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Navigating Chaos: My January Reflections
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Continue reading →: Navigating Chaos: My January ReflectionsIt’s been an unsettling start to the new year, to say the least. When friends and coworkers ask how I’m doing, my response has been the same: my world is good, but everything else around us feels like it’s unraveling. Since January 20 (and even before), I’ve made a conscious…
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Year-end joys: A December review
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Continue reading →: Year-end joys: A December reviewWhen the ceiling caves in, it’s easy to feel hopeless. When we read the news and see so much suffering—all our manmade atrocities, our wars and our politics, our fears and our fury—it’s temping to descend into despair. But the truth is, we live in a beautiful world, full of…
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Continue reading →: November Highlights: Celebrating autumn, a week in Napa and a joy retreat“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.” — Kakuzo Okakura, “The Book of Tea” Click on a photo above to scroll through and view captions for each November highlights & happenings December plans + intentions Open tabs
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Fall in the Big Apple and other October happenings
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Continue reading →: Fall in the Big Apple and other October happeningsSomewhere along the way, you realize that no one will teach you how to live your own life — not your parents or your idols, not the philosophers or the poets, not your liberal arts education or your twelve-step program, not church or therapy or Tolstoy. No matter how valuable…
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Continue reading →: September Highlights: Another Year Older, Volunteering, and So Much Naturemake peacewith all the womenyou once were. // I have been a thousand different women ― Emory Hall, “Made of Rivers” September highlights October intentions + plans Open tabs
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Embracing Joy: August Recap and September Intentions
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Continue reading →: Embracing Joy: August Recap and September Intentions“You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.” ~Pema Chodron August highlights September intentions + plans Open tabs
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Continue reading →: July Highlights and Happenings: Mountain Getaway, Dog Parks, and MoreThere’s a fire burnin’ in the back fortyI’m still findin’ out who the hell I amAnd I’m so tired of wastin’ it awayGonna find the time to realizeI’m in deep on better days ~Zach Bryan, Better Days July highlights + happenings August intentions Open tabs
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Continue reading →: June Highlights and Happenings: Celebrating Six Years of Marriage, Denver Trip, and More“I contain multitudes.” ~Walt Whitman June highlights + happenings July intentions Open tabs
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looking back on May
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Continue reading →: looking back on May“. . . this life, with all of its flaws and inescapable vulnerabilities, its extreme brevity, and our limited influence over how it unfolds, is the only one we’ll get a shot at.” Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals May highlights + happenings June intentions Open tabs
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another new beginning + looking ahead
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Continue reading →: another new beginning + looking ahead“We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. As the gods intended, we are here to…
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I’m Nicole
Trajectory of Life celebrates living purposefully with curiosity, courage and simplicity as guides. I use the blog to document this philosophy through writing about my adventures in reading, travel, cooking, photography, fitness, being a dog mom, minimalism, sustainability, living childfree by choice, marriage and setting and meeting life goals. As someone new-ish to the Bay Area, the blog is also where I share tips for things to do in San Francisco as we explore this new city of ours.
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