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Welcome to Simple Abundance Online
May, 2013!
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Dearest Friends,
For those of you who have loved the Forum, we encourage you to gather each other’s contact information this month before our current site closes. At the new home of Simple Abundance, I’m looking forward to sharing what I’m up to in a new-for-me blog format. For those of you who continue your active membership through April, we will be gifting you with a remembrance collection of my Illustrated Prayers for Domestic Bliss including some of my favorite cherished vintage art to hopefully charm, inspire and say thank you.
Sending you love and gratitude for supporting my work in the world, and wishing you and yours only peace and plenty as your portion.
Dearest Love,
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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The first real month of spring is always a transitional month and this year it seems that April will be our bridge to possibilities. Because we’ve been house bound for so long our surroundings are beginning to bury us with clutter, good intentions and a ramshackle of making do and neither the head or the heart can bear it another day. We’ve forgotten (or lost track) of the truth that every day isn’t just a moment, it’s where and how you live. This is always the time of the year when it is difficult to get moving in forward motion again. I don’t know about you but the pathways through my home seem to be getting smaller and my dreams of the next part of my life need room to grow and be encouraged.
“In places and people, we seek that elusive feeling of being welcomed. We want our houses and apartments to be warm and nurturing and beautiful, but they are sometimes territories of chaos and confusion, the architect and writer Anthony Lawlor ruminates in his luminous book A Home for the Soul: A Guide for Dwelling with Spirit and Imagination (Clarkson Potter, 1997). Yet the haven the soul seeks is close at hand, within the stove and the cupboard, on the bookshelf, and in the closet. With eyes to see it, and the hands to create it, we can recover the home that the soul desires. But what is more, we can recover the life the soul desires and deserves.
How we care for our homes is a not too subtle but significant expression of not only our self-esteem but the contentment of our soul. I know these lessons seem familiar and maybe you’ve mastered them, but I haven’t, which is why I find myself concentrating on getting our houses in order—literally and figuratively-- so our souls can soar. In the April Simple Abundance Magazine we’ll be looking at our tasks through the filter of “the sacred ordinary”, next we’ll have a refresher course in bottoming out a room which was taught to me by a lovely Englishwoman and finally we’ll have some very vintage dream kitchen reveries from House Beautiful in 1927.
This will be a transition month for Simple Abundance Online as well, as changing times can no longer accommodate the creative and business circumstances necessary to continue. Due to escalating costs we will be moving the site to a new provider in May and we will not be able to host a Member Forum or a Magazine format. So this is the last issue on the Online Magazine and our Member Forum.
