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 Γniversitesi 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? π«
Who thought destemming raisins could be so satisfying? π« 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
π΅ In between singing Material Girl π 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
- β€οΈ What’s the lay of your land? β€οΈ
- π Who recharges you? π
- π€ What little things make up the big things? π€
- π Do you hear your heart sing? π
- π What feast surrounds you every three months? π
- 𧑠What do you get to do like a boss? π§‘
- π What do you make with your hands? π
- β€οΈ Who is on your calendar? β€οΈ
- π How tech-dependent are you? π
- π€ Can you go off-season? π€
Parenting
Building Leadia
Life in Turkey
- What makes you overhungry?
- Turkish Beach culture
- Istanbul from Up High
- Weekend vibe on BaΔdat Street
- Istanbul road trip!π
- Su got her wish and was in the Philippines for her birthday! π₯³
- Legit burgers, brisket, and milk tea in Istanbul
- Being A Little Turkish
- Beautiful purple plants! Milk Thistle & Germander
- πΏ Nature walk over the Bayram weekend πΎ
Sustainable Living
- Imagining Our Dream Farm: Slow living with Friends
- Beautiful purple plants! Milk Thistle & Germander
- Guess the fruit πΈππ
- 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?