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Small Ways | A Few Stems

For all my minimalist tendencies, I do get carried away when it comes to fresh flowers in the house in summer.

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Small Ways | Forcing Hyacinth

Quite simply, it’s hyacinth and grape hyacinth bulbs, jumbled together and forced to life in a tray of watery pebbles. Quite remarkably, it’s an experience that’s changed my life.

Small Ways | Kitchen Drawers

There’s a bank of drawers in the kitchen. Four drawers to keep the flow flowing and the working kitchen working.

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Small Ways | Candlelight

It’s one of the first things I do in the morning, touch a flaming match to the wick of the candle in the kitchen window.

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Small Ways | A New Sequence

Sometimes, the smallest shift can be the key that changes everything.

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Small Ways | A Wool Area Rug

In the small, quiet bedroom nestled under a seven foot, beaded plank ceiling at the back of the house, there’s a bed on one wall, with nightstands carved out of flanking floor-to-ceiling cabinetry.

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Small Ways | Just Like Spring

Spring’s eyelids are beginning to flutter in her sleep. Just over two weeks from now, the calendar says she’ll arrive

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Small Ways | Autumn Things

I’ve got my eye on the tall cottonwood in the middle of the shelter belt on the far side of the pasture. It tells me things I’m curious to know.

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Small Ways | Doors & Knobs

The cool touch of a porcelain knob in the palm of your hand, the comforting weight of a solid wood door as you swing it closed, the quiet click of the latch bolt as it pops into place.

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