Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy

by Sarah Ban Breathnach

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These 365 essays are full of simple pleasures, gentle reminders, and homespun wisdom. The quotes and references have also directed me to several other fantastic reads. Whether I follow the daybook plan, or simply peruse through the pages seeking a message for the moment, this is a book I reach for over and over again. (

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tracylulu | Jun 9, 2009 |

A lesson on simple abundance, everyday joy, for every day of a calendar year. The lessons are short and easy and most will apply to anyone's life. This book is a good place to look for ideas you can use to reduce stress, and find joy, in your life.

WomensHealthPtbo | May 7, 2008 |

Literally a day book of comfort and joy, with one thought or activity for each day of the year. Sweet. (

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Elishibai | Jun 3, 2007 |

Haven't read this yet.

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...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

-Louise Bogan

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Her eye, her ear, were tuning forks, burning glasses, which caught the minutest refraction or echo of a thought or feeling....She heard a deeper vibration, a kind of composite echo, of all that the writer said, and did not say. -Willa Cather

For Chris Tomasino with love and gratitude and Katie who is the Deeper Vibration Always

One moved heaven for this book, the other moved earth.

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Several years ago, after I'd written two books celebrating nineteenth-century domestic life, I was about to begin writing one on Victorian decorative details.

January, the month of new beginnings and cherished memories, beckons.

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Epigraph	...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart. -Louise Bogan
Dedication	Her eye, her ear, were tuning forks, burning glasses, which caught the minutest refraction or echo of a thought or feeling....She heard a deeper vibration, a kind of composite echo, of all that the writer said, and did not sa... (show all)
First words	Foreword: Several years ago, after I'd written two books celebrating nineteenth-century domestic life, I was about to begin writing one on Victorian decorative details., January, the month of new beginnings and cherished memories, beckons.
Last words	(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Happy New Year.

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This book features 366 essays penned from a woman's perspective. Sample topics include gratitude, harmony, self-nurturing, positive body image, the importance of scented linen closets, and many others. Each essay sports a pithy quote from (surprise!) the likes of Kahlil Gibran. Viewed uncritically, it's hard to argue with Simple Abundance's earnest admonitions to appreciate life, in all its messy imperfect excellence. And the fact that serenity and happiness are each in dreadfully short supply can excuse some of the treacly writing. But Breathnach sometimes lapses into what can only be described as her "Martha Stewart on Prozac" voice, and the results are aggravating to the extreme: "If you've been hesitant to strike up a reciprocal relationship with your guardian angel, don't be." Fans of guardian angels will greet these feel-good essays every morning with the rising sun, a cup of mint tea, and a bluebird chirping on the windowsill, and be happy. Skeptics will prefer their coffee very black.

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