My amazingly talented friend Jennifer  just returned from a trip to India. An art teacher and artist, she just posted this gorgeous Ganesh plus many other stunning drawings from India on her website. Check them out and enjoy. And if you happen to live in Connecticut and want an in-person jolt of inspiration, she’s giving…

Thanks to Fresh Living reader Mary Beth for sharing her inspiring morning routine: she wakes up around 4 a.m., starts the coffee, drinks a large bottle of room temperature water, feeds her cats, and enjoys a cup of hot coffee as she starts her computer. She then put son some meditative music, lights some incense…

The other night I wasn’t feeling so well, so I made myself stay home. But knowing the potential dangers of a cold, damp, Saturday day and evening spent alone, I wrote this note on my kitchen whiteboard. The idea was to remind myself that I have no moral obligation to host heaviness and misery, even…

The sparkling Janice Taylor of the Our Lady of Weight Loss blog feels strongly that skipping breakfast is not a good idea. She further believes that dehydration can cause irritability and headaches. To solve both problems (feed two birds with one seed, as it were), she offers a lovely, hydrating breakfast smoothie recipe: Ingredients: 1…

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