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Our occasional “Brain Break Inspiring Wedding Video” series continues today with a vid that has me writing this through the happiest of tears.  My colleague Dena (go visit her on our sister blog Idol Chatter for all things awesomely pop-culture-y) discovered it, and I plan on watching it at least 8 more times this afternoon. …

Starfish! Or sea star!–as a naturalist corrected me yesterday. These guys are everywhere here. Purple starfish. Really there’s not much more magical. Except standing still and watching how sloooooooowly they move and getting inspired to slow things down myself. Slowing down. Slowing down. So much can happen when we just slow. It. Down. I suggest…

I spoke this week to a writer and psychotherapist who uses photography in her counseling work.  In the course of our chat about an upcoming Beliefnet feature she’s going to write (yay!), she said this: “We take photos to mark those moments when our heart has paused to feel.” With that beautiful thought in mind,…

“Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.” –Alan Cohen What can you do today to learn the joy lesson?  If you need more inspiration, check out our collection of uplifting quotes about joy.

Reader Gwendolyn asked a great question in a recent comment: How do you feel about gray hair, and how do you act on those feelings?  For me, I have a deep-seated phobia of embarking on a hair-coloring regimen because it means adopting a permanent lifestyle of touch-ups and re-colors.  Something about that obligatory every-3-months pattern…

This is an image from my vacation–in lieu of heavy posting here you’ll be seeing a few of these this week. It’s of a sound in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Canada–through a round window in a little showering hut. Yeah, I know. Amazing. I feel like this captures something about how travel…

Every life transition has its “zero hour,” that moment when everything that came before it is different from everything that comes after.  We hit that moment this weekend when the moving truck piled with our boxes pulled away from one house and into another. The whole day was a blur of movement, decision-making (where should…

On Friday, we achieved an exciting milestone–100 Fresh Morning posts!  What began as an experiment to see if we could find tidbits, images, recipes, quotes, and ideas to help you (and ourselves) start our day with joy and purpose has become a full-fledged institution here on Fresh Living, and we’re grateful to be at this…

Today I write this post from my desk, in my home of 9 years.  On Monday, I will write from my desk, in my home of 48 hours.  Despite all of my attempts to stay sane through my move, there’s something about that fact that just doesn’t compute in my brain.  Why?  Because change is…

  In a lot of yoga circles, eating meat is akin to peeing on the sofa or hitting on a friend’s boyfriend. It’s just not done–at least publicly. Which is why it’s so amazing that the cool yogini Sadie Nardini “came out” this week on her Huffington Post blog as a meat eater. She speaks out against…
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