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Deep-dive, reflective essays exploring simplicity and intentional living featured in Minimalism Life® premium bi-weekly newsletter exclusively for paid subscribers.
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019: When the world felt smaller - Embodied memory in a digital age

October 22, 2025

018: What the body remembers - Embodied inheritance, and the memory of the everyday

October 8, 2025

017: The philosophy and elegance of maintenance - From broken to beloved: the life of things we keep

September 24, 2025

016: The rituals we choose - A house of gestures, each one a way to stay human

September 10, 2025

015: Slowness as intelligence - A day measured in meaning, not speed

August 27, 2025

014: What doesn't scale - On the quiet value of the human-sized, the handmade, 

and the irreducibly personal

August 13, 2025

013: Attention as devotion - A practice of seeing and being

July 30, 2025

012: The silence between us - On the spaces that hold what spaces cannot

July 23, 2025

011: The space grief asks for - Clearing room for what hurts and heals

July 2, 2025

010: The quiet school - Essentialism as a philosophy of learning

June 18, 2025

009: Minimalism before the word - What the silence made

June 04, 2025

008: The soul in sparse and what remains - Navigating between sterile and characterful minimalism

May 21, 2025

007: The essence of less across the beautiful planet - A study in contrasts and common ground

May 7, 2025

006: Walden and the spiritual urgency of minimalism - A reflection on waking up what matters most 

April 23, 2025

005: Relentless simplicity - The power of cutting through complexity in business and life

April 9, 2025

004: Aesthetics vs. ethics - The paradox of less: When minimalism becomes another form of consumption

March 26, 2024

003: A journey through Wabi-Sabi and Bauhaus - Finding meaning in simplicity, imperfection, and function

March 12, 2025

002: The meaning of space - Beyond minimalism and emptiness

February 26, 2025

001: The (un)bearable lightness of becoming - It's a wonderful, wonderful world

February 12, 2025

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