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Drifting in a Sea of Light: DIY Candleholder
Hello again friends. This post was a fun project to put together, and one I’ve been wanting to do since I found this little treasure late last summer on a local beach. It’s no secret that I love candle light. I’m writing this post in the soft glow of about a dozen of them. So…
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Moving Day: How to Find the Items You will Actually Like for Your Home & Knowing Yourself Better for It
I just moved about two weeks ago. It was a stressful move, but also a heroic effort. My roommate and I moved two apartments worth of furniture in ten hours. I was a little sore the next day, but otherwise the move went smoothly. I didn’t have a lot of furniture. This helped. But this…
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Home Ec: Why Don’t Schools Teach How to Run a Household?
I’m a social worker, and the population I work with are chronically homeless. This means they’ve been homeless for 5 years or longer. Before I worked with this population, I viewed them mostly as lost causes. They seemed to me, so mentally ill, that there wasn’t anyway for them to come back. Or so drug…
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Ambient Lighting: How to Set a Relaxing Tone in Your Home & Yourself
As I’ve written in a previous article, I burn a lot of candles. I’m not sure why I started using them as a lighting source. It may stem from my teen years, and how I remember looking back at the candle I lit that I used in the love spell I cast. It was surrounded…
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Candle Burning for Beginners: There’s More to It Than You Think
In my last post I wrote about how candles helped to teach me how to build relationships. Also nurture them by accepting help and learning to collaborate. Something our individualist culture doesn’t foster or value. I also wrote about some of the draw backs to burning certain types of candles, like paraffin and scented. In…