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The Powerful Effect of Simplicity

Posted on February 13, 2010August 20, 2016 by Pamela Tsigdinos

What’s better than a great haircut and color?

That would be a great haircut and color on a late Friday afternoon of a long weekend in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Ah….women may be many layers deep and complex but there are some simple pleasures that this particular woman sees as worth savoring for the pure simplicity. I know these truths at this very moment:

  • Pink’s Grammy-performed song, Glitter in the Air, is gorgeously lyrical, and her voice wonderfully rich
  • Merlot got a very bad rap in the movie Sideways (I’m enjoying a glass this very instant)
  • Vancouver is a beautiful city, and I’m looking forward to watching the Olympics opening ceremony tonight in a fun-filled sports bar
  • Life is good and I’m happy to be with the best guy on the planet
  • A sunset over snow-blanketed Ponderosa pine-covered mountains, well, that’s the just beginning of what promises to be a breathtaking, delightful, fresh-air filled couple of days.
  • Updated 2/14: Valentine’s Day brunch with bubbly and a well-garnished Bloody Mary

What, my dear Internets, brings you happiness these days?

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10 thoughts on “The Powerful Effect of Simplicity”

  1. barb says:
    February 13, 2010 at 2:53 am

    Smoked ocean trout from a little tiny smokehouse on Bruny island off the coast of Tasmania.
    The tarts I baked yesterday with plums poached in port and vanilla sunk into frangipane (almond meal, eggs, brandy, sugar and butter) and then baked to a delicious consistency.
    Falling asleep on my friends lounge while we were watching episodes of an old tv show.

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  2. barb says:
    February 13, 2010 at 2:54 am

    Ohh – and the hair looks lovely. How do you get such bounce!

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  3. Diane says:
    February 13, 2010 at 1:00 pm

    Schoolteacher in Maine here. School vacation started yesterday and I’m up in my hometown area of rural Maine, just enjoying being here, soaking up the atmosphere of the slower pace, the quiet, and the pine trees. I’m finding over the past year or so that one of the sources of the great contentment of my post-infertility and post-infertility-related-divorce period is the freedom to do pretty much whatever I want to do, whenever I want to do it. Corollary to the category about what we are doing with $ not spent on babysitters, spending a lot of downtime and private time in rural Maine lately (in the winter, no less!) is what I have been doing with time not spent on child-rearing.

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  4. Marci says:
    February 13, 2010 at 5:48 pm

    Cooking a fabulous dinner for my husband and lounging at the candlelit table afterward talking and drinking wine. Seeing my sweet cats curled up sleeping, without a care in the world. Finding an unusual piece of furniture at a garage sale and transforming it into something beautiful.

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  5. La Belette Rouge says:
    February 14, 2010 at 5:40 am

    What lovely small pleasures. I do have some great hair going on these days. And, I got a LOVELY and supportive comment from a special member of the silent sorority (that would be you) that helped me feel less alone and gave me some hope. Thank you!

    Reply
  6. Fiona says:
    February 14, 2010 at 2:13 pm

    Pamela, I’ve just discovered your wonderful fresh start sight, thank you! i’m currently sitting eating chocs my hubbie gave to me for st valentines drinking green tea and relaxing on the sofa after a gym workout, bliss, house is so peaceful all I can hear are the sounds of little birds out in the garden

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  7. Fiona says:
    February 14, 2010 at 2:14 pm

    Pamela, ive just discovered your wonderful fresh start site, thankyou! im currently sitting eating chocs my hubbie gave to me for st valentines drinking green tea and relaxing on the sofa after a gym workout, bliss, house is so peaceful all I can hear are the sounds of little birds out in the garden

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  8. Karin says:
    February 14, 2010 at 4:39 pm

    Happiness is:
    1) Two wonderfully cozy, lovable dogs always at my heels
    2)Quilting my next masterpiece
    3)Entering a good book
    4)Lounging around on a weekend never feeling like my husband and I have to get out of our pajamas!

    Reply
  9. loribeth says:
    February 22, 2010 at 9:36 pm

    A couple from me:

    * Watching the Olympics while snuggled under a cozy fleece blanket on the couch.
    * Getting to sleep in on weekends.
    * Chocolate (the new Hersheys milk chocolate kisses are divine).
    * Hugs from my dh.
    * Listening to my dh say he thinks we can probably swing early retirement in another few years (no kids’ college educations to pay for). Woohoo!!

    Reply
  10. anydiets says:
    April 8, 2011 at 12:11 pm

    And you have a cool site and blog!

    Reply

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