Leisure with Dignity – Peace, Love and Starbucks, y’all

A girl trying to find balance between the complicated and simple, stressful and calm, consumerism vs zen

• Home
• The story
• 50 libros in 2009

• Otium Cum Dignitate

  It means "leisure with dignity". It's a concept taken from the ancient Romans - that even though you're having leisure time, that doesn't mean that you aren't still learning or thinking. Imagine sitting in a villa overlooking the mediterranean on your vacation from the hustle and bustle of a crowded city. Not only are you enjoying the view, sleeping late, and drinking some really great wine, but you're also reading philosophy and The Aeniad.

• I am Michelle

  a 20-something wife to the best husband ever. Barista by trade, dreamer by hobby, with a lot of crafting on the side. Crocheting calms me. Compulsive reader, music listener and beginning to find the "place" and "purpose" I've been trying to find for years.

• Currently Reading

  "Dead until Dark" - Charlaine Harris

  "Plum Spooky" - Janet Evanovich

  "You Suck" - Christopher Moore

• To be read

  "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" - Susanna Clarke

  "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" - Max Weber

  "The Upanishads"

• What takes up my time, now.

  
• There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

  --Don Juan DeMarco

• Grace in Small Things!

  

• Beautypedia – I love Paula Begouin!

  

• Currently Crafting (I think I have craft ADD):

  Knitting Socks
  Knitting a kitty bed
  Crocheting baby blankets
  crocheting socks
  crocheting granny squares
  making cards
  learning to use a sewing machine

• Like digging up that embarrassing old journal

  Like digging up that embarrassing old journal Select Month February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007

• Feeds

• Full
• Comments