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The home-made mask movement is growing. We can protect each other.

Apr 1, 20205 min read

The home-made mask movement is growing. We can protect each other.

'We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.” Bill...

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52 old-fashioned ways to build wellness, and the scholarly evidence behind them

Cecilia Macaulay

Mar 30, 20202 min read

Create the Future

52 old-fashioned ways to build wellness, and the scholarly evidence behind them

When I'm feeling frightened by life, you can calm me down with this poem. More accurately, I'm calmed by standing up and doing one of...

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Cecilia Macaulay

Feb 15, 20201 min read

The Fox of Valentine's Day

Here is a Valentine fox for you. He is offering a mug of hot chocolate, and no card because foxes cannot read. The message on his little...

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Declutter and Re-set your kitchen sink: Live Webinar this Sunday

Cecilia Macaulay

Feb 13, 20202 min read

Declutter and Re-set your kitchen sink: Live Webinar this Sunday

What's going on in our kitchen sinks mirrors what’s happening in other areas of our life. Making changes to this 'power zone' can impact...

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Where is Your Refuge? Find a Beautiful Farm. Look After Each other.

Cecilia Macaulay

Jan 4, 20204 min read

Where is Your Refuge? Find a Beautiful Farm. Look After Each other.

From day one of this decade, we learned that our only true security is in each other. Like many of us, I know the feeling of loving and...

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Cecilia Macaulay

Jan 2, 20203 min read

Declarations cause Adventure

The world of the year for 2019 was about Emergency. I'm making a related, yet different declaration, and seeing what surprises emerge.

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Honor your dwellings with natural hand lettering

Cecilia Macaulay

Dec 7, 20192 min read

Honor your dwellings with natural hand lettering

Luxury life of the future will be homes free of the industrial vibe. We will all be tired of things that look born and raised in...

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To Create Love, Just add Water. And One More Thing.

Cecilia Macaulay

Dec 3, 20193 min read

To Create Love, Just add Water. And One More Thing.

"Go with, not against nature" - Bill Mollison One of the highlights of the Bali Extreme Wellness retreat was a treatment called Healing...

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Cecilia Macaulay

Dec 1, 20191 min read

How to Transform Tedious into Absorbing

‘Find ways to be comfortable in uncomfortable situations’. That was one of the promises of Dr Marcs Extreme Wellness retreat, here in Bali.

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How long do you want to live, and why? Telomeres are now in your story.

Cecilia Macaulay

Jun 29, 20193 min read

How long do you want to live, and why? Telomeres are now in your story.

How long do you want to live, and why? What are you looking forward to, and who do you want to do all that cool stuff with? These are...

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Cecilia Macaulay

Jun 9, 20191 min read

Tiny Farm Gets Creative 'Reset'

Today team Gardenfarm visited Jamie and Shannon's lovely farm, with the goal of thinking up ways to make it even lovelier. Yes, we will...

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Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they are yours.

Cecilia Macaulay

Jun 4, 20193 min read

Declutter

Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they are yours.

Delldint is amazing. She is winning. I'm doing a home declutter and reset with her. The deal was, we would go 'all the way'. As we made...

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"Why bother, when it just gets messy again?"

Cecilia Macaulay

May 29, 20191 min read

"Why bother, when it just gets messy again?"

Im now the offical declutter designer of Delldent Flemming. She is my favourite client: a big picture thinker, generous and generative,...

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Turning around a Downward Spiral, at Ben and Risa's Luxury Chicken Farm

Cecilia Macaulay

May 28, 20192 min read

Turning around a Downward Spiral, at Ben and Risa's Luxury Chicken Farm

Farmer Dan has an Honour's degree in Economics. Maybe that's why he produces spectacular, naturally-raised eggs, chosen by top...

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Cecilia Macaulay

May 28, 20191 min read

Its always better to be the leader.

If you want to have the most intesting people in Sydney turn up in your lounge room, today is your lucky day: the Tim Ferriss Creative...

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Aladdin's Cave Garage: Declutter and Make Your Treasures Findable.

Cecilia Macaulay

May 15, 20194 min read

Aladdin's Cave Garage: Declutter and Make Your Treasures Findable.

A trap that most of us fall into is this: We believe a garage is for storing things, and being nice to our past. Everything falls into...

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How an Orange Tree Can Make Your Day Just Lovely

Cecilia Macaulay

May 5, 20192 min read

How an Orange Tree Can Make Your Day Just Lovely

It was a few weeks ago that Nancy, one of Gardenfarm's early interns, wrote this entry in her daily diary. I found it charming, so I'm...

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Cecilia Macaulay

May 4, 20191 min read

Rescue something precious

The soundrack for this film is Chage and Asuka's 'On your Mark'. Its only six minutes long, but its long enough to remind us that...

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I'd rather be lost with you, than saved without you

Cecilia Macaulay

May 2, 20192 min read

I'd rather be lost with you, than saved without you

'Social work is hard if you are trying to fix people. I don't fix people. I make them feel seen, feel known. Thats wonderful work. I come...

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Knolling: The Humble Art of Lining Things Up

Cecilia Macaulay

Apr 27, 20192 min read

Knolling: The Humble Art of Lining Things Up

Apple does it, your annoying former housemate does it, and the entire nation of Japan does it. They line things up at right angles when...

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