{"id":8892,"date":"2012-08-29T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=8892"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:14:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:14:34","slug":"less-is-more-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=8892","title":{"rendered":"Less is more…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three articles in a row on a similar theme usually means that someone is trying to tell me something.   First there was the book review of a new book entitled The Book of Marvels<\/a> by Lorna Crozier. It’s a book of essays on household items – relating them to life. Something like… a bowl can be looked at in 4 ways – it’s either empty or full, cracked or whole a bit like a life.  Anyway it’s the celebration of small seemingly unimportant things and it got me thinking of the importance of small things like a door knob and how my life doesn’t have to be boring if I just try to elevate the ordinary the way the author has.<\/p>\n

Then there was the FB post about a photographer in S. Korea<\/a> who spent two years just photographing life from one window of his house. No longer will I complain about not having a subject to photograph or anyplace interesting to go to take pictures.<\/p>\n

Finally there was another article in the newspaper about people living with less<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It got me thinking, especially since I have a “blog-a-day- challenge” starting Sept 1 until Sept 30.  What if I took a photo a day of something very ordinary in my house and wrote a post about it.  Now I would have to make it look a little extraordinary to have it fit the theme – but I may try.<\/p>\n

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\nThis was dinner Sunday night.  Now it was special.  Really I should have posted a picture of the leftovers eaten on Monday to carry out the theme of trying to make the ordinary extraordinary.<\/p>\n

I’ll work on it.<\/p>\n

Have an extraordinary day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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