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Jerry Member	# Posted: 8 Feb 2011 13:48 Reply Do you feel like you want to cultivate slowness - for example, use a broom instead of a noisy vacuum? Do you have a favorite coffee mug that helps you start the day off on the right foot? Do you feel a sense of satisfaction by growing your own food and making things instead of buying them? Do you enjoy company but also need a small space where you can find solitude, silence and enjoy meditation? Can you tolerate and cultivate inperfection as a naturally occuring life process? These and other concepts of finding beauty and peace in ordinary things are defined by the Japanese philosophy of Wabi-Sabi. There is a great article on the concept of Wabi-Sabi in the February/March 2011 issue of MOTHER EARTH NEWS.

bobrok Member	# Posted: 8 Feb 2011 15:42 Reply Jerry: Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes I think I had better read this article. Thank you for posting!

Gary O Member	# Posted: 8 Feb 2011 20:16 Reply Quoting: Jerry finding beauty and peace in ordinary things I think the aboriginals of North America were also of this vein. Funny, to give thought to it seems so foreign, yet all along it's what I've been after. A personal, unfortunate, stuggle of mine is I have an OCD that I fight every waking moment, and I've found the simple things of life really really are a help. As bobrok, thank you for posting this Jerry. I've got some reading to do.......