Category: Love & Belonging
Posted on February 11, 2022
by Jan Peppler
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Inshallah, if God wills, I am writing to you from Italy: the land I fell in love with at the beginning of Covid-19. This time, I bring a piece of home with me.
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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 February 2, 2022
by Jan Peppler
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Finding Home In Our Beloved and The Three Lessons That Pie Baking Teaches Us: A guest post by Kate McDermott, author of The Art of the Pie.
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Category: Food, Leaving Home, Love & Belonging, On the Topic of Home, TravelTags: artofthepie, bakingpie, belonging, chancemeetings, findinghome, internationaltravel, ireland, katemcdermott, lessonsofpie, lifelessons, loveandbelonging, meetingstrangers
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 December 27, 2021
by Jan Peppler
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The best gifts are those that transcend a holiday. These are the ones that make us feel seen, heard, known, and celebrated.
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Posted on December 21, 2021
by Jan Peppler
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Celebrating the Winter Solstice because light helps us find the way home.
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Category: Holidays, Love & Belonging, Myth, On the Topic of HomeTags: Greek mythology, herecomesthesun, Holidays, japanesemythology, mythology, Solstice, solsticestories, storiesoflight, winterholidays, wintersolstice
Posted on October 31, 2021
by Jan Peppler
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Dia de los Muertos is a celebration of remembering. To love is to remember. To be remembered is to live. To be loved is to be home.
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Category: Death & Dying, Holidays, Love & Belonging, Meditations on LivingTags: allhollowseve, allsaintsday, altars, death, diadelosmuertos, diademuertos, family, friends, Holidays, lovedones, ofrendas
Posted on October 21, 2021
by Jan Peppler
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To be tethered is to have roots.
To be tethered is to know home.
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Category: community, featured, Love & Belonging, Meditations on Living, On the Topic of HomeTags: #findinghome, #love, community, connection, eternalsunshineofthespotlessmind, family, friendship, friendships, home, marriage, relationships, tetheredhearts, theuntetheredsoul, wellbeing
Posted on August 20, 2021
by Jan Peppler
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Living–really living–is a perpetual act of suicide.
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Posted on August 14, 2021
by Jan Peppler
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After a wedding, you are never really the same. Once we marry, a part of us is gone forever. Even as we embrace our new joined lives with joy, we need to honor what we leave behind.
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Posted on July 20, 2021
by Jan Peppler
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My own story of belonging is both different from and similar to Brené’ Brown’s. Since I didn’t fit in, I used my oddness to my advantage. That worked as a kid but hurt me as an adult.
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Category: Love & Belonging, ParentsTags: AbrahamMaslow, belonging, BreneBrown, childhood, creatingfamily, families, family, familyofheart, findinhome, home, Maslow
Posted on July 16, 2021
by Jan Peppler
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We all have a need to belong. In Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, belonging is smack in the middle of the pyramid, right there with love.
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