Everydays
Writings to quiet the mind and call forth the riches of everyday life.
Hopefully these also help you find your clarity.
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- Life in Turkey
- Sustainable Living
- Slow Travel
- Parenting
- Startup Life
- Food
- Rhythm
What makes you overhungry?
For the first time ever she was not happy to see us. She’d already bargained for another night at the beach with her Aunt and we said yes. We dropped by to see her just the same, and she didn’t even want to…
What expertise lets you serve at your highest capacity and joy?
Congratulations my love @korayerimez on finally claiming your Food Engineering diploma, over two decades later! It was wonderful visiting Ege Üniversitesi with you and seeing you light up like a college schoolboy, remembering the stories that led you to being our beloved crazy…
What’s Beyond 43
It’s been 3 months since I shared that visioning post of our life on a farm. From Albania we plucked out that dream and went on an intense rollercoaster ride to land it on Bicol, the homeland of my father. Intensive research (again)…
Imagining Our Dream Farm: Slow living with Friends
It’s Sunday and we’re on relax mode, watching videos on Albanian Village Life. Inspired by this family in the rural mountainside, we again imagine our own dream farm, allowing ourselves to say things out loud: I see a nice bungalow home giving that feeling…
Who thought destemming raisins could be so satisfying?
Who thought destemming raisins could be so satisfying? Annem (mother in Turkish) likes to give us clothbags full of homemade dried fruits and leaves. Once she gave us apples she harvested from her garden and dried over the fireplace–these lasted well over a…
I’m A Natural Girl
In between singing Material Girl Su: Mom, what does Material Girl mean? Me: It means you like Material things like this (paper) and this (markers) and this (scissors). Su: Am I a Material Girl? Me: Yes, but you also like nature, parks and trees, right?…
“If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it. Blame yourself. You’re not enough of a poet to call forth its riches.”
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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Everyday Life
- What makes you overhungry?
- What expertise lets you serve at your highest capacity and joy?
- What’s Beyond 43
- Who thought destemming raisins could be so satisfying?
- I’m A Natural Girl
- What makes you smile from ear to ear?
- Time to touch grass!
- Spring sky
- Our first attempt at Mrs. Fields style cookies!
- Do you See fun and joy?
Parenting
Building Leadia
- Imagining Our Dream Farm: Slow living with Friends
- What keeps you walking?
- What if: Authentic travel , transformational retreat, and business conference️️ in one festival?
- Leadia is graduating! HUG Studios Demo Day
- Hope you can join us later, friends! 11pm Mnl time
- What is Island Life Plus?
- Building LEADIA: What is Community?
- Alaya on Year 3: Dark Night
- Building the Entrepreneur and Tech Hubs of Alaya
- I went Digital Nomad for a week++ in Bali
Slow Travel
- Turning Portuguese: Learning the Language
- Worldschooling in the Philippines in 2023
- What is Island Life Plus?
- Day 2 in Bali: Visiting the Green Village (2017)
- Battle of the Beaches: Bali
- I went Digital Nomad for a week++ in Bali
- National Museum’s Nature Walk in Baler on May 3-6
- Bahay Kalipay – a house of healing
- back to tagaytay favorites– bawais and chateau hestia
- Escape to this Tagaytay mountain vacation house
Life in Turkey
- What makes you overhungry?
- Turkish Beach culture
- Istanbul from Up High
- Weekend vibe on Bağdat Street
- Istanbul road trip!
- Su got her wish and was in the Philippines for her birthday!
- Legit burgers, brisket, and milk tea in Istanbul
- Being A Little Turkish
- Beautiful purple plants! Milk Thistle & Germander
- Nature walk over the Bayram weekend
Sustainable Living
- Imagining Our Dream Farm: Slow living with Friends
- Beautiful purple plants! Milk Thistle & Germander
- Guess the fruit
- What is Island Life Plus?
- Building LEADIA: What is Community?
- Off to Bali to check out creative communities on the island! (2017)
- Remembering the expansive ricefields of Bali (2017)
- 1st stop in Bali: Green School (2017)
- Day 2 in Bali: Visiting the Green Village (2017)
- Do you cultivate your inner garden to become more balanced and wholehearted?