Living Large In Our Little House

Danylle and Sandy: You’re the win­ners of the draw­ing of “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Vision Boards.” Please con­tact me by Monday, July 4  at fivecoat@​ozarkmountains.​com with your com­plete snail mail address. Thank you all for com­ment­ing and enter­ing! I hope the post was inspir­ing and prompts you to cre­ate your own vision jour­nal or board!

I posted some­time back that I thought I was ready for an e-reader. I love to read and my four book­shelves are crammed full in The Belle Writer’s Studio.

I do get books and if they aren’t keep­ers, trade them into the used book­store. The library is really out of the ques­tion as the one clos­est to our home is tiny and it typ­i­cally takes two years to get new releases.

I’m a per­son who likes to hold paper in my hand and read. I still have a sub­scrip­tion to the local news­pa­per because I like to sit on the sofa and read with my cof­fee before com­ing over to the stu­dio and read­ing fur­ther online.

That’s the rea­son I resisted get­ting an e-reader.

But I was wrong. I love, love, love my Kindle!

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At the end of this post, reg­is­ter to win one of two books!

About a year and half ago I wrote about The Law of Attraction, which is basi­cally the power to draw things into our lives.

I do believe in the power to draw good things we want into our lives. It’s not magic, but is based on a com­bi­na­tion of sci­ence, a good plan and the abil­ity to know when to jump onto opportunity.

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Summer is a mag­i­cal time. Spending more time out­doors, grow­ing our veg­gies in our deck gar­den, fir­ing up the grill on hot sum­mer nights and enter­tain­ing on the party deck.  

It also means we can watch the light­en­ing bugs.

Yep, in Kansas City where Dale and I grew up and here in Arkansas, they are light­en­ing bugs, not fireflies.

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The other day, Debra Jordon made a com­ment on the Reducing Stress post on Living Large. Debra lives in a 320-square foot cabin with her hus­band and son (and I’m assum­ing at least one cat, since it is in the video).

Debra shot a video of her home for Fair Companies and the video went viral on YouTube, gen­er­at­ing over 1.1 mil­lion hits at last count.

When Debra posted on Living Large, she was con­cerned about the plethora of neg­a­tive com­ments at YouTube.

I had writ­ten about this type of reac­tion from peo­ple early on Living Large.  I think what Debra and her fam­ily are expe­ri­enc­ing is a com­bi­na­tion of the phe­nom­ena of peo­ple feel­ing the need to judge other’s lifestyle and cyber bullying.

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