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New Year's Resolution Bonanza
If you haven't got any New Years Resolutions yet, you are welcome to borrow one from my 'greatest hits' collection. Here are past...
Cecilia Macaulay
Dec 31, 20182 min read
You can leave me behind
If you get a regular home, then take away all the commercial packaging, you create a kind of fairyland. The feeling is subtle, and...
Cecilia Macaulay
Dec 30, 20182 min read
Invisible Infrastructure
There are the things that delight you in life, and there are the support crew that hold up the things that delight you. Lets call the...
Cecilia Macaulay
Dec 30, 20182 min read
There are Many Ways to Connect
When I meet little girls, I could ask them about school, but that would bore them and bore me. So instead, I do a pretty hairstyle for...
Cecilia Macaulay
Dec 29, 20182 min read
Year's End Big Clean, or Big Laze?
I don't know which to do. Japanese spend the last week of the year doing O-soji, or Big Clean. They scrub every surface, change the paper...
Cecilia Macaulay
Dec 28, 20181 min read
This Boxing Day, Inoculate Yourself Against Bargains
Its good practice to periodically roam your home and interview your possessions. Useful questions include : 'How are you supporting me to...
Cecilia Macaulay
Dec 27, 20182 min read
Turning Around a Failed Christmas
It was more than 20 years ago, and my littlest sister had come to visit me in Tokyo. She was still a teenager, and had a beautiful...
Cecilia Macaulay
Dec 26, 20182 min read
Flat people
My mother had to walk past the Orthodox Church to visit me one year, and was very concerned about something when she arrived. "Its the...
Cecilia Macaulay
Dec 24, 20182 min read
Merry and Care-Free
'Drive carefully', my friends would tell me. Since they already know I don't do small talk, I ask them 'How?'. Then things get creative....
Cecilia Macaulay
Dec 23, 20182 min read
Turn Your Life Inside Out: a Beginner's guide
Image: Swiss Family Robinson Tree house, Tokyo Disneyland. The moon is full tonight, and on this solstice day the sun was at its longest...
Cecilia Macaulay
Dec 22, 20182 min read
How to Cross a Threshold.
Something wonderful about my youngest brother is his Entrance Hello. He has been doing it for years. Its not just 'Hi, Im here'. Its not...
Cecilia Macaulay
Dec 21, 20182 min read
Plans can be Costly and No Fun.
'Start with a good plan' is something designers with no experience say when describing how to make a Permaculture Ecosystem garden. ...
Cecilia Macaulay
Dec 20, 20182 min read
The useful things ARE the decoration
In Japanese tea ceremony, when a tray of sweets is passed around, you choose your sweet in a way that leaves a pleasing arrangment...
Cecilia Macaulay
Dec 19, 20181 min read
Creative Void, and how to have more of it
Emptiness is not nothing. Its a thing in itself, and a thing of great power. This is the Chinese character 'ku'. Next time you are at an...
Cecilia Macaulay
Dec 18, 20181 min read
Wonderfully Unexciting Gifts
These 'gifts' won't get dopamine going, or fulfilling any pre-existing desires. They are unsuited to wrapping paper and presentation...
Cecilia Macaulay
Dec 17, 20182 min read
Harmony Please Luv.
Harmony isn't one of those everyday words for us Aussies. 'Come to the barbie this weekend, bring some beer and some harmony'. Nobody...
Cecilia Macaulay
Dec 16, 20182 min read
The Fairy Tale method, for getting where you want to go.
You can proceed into darkness and make a1000 kilometre journey, just by lightning up the 10 meters or so in front of you, till you get...
Cecilia Macaulay
Dec 15, 20182 min read
Increasing 'White Space' to Give You Power
We know that in graphic design, more white space increases the power of our message. Protecting 'creative void' in any area of our life...
Cecilia Macaulay
Dec 14, 20182 min read
Little things. Big impact.
This photo of me was taken exactly 30 years ago, when I worked for Aerospace Technologies of Australia, servicing Boeing 747s. There were...
Cecilia Macaulay
Dec 14, 20182 min read
The Pretty Basket Trap
There's a pest trap called the Cockroach Hotel. The slogan was pretty cute: ‘They check in, but they sure don’t check out. ‘ I've noticed...
Cecilia Macaulay
Dec 13, 20181 min read
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