Whoa. This is beautiful.
Hi everyone, and hello new friends — it’s Catherine from The 10 Minute Fix and Small Steps Are Perfect (new book!) dropping by on your weekend.
When I get newsletters, I like to SEE who is writing to me…so I took a dozen selfies for all the new people, but when I went to pick one where my eyes weren’t closed — ha! — my photo roll was FULL OF NATURE and I had to share.
a jacaranda tree and Jacaranda Snow (my first picture book!)
a red bottlebrush (called Grevillea)
white flowering something-I-don’t-know
bush walk in our suburb down a sandy path
I am so lucky.
Nature. Does it recharge you, too?
Deep breath, my friend: today is an excellent day to open your front door and look around. Notice what you’ve been given:
a city streetscape
an ocean view
a back garden
christmas lights
snow
A rainy Sunday?
I used this inscription to begin Small Steps Are Perfect — it’s Van Gogh, and his words are every bit as beautiful as his paintings.
It’s time to appreciate where we are.
Tiny little things matter.
Holidays are a perfect time to look carefully at what’s right in front of us. I hope you have time to enjoy what you see outside your own door, and chat with or hug the people you’ve been given to love. We are so lucky to be here, aren’t we? Very small things are the best.
Happy (peaceful) Sunday. I’m thinking of you.
Love Catherine x
PS.
Remember Jacaranda Snow? Link is here!
These beautiful words of Byron Katie to ponder: “No two people live in the same world.”
A funny poem by Ogden Nash (the American poets again!!): A Word to Husbands.
Happy Thanksgiving, Americans! Did you know that Aussie pumpkin makes the best pumpkin pies? Here’s an Aussie Sweet Spiced Pumpkin Pie recipe.