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Happy Cows
I was learning about microbiome this weekend. How to create a happy gut. It brought back lessons my dad taught me about feeding and...
Denise Frakes
Apr 17, 20232 min read
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A Recipe for a Meaningful Life
“When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impact upon the world, then you will have accomplished the meaning...
Denise Frakes
Mar 23, 20231 min read
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Save your Brain Simplify your Cleaning
When I helped my grandma Ella move to Washington, I packed up her home. In her kitchen she had a 1 cup Pyrex measuring cup and a 1 cup...
Denise Frakes
Mar 9, 20234 min read
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Got dust? Got Allergies? Asthma? Dust Bunnies?
Do you have dust problem? Dust bunnies hiding, multiplying, accumulating? You are not alone. Dusting is not the home chore most of us...
Denise Frakes
Feb 26, 20234 min read
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Is Gruntled a word?
Did you know gruntled is a word? My hubby came in the office and said where are all the gruntled people? We hear a lot about the...
Denise Frakes
Feb 26, 20231 min read
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Avoid Clutter Clearing Hangovers!
"Sometimes it's about less is more. It's about the seed. Thinking about this gigantic tree that you think is so beautiful but it...
Denise Frakes
Feb 19, 20235 min read
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Chores and Breathing
"When you bring an awareness to your activity, even to ordinary things, that's what art is about. Drinking a cup of tea can be art." The...
Denise Frakes
Jan 31, 20232 min read
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Daily Chores and a Course in Miracles
Can we shift the very nature of how we see our "chores". How we speak, move even think of our musts. What defines a chore anyway? How...
Denise Frakes
Jan 21, 20231 min read
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10 ways to live intentionally- Celtic Wisdom
How do you accidentally end up in Iona Scotland? In 2015 we were helping facilitate healthy living/Ayurvedic retreat at Harmony Hill In...
Denise Frakes
Jan 19, 20233 min read
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Today is the leading edge of history
"We need a new way of thinking, a new vocabulary. We have nineteeth-century thinking, but technology is so fast. We have to change our...
Denise Frakes
Nov 15, 20222 min read
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WE All NEED DESERT! Chocolate Bark Recipe
Desert! What a way to start a blog! It's 6:30 in the morning and I'm already thinking about desert! Of course I am, because the desert...
Denise Frakes
Nov 9, 20224 min read
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Do you know what clutter clearing really is?
Clutter clearing is discovering your poetry. Poems remove the filler and fluff and go straight to the heart. Clutter clearing is a...
Denise Frakes
Nov 9, 20222 min read
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Spiced Pumpkin Muffins...
Below my chat is an incredibly easy, healthy, brain loving and delish recipe... Food is medicine but it doesn't have to taste like...
Denise Frakes
Nov 1, 20223 min read
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Who do I want to be when I die...
I'm in no rush, but if I'm to live the life that most speaks to my heart, then I need to know who I will be when I die...who I want to...
Denise Frakes
Oct 29, 20222 min read
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Creating Community...one you love...that loves you
One of my first exposures to what community is comes from a book called Wabi-Sabi for Writers. by Richard R. Powell. This book, is for...
Denise Frakes
Oct 27, 20223 min read
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We had the worst air quality in the world!!!!
This morning I'm moving blogs into my new blog site. I came across this post. Originally I wrote over a year ago Oct 13- 2021. One year...
Denise Frakes
Oct 22, 20223 min read
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Autumn begins Wabi-Sabi Season
As the rains return, the wind starts to blow, the days shorten and darkness takes its place...I remember it's Wabi-Sabi season. ...
Denise Frakes
Oct 22, 20222 min read
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Not Quite Perfect Yet?
May 1, 2022 Not quite perfect? You can't rush a good poem...or life. I met Mary Oliver on a women's pilgrimage to Iona Scotland. Our...
Denise Frakes
Oct 22, 20222 min read
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I want to die wild
I want to die wild. With a curious soul and a happy spirit. I want to die happy I lived. I want to lay down tonight with a delicious...
Denise Frakes
Oct 22, 20222 min read
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Monday...pay it forward
How do you start your week? How do you start your day? When the world seems too big, chaotic, overwhelming...start with a good...
Denise Frakes
Oct 22, 20222 min read
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