Category: Insights

I’d crawl up in your memory and die there if I knew for sure that I would never have to leave.  I’d braid my hair with yours and live with…

“Quality over quantity.” It’s such a cliche. So much so that I nearly didn’t include it in the A-Z of Simple Living. But it is just too important to ignore.…

“The universe is made of stories, not atoms.” — Muriel Rukeyser Our world needs good stories. Stories of life change encourage us, inspire us, and challenge us. They make this…

By Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, InstagramI had this friend in high school. Her parents had all these strict rules, rules that seemed crazy to me as…

‘The only thing I can’t stand is discomfort.’ ~Gloria Steinem By Leo Babauta Of all the skills I’ve learned in the past 7 years of changing my life, one skill…

If you often have a long list of to do’s unfinished at the end of the day, you might first want to read How to Get to the End of…

So, i’ve worked out that writing is not what I want to do with my life. I’ve decided to stick with the things that i’m good at. If you are…

Welcome to this week’s issue of Weekly Simplicity Tips. I updated my bio page this week. Anything I missed? I also updated the blog so it can be accessed by…

Editor’s Note: This is a post in the series, Simplicity in Action. If you’d like to submit your story of how simplicity has worked in your life, please read more here. You can…

I’m a big fan of music and have always had a large collection of CD albums and a large Hi-Fi system. About 10 years old I ditched my old Hi-Fi…

In thinking about and dissecting simplicity, I’ve come up with a few things that I know to be true. Simplicity has become a force in my life with benefits and…

Just about everything casts a shadow, and it’s not a bad thing. Shadows help us perceive a third dimension in two-dimensional images like paintings and photographs. The length of a…

A website with the main purpose of having people read content would best serve its readers with almost nothing else but what’s needed for the reading experience. Strip a site…

We all spend much of our lives in fantasies. I’m included in that observation: I fantasize about living a simple, minimalist life, I fantasize about traveling to foreign wonders, I…

You see them at the top of just about every post on this blog: professional, evocative photos that are not just illustrative or pretty, but are tied to a deeper…

Every Monday I post Real Life Minimalists, a profile of one of my readers in their own words. If you’d like to participate, click here for details. Today, I’m happy…

Every Monday I post Real Life Minimalists, a profile of one of my readers in their own words. If you’d like to participate, click here for details. This week, Michelle…

It’s easy to become an electro magnet for bullshit.  It’s easy to get weighed down with all of our work responsibilities, paying bills, juggling our to-do lists.  A lot of…

I’m not a religious man.   But I can see things that tell me I’m connected with all and all is connected with me.  And I love because it’s my…

{ via Pinterest – no original source found } “Do, or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda Starting something new is easy. 2nd January at the gym Salad…