Time, I can see, is of no matter in this land. But the sky, the sky is one I know. It is blue, and it is marbled gray.
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Erin Loechner
ABOUT ERIN / “By day, I research trends and change diapers and write essays and design products and answer emails and speak at international events and say another prayer and brew another coffee and travel the world and read a chapter and kiss a skinned knee and battle imperfections and curate art and fry bacon and change my outfit and honor my husband and style lookbooks and sing lullabies and search for that ubiquitous missing sock yet again. By night, I write it all down here.” — Author of Chasing Slow and founder of Design for Mankind, Erin Loechner has been blogging and speaking for more than a decade. Her heartfelt writing and design work has been showcased in The New York Times, Lucky, Parenting, Dwell, Marie Claire, Elle Decor, Huffington Post, and a two-season http://HGTV.com|HGTV.com web special, garnering over one million fans worldwide. She has spoken for and appeared in renowned international events for clients such as Walt Disney World, IKEA, Martha Stewart and Home Depot. Now nestled in a Midwestern town, Erin, her husband, and two kids strive for less in most areas except three: joy, grace, and goat cheese. To read more about her professional career, click here. To read her “real bio,” click here. To read more about her blogging history, click here. To read more about her family, meet her husband Ken, daughter Bee and son Scout. Erin is passionate about slow living, mold breaking and window-down, top-of-the-lung car singing. Welcome to her new-fashioned lifestyle.
Sometimes, when we’re not looking for what we want, we find what we need.
Here is the secret to subtraction. It doesn’t matter what you remove. What matters is that you stop adding it back.
We are doing ourselves no favors when we look to the crowd to tell us where we are.
What we do is not who we are, and although we know this, we still, continually, over red-pepper bisque at a dinner party, ask each other what we do for a living.
There is only today, with holes in our pockets, with time spilling out.
Authenticity is not the watering down of your message to help someone accept your words. Authenticity, I think, is simply trying to find the kindest way to tell the whole truth.
Maybe a successful marriage means just never falling out of love at the same time.
Do you know what happens when we victimize ourselves? We lose everything that matters. We lose the freedom to change, the grace to rise above, the strength to get up off the couch.