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22 Feb

Don’t Deny Yourself – Enjoy Life!

Don't Deny Yourself with a Minimalist Simple Vegan Life

Image: anankkml People sometimes question my minimalist simple living ideas.  They say that ‘you only live once, you gotta enjoy it’.  It is true.  There is no reason go to through life denying yourself. I couldn’t agree more.  Don’t deny yourself for a minimalist, simple living, vegan, home schooling, frugal spending life! So the idea [...]

21 Feb

Simple Compassion – Origin Coffee

origin coffee

Photo Credit I found this super cool charity on twitter - Origin Coffee.  It is a group of amazing intentional people that are committed to making a difference.  They have a coffee house in California where they volunteer their time and send all profits overseas to help fight sex trafficking.  The whole place is run on volunteer [...]

20 Feb

Foundational Secret to Success

coffee abundance principle

Image: Paul Besides coffee being a secret to success I want to talk about an amazing and foundational idea that I read in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People that might have Hindu roots (not sure where it originates).  This idea is super important for minimalist living or simple living (whichever you want to [...]

19 Feb

Featured Blogs Page Created

Hey!  I have been featuring blogs for a while on Sundays and wanted to collect a bunch of them (as well as other people I follow) into a proper list for you.  I follow blogs on Simple Living, a Minimalist Lifestyle, Travel, and other just great people. Here it is Simple Living Blogs Enjoy!

17 Feb

Just Focus! Parenting-Teaching-Personality-ADD-Questions

Lily reading - home school reading - grade 2 -- 8 year old

Pulled this beautiful pic of my studious daughter from a few weeks ago. Parenting is hard.  With home school I have no idea where the parenting and teaching line is.  One thing I know is that motivating my kids and getting them to work is WAY harder than actually teaching them concepts.  I am sure [...]

16 Feb

Super Simple Suppers – Dahl Soup

Super Simple Suppers -- Dahl Soup

Ready for another simple vegan recipe? Ready to travel again?  Last week was a Thai curry that was amazing.  This week we are headed to India for an amazing vegan (full meal) soup.  Really, this is a version of lentil soup, but Dahl is a much more exciting name. My kids actually eat this as well. [...]

15 Feb

A Life Work

Rosetta_Stone photo by Hans Hillewaert

Photo credit I have trouble thinking sometimes that life is something that I can figure out. With my simple living and minimalist ideals I get confused sometimes and think I can. Like there is some trick to it – life, parenting, money, etc –  that with enough thought, books, and effort I can figure out. [...]

14 Feb

Simple Compassion — Compassion International

Compassion International Picture

A while back I talked about how our family sponsors 2 kids through World Vision.  I think giving back is a huge part of minimalist simple living.  I also wanted to highlight another organization that is very similar – Compassion International. (picture source) Here is a video of what they do: Here is the link. [...]

13 Feb

Lovin With No Stuff-in

Lorilee with dreads -- by Bryon Lippincott Photography

So we played around with pictures last night.  The dreads are still really new frizzy.  They are supposed to look better in a few months.   Tomorrow is the big day of Love!  Valentines day!  The day started as a day to honor one or more Christian martyrs and is now a day to spend [...]

12 Feb

Art of Backpacking – Way Fun Blog!

Art of Backpacking Featured Blog Picture -- Photo Credit Art of Backpacking

Hi, Welcome to the featured blog spot this week on Loving Simple Living.  I feature blogs that I love and I think my readers (you) would benefit from. Some are minimalist, some are travel, some are vegan cooking… you get the idea So I found Art of Backpacking a few weeks ago on the Google Currents [...]

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