Hello Dear Readers & happy Friday! It’s been a bit quiet around here this week because I am preparing for vacation. Yahoo! I leave tomorrow morning and will be returning late next week. You will see a couple of guest posts during that time (if I can properly set that up in WordPress) and a guest post from me will be posted over at a friend’s blog. So keep your eyes open for those things, but my apologies in advance as I will not be replying to comments or emails because…
I plan to be completely disconnected during my trip. That means no Blackberry, Twitter, Facebook, Web, Foursquare, and so on. I need a break from “virtual reality”, my friends. 😉 In fact, we all do from time to time!
That said, let’s move on to this week’s Carousel. I’ve got some very sweet goodies to share with you this week.
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Every Friday, I post my favourite links, posts, & resources from around the Web. Expect to learn, grow, & be inspired.
1. Coming across hurting people: Every now & again, I come across a piece that touches me in a deep, profound way. Usually the piece is not too long, but it is always powerful and tugs at my heart strings in a soft, yet poignant way.
This blog post is one of those pieces. If you read nothing else from this week’s Carousel, read this.
2. Eco-Bootcamp: The sustainable, savvy heroines over at Your Daily Thread have kicked off a month long going green boot camp in honor of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day on April 22nd. Their goal is to turn Eco-zeros, to Eco-heroes even if you’ve never recycled before.
3. Soda: A Sin We Sip Instead of Smoke? and Junk food ‘as addictive as heroin and smoking’: I am extremely passionate about healthy living & lifestyles. My passion has been really intense lately as I become increasingly aware of the disturbing truths about modern “food”.
I view the recent elimination of sugary beverages (soda) from school systems as a huge triumph. I look forward to the continuation of this important trend. Education and awareness is crucial.
4. create luck, embrace chance & tune in to your serendipity: What is it about lucky people? Have they all got horseshoes tucked into their backsides? 🙂 Amber doesn’t think so & neither do I.
5. 7 Sources of Deep Clutter: Some great advice about how to eliminate the “shoulds, have-tos, and people-pleasing” bad habits that are cluttering your life & soul.
(And as a side note, the Good Life Zen blog is really fantastic. Each post is insightful, inspirational, and well-written.)
6. Remaining Calm in Stressful Situations: I like this post because it teaches us something that we can all benefit from (remaining calm) but I love it because it reminds us of something even more important — that mental/emotional stress does cause physical illness.
7. 40 Belief-Shaking Remarks From a Ruthless Nonconformist: Ah, yes! We can always count on Friedrich Nietzsche to obliterate the complacent, feel-good beliefs that we hold about ourselves. This collection of quotes will stir your pot and get your wheels spinning.
8. The Top 10 Online Habits That Make My Life Simpler: If you’re like me—meaning you spend several hours a day online—then you know that the Web can be the biggest time-vacuum known to man (if you let it). This post lists lots of simple yet effective ways that will help you make the most of your precious time spent online.
9. Why You Should Be More Decisive: Truth: I am an extremely indecisive woman by nature. Those closest to me will tell you this.
I have trouble deciding upon the simplest of things—which restaurant to visit, which shirt to wear, which road to take, whether or not to put salt on my food, which movie to watch, and so on. Well, a couple of years ago I found an ingenious method for dealing with this problem: I started flipping a coin! Yes, that’s my secret.
While the coin-flipping model has worked well for me, I still really enjoyed this post. It teaches us why some people have so much trouble being decisive in today’s world and why it is really important that we become more decisive overall. Perhaps I should stop relying so heavily on the coin and start aiming to be more decisive myself…
10. How To Fund Your Travels With Creativity: I have several friends who are currently living outside of the United States, seeing the world, gaining incredible life experience, and living the lives of their dreams. If you want to know how 95% of them are doing it, read this post. It will tell you exactly what they’re doing and how you can do it too.
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That’s it for this week. I’ll see you all on the other side.
In love & light,
Dena
You look awesome! I don’t know about other new moms, but I love seeing photos of new moms! Not to compare, just to feel kinship almost: ) We may be tired, poochy, a bit disheveled…but we are also super amazing and so hard working!
Roman takes great pictures btw. Always looking at the camera with the cutest expressions: )
Thank you! It is so nice to have other mamas to relate to — whether about sleeplessness, baby weight, or whatever. There is definitely a kinship among us and I am so grateful for it! xo
you look beautiful, my love.
i love that you can get out in the fresh air and enjoy the day with your little guy, no matter how tired you feel.
your hair looks lighter? looks nice! <3
thank you, darling! we always, always, always make time for adventures. since roman was born my new motto has become “i’ll sleep when i’m dead.” i’ve always been really attached to my sleep — but being a mama has changed that. i miss it terribly but i refuse to sleep through one minute of the magic. <3
You are beautiful.
Love you. xo
How old is your little man? He looks about the same age as my little guy. I feel the same exact way mama! I hate pictures of me because i always look or at least feel a mess but you aren’t! You are beautiful! and so is your gorgeous little family!
My 2 owls
thank you, dear! i think i left this in a comment on your blog, but roman will be 12 weeks on tuesday. yes — they are very close. <3
I do the same thing with pictures of myself, overanalyzing and not wanting to post them! I’m so glad that you decided to include these, these photos of you and Roman are so gorgeous and peaceful and someday when he is much much bigger you will treasure having them so much!