This Youtube channel is new to me — and it's the kind of thing I've been looking for, for ages.
I wanted something calming and beautiful and uplifting, worthwhile and nourishing to my soul but not heavy or crammed with data. Something that would encourage me and bring me peace, something full of beauty and kindness. No stressful info about the calamitous times we live in or hectoring political polemic or posing or pressure to be something I'm not.
This is that thing. I haven't come across something so enchanting in a very long time.
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I am going to check this out. I follow several YouTube channels, mainly vegan vloggers, and most of their content is decent, EXCEPT when they get into "debunking" others, or using the forum to disrespect other vloggers who have a differing of opinion with them. It it tiresome and stressful, and really just very childish behavior and I have unsubscribed from a couple of them so I don't have to see "adults" being super petty.
I found a YouTube channel all about succulents (the plants), it is just peaceful, informative, and very restful to watch. Who needs all the drama some vloggers seem to feel they must have to gain viewers? Not sure what that says about the majority of viewers, that thought is making me feel a bit sad.
Have a blessed day,
Bean
Bean, I think you will love this channel! Youheum (whose channel it is) is a raw-food vegan, too. I think her life and attitudes will make you happy.
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thank you for sharing this!!! you're right, this is beautiful . . . and just the sort of thing that i've been looking for as well. it's truly inspiring. but i have one burning question (which may get answered in one of her videos) where does she get her clothes? that's exactly the way that i like to dress - so simple and comfortable and quiet. absolutely loved this and now have to watch all her videos.
that was beautiful, I don't know why, but at one point I felt as if I would cry, the simplicity is so moving. Inspirational, I need this in my life and subscribed to the channel :)
Bean
Greta — yes, she has a video about her clothes, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p7QCPcLcmE
Hi Bean! Waving!
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Wowsers, watched a few of the vidoes, she is so totally minimalist, it makes you think for sure. I don't think I would want to live totally without furniture. But I like how little impact her lifestyle has on the environment and how conscientious she is about all of her choices, and how flexible she is about her choices.
The music, her voice, the peace she radiates, it set my mood into gentle pace for the day and that is a wonderful thing. I totally get why you enjoy these videos.
Bean
— "how conscientious she is about all of her choices" — Yes, exactly that! For me, this is the gift and treasure of minimalism, that it permits space around each thing you do or own, each decision you make. It gives you the breathing room to live on purpose.
great, now i'm binge watching all her videos and have checked out her website and blog. what she does and how she does it - the pure mindfulness of how she lives - seems to resonate with us. waving to bean (a kindred spirit!) i know that i'll be spending more time exploring the wisdom that this young woman has to offer.
Yes — it's like I always wished a magazine could be, if you see what I mean. Also, I love how her choices make me question my choices and see if I still feel that what I chose was right for me or if I'd want to make a change and do things differently.
I agree that Bean and you are kindred spirits — I was thinking when you both posted yesterday how well you would get on together.
Hello again everyone! Just adding to the admiration of this young lady and her intentional choices. It's tricky to do it without a like-minded community, unless one lives alone, but that's what's so nice about this space on the world-wide-web; it's happening here too! Thank you Pen. And she does emphasise that it's a choice not a dictatorship - which is open, giving and accepting that we are all at different places in being able to do this. I'm not sure I would cope with washing my families turn-over of clothes, bedding, sports kit, towels etc in a little hand washing bag for example, but I do love the s-p-a-c-e in her life and how she makes room for peace and what she values.
Might just pop over to you-tube...
Deb x
Hi Deb — her channel is lovely.
waving to you ladies too :)
Bean
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yes to what you said about reexamining your choices. that's exactly what i am doing as well. it's certainly causing me to makes some changes! deb is correct - some things simply aren't doable in my life. for one thing, we have very hot summers and very cold winters so a lot more clothing choices are going to be needed! but there are still ways that we can work together to keep things simple and spacious. so grateful for this little on-line community.
The examples you gave (clothing) apply exactly to me, too. I loved her linen clothing, but her figure is smaller and neater than mine, and I rely on a set of warm woollen cardigans to see me through the winter — plus a couple of gilets for very cold days.
Another difference is, I think a hammock would be inadvisable for someone as hyper-mobile as me (I could be wrong), it might exacerbate my tendency to round-shouldered collapse! I personally enjoy sleeping on the floor, but don't like being floor-level, so Tony made me two units that join together to make a sleeping platform, on which I have a futon mattress — so the result is pretty much as hard as the floor but elevated, which suits me well.
I'm very interested in her zero-waste initiatives. There are places here I can buy food that's not in plastic packaging (and we do grow quite a bit in our garden, mainly fruit and herbs), but those places are rather far-flung and sometimes the food doesn't keep very well or is a bit old already when you buy it. Because I have to stretch my finances very judiciously, I go for the places where food is both good quality and fresh — which is, sadly, mainly supermarkets because of the high turnover. Which takes me back to the packaging; though I look out for the things that are sold loose and we take cloth bags to put them in. Unfortunately, the organic food is almost always (for obvious reasons) the most heavily packaged. Swings and roundabouts, innit.
An excellent share! Thanks!
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I like this, too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=37&v=mG9xYVyAnuc
Also here:
http://www.savefoodfromthefridge.com
Hi Penelope,
I watched a few of her videos. Very aesthetically pleasing, but I don't think I could live like that for long. I think I'm just too old for that drastic of a change.I love linen though and have some linen clothes and bedding. I love the texture, the coolness to the touch and the muted natural colors linen takes on when dyed. Sleeping in a hammock seems so limiting, I think I would wake up very stiff form restricted movement. And I like furniture.
DMW
Hi DMW — yes, I love linen too, and like you I love the way natural fabrics take dyes.
Hammock sleeping is interesting; if you saw her video on that, you'll have noted she reported being surprised to find it comfortable and restful — didn't make her stiff. In general, people speak very highly of hammock sleeping. I tried it for a while ten years ago and found it immensely comfortable, but for a variety of reasons it doesn't fit for my personal set-up. I posted about it here, http://kindredofthequietway.blogspot.com/2009/08/dirt-woman-transcends-dust-mites.html but took down the photo at some point when I was having a cull of images of me on the internet!
I agree drastic change is usually too much of a shock to the system, but I think we can often benefit in one way or another from learning about someone else's discipline, practice and path. More than anything I found her videos inspiringly peaceful.
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