomeTags: change, findinghome, GeorgeCarlin, home, lifechanges, moving, stuff, toomuchstuff, transitions, wellbeing, wellness
Posted on June 10, 2022
by Jan Peppler
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The more honest we are with ourselves, the more honest we can be with others. Compassion and kindness starts here.
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Category: Love & Belonging, Meditations on LivingTags: #findinghome, communication, compassion, emotions, health, healthandwellbeing, home, honesty, kindness, mentalhealth, wellbeing, wellness
Posted on June 2, 2022
by Jan Peppler
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Enough. Things are not okay.
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Posted on April 22, 2022
by Jan Peppler
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This year and moving forward, what are you doing to show our Mother that you love her?
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Category: Holidays, Landscape and Environment, Meditations on LivingTags: conservation, earth, EarthDay, environment, home, Mother, motherearth, preservation, recycle, recycling, wellbeing
Posted on April 15, 2022
by Jan Peppler
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Wendell Berry’s poetry is more salient this year than ever. In the midst of everything, participate in Spring. Practice resurrection.
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Posted on February 4, 2022
by Jan Peppler
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Just because you’re got at a job doesn’t mean you’re meant to do that job forever. Living a purposeful life where your work is a calling requires taking chances and starting over.
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Category: Love & Belonging, Meditations on Living, On the Topic of Home, WorkTags: apurposefullife, belonging, career, findinghome, fittingin, purposedrivenlife, startingover, thesoulscode, thewritinglife, vocation, Work, writing
Posted on January 29, 2022
by Jan Peppler
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Whether you’re a power cleaner, a compulsive cleaner, or a daily tidy-upper, cleaning house doesn’t have to be so complicated. But the best cleaning starts with two simple steps.
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Category: Meditations on Living, On the Topic of HomeTags: BillLemkephoto, BillLemkephotographer, buddhistwisdom, cleanhouse, cleaninghouse, cleanmind, findinghome, home, Lettinggo, radicalprayer, ThichNhatHanh
Posted on January 23, 2022
by Jan Peppler
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I discovered mold in my home last week, at first forcing me to let go of some things. But then I had a choice of what to keep and what to release. And choice is hard.
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Posted on January 15, 2022
by Jan Peppler
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I spent most of my life not feeling comfortable with how I look. The currently popular #10YearChallenge is helping me appreciate my face and find a sense of home in it.
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Category: Love & Belonging, Meditations on Living, On the Topic of HomeTags: 10yearchallenge, aging, beauty, facerecognition, finding, home, wellbeing, yourface, youth
Posted on January 6, 2022
by Jan Peppler
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Epiphany is more than a light in the sky or a sudden bright idea. That’s just the beginning.
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