Category: Reflections

  • My Vintage Books Collection

    My Vintage Books Collection

    I’ve written in my last post about my new found interest in collecting old books . Around this time is when I got carried away and started shopping at a local antique mall, searching for leather-bound old books. I found so many of them—novels, medical books, nonfiction books, cookbooks, and children’s books. The oldest book…

  • Rediscovering the Charm of Old Books

    Rediscovering the Charm of Old Books

    I never really saw myself doing this, but out of nowhere I started thinking, “It would be really nice to have old books on the shelf.” Perhaps the idea comes from my affinity for vintage or old-world aesthetics. Our fireplace has a shelf on top, and it was filled with nativity figurines during Christmas. Now…

  • Embracing the Power of an Ordinary Life

    Embracing the Power of an Ordinary Life

    For a long time, I thought that to fully live your life, you have to be great and live to your highest potential. A phrase that I used to hear a lot when I was in the New Age—to live as your highest self, to achieve your God-like state of enlightenment, to optimize everything (even…

  • Taking a long pause…with everything

    Taking a long pause…with everything

    I took a huge social media break, both Facebook and Instagram, the longest I’ve ever been. I probably won’t ever come back to that account. I haven’t done any YouTube videos or posted any blogs here for a few months now. It was a needed break. I thought I was going to keep creating and…