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Continue reading →: Holiday celebrations, adopt-aversary and appreciating nature: December musingsThere is a quiet light that shines in every heart. It draws no attention to itself, though it is always secretly there. It is what illuminates our minds to see beauty, our desire to seek possibility, and our hearts to love life. Without this subtle quickening our days would be…
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Continue reading →: Tumbles, Festive Travel, and Two Solo Weeks: My NovemberNovember highlights & happenings Open tabs I visited every country in the world without flying. Here are eight things I learned What Happened When I Stopped Expecting Perfection from Myself How to Live to 100, According to Dick Van Dyke The “Specialness Spiral” Might Be the Reason You Have So…
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A gala, a yard and other things: October in review
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Continue reading →: A gala, a yard and other things: October in review“I am not telling you to make the world better. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To…
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Continue reading →: September in review: A month filled with celebrations and familyLife will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are…
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Continue reading →: Looking back on an adventure-filled August: Music, nature and friends“This oak tree and me, we’re made of the same stuff.” ― Carl Sagan August highlights & happenings Open tabs Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong (You Tube) What Dan Read (this was a delightful read) The Bluesky Dictionary (I’ve had fun watching this) US Chamber of…
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July in Reivew: More Spain and Other Summer Things
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Continue reading →: July in Reivew: More Spain and Other Summer ThingsJuly highlights & happenings Open tabs The Best Countries for Life-Work Balance in 2025 Steal these 4 questions a 36-year-old happiness researcher asks himself before worrying When in doubt, Go for a Walk The power of doing nothing (and why it helps your creative work) Notes to myself | Seth’s…
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Continue reading →: Kicking off summer in a big way: Anniversary celebrations, shelter events and Spain“A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.” ― Virginia Woolf June highlights & happenings Open tabs 99 Things You’re Not Too Old To Try As An Adult 22 Common Things Minimalists Don’t Own What Happened When I Stopped Ignoring My Body A New Type…
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Continue reading →: May in Review: Conference fun, Bay to Breakers and community“Sharing our stories requires us to believe that we won’t be rejected for them—to believe that when we reveal our whole selves, including the parts we aren’t proud of, we won’t be seen as undeserving of acceptance or love.” ~The Isolation Journals with Suleika Jaouad May highlights & happenings Open…
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Friends, family and giving back – April in review
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Continue reading →: Friends, family and giving back – April in review“The antidote to doom is curiosity.” – Ezra Klein April highlights & happenings Open tabs How to stop impulse buying An eroding sense of wonder Opt out of consumerism Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you! 35 helpful money resources Is it finally safe to ditch your phone…
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Continue reading →: March Highlights: Spring, building community and the return of our favorite dog park“What we must do, I suppose, is to hope the world keeps its balance; what we are to do, however, with our hearts waiting and watching—truly I do not know,” ~Mary Oliver March highlights & happenings Open tabs Long-term selfish (and the circles of us and now) Lest We Forget…
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I’m Nicole
Trajectory of Life celebrates living purposefully with curiosity, courage and simplicity as guides. I use the blog to document this philosophy through writing about my adventures in reading, travel, cooking, photography, fitness, being a dog mom, minimalism, sustainability, living childfree by choice, marriage and setting and meeting life goals. As someone new-ish to the Bay Area, the blog is also where I share tips for things to do in San Francisco as we explore this new city of ours.
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