Sanctuary Living

02/02/2025

Have you ever felt ambivalent about the place where you live? This is the first time in forty-five years that it happened to me.
To push myself into an inspired frame of mind I painted my living room black.

Making a bold decision is one of the best ways to reawaken the quiet spirit. Taking a different path sometimes is the best way home.

Read the story in the Journal at:
https://www.sanctuaryliving.life/thejournal/theabsenceofghosts

Because I love you.

10/09/2024

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As with all of us, the Sanctuary Living story has evolved.Through my work designing homes over the past 20 years, I discovered a passion for designing lives. Working intimately with clients to create a sense of calm in the midst of their chaos, I learned that the beauty we seek in our surroundings r...

04/13/2024

More in the Journal entry...The Process of Yes...
But, let's start with this:

If I had listened just a little more intently to my body’s whispers, I might have avoided what came next. Yet, didn’t what came next ultimately become the singular most important contribution I would give to the world?—

To not only navigate the hard moment but harness it for extraordinary good.

To make something enduring and exquisite of the most difficult of what we go through.

Summing it up in the simplest terms,
There is no stopping what God intends for you.

I think I stopped wanting something. At least something big. Maybe even something as necessary as breath.

07/29/2021

USE YOUR HANDS to create a life worth living, a beautiful life that manifests who you are. Find out more at
www.sanctuaryliving.life and join me for the weekly blog, posting every .
Much Love.

05/30/2020

There was a time when things like this used to drive me crazy but cuddling on the sofa with a Dane just seems right, even necessary, now.

Take a little time to enjoy the blog and fill your sanctuary with joy. Much love, jk

https://www.sanctuaryliving.life/2020/05/cultivate-beauty/

05/26/2020

Our mission should be to cultivate the beautiful moment—not only what surrounds us, but the sacred conversation that soothes the angst and makes a way for love.

Beauty, for me, has never been something purchased or provided but something accessed deep within.

WE are the lovely interiors we seek—the condition of our hearts, the quiet of our spirits, the color of our souls. It starts there. It has to.

05/15/2020

I am drawn to the conversations, always leaning in to catch the sweet "goodbye" or "je t'aime." So it's no wonder this door felt like someplace I should linger for awhile.

The voices in my head are having a bit of a disagreement, is this vandalism or art? But there is nothing sensed or obvious that this moment is anything other than the congregation of a hundred whispers begging to be heard.

There is more beauty now than ever in the voices. Not only because we long to hear them, but because there are so many things that need to be said.

05/14/2020

My favorite thing as a little girl was our family Sunday drives. While some would head out to the country, we would tour the beautiful neighborhoods, pointing to one house or another and scream, "that one!" when we came upon a place that felt like home. This was the beginning of my obsession with people and their places.

But it wasn't only the stone walls and tidy gardens that captured my little girl fantasies. More, I imagined what the people through the windows were doing, what life they experienced that I might never know.

Wherever I go now, I stare up at the windows and wonder, what beautiful fairy princess might live there?

My thoughts were and are forever of homes filled with a kind of beauty more felt than seen. Like the love pouring through this window, you can feel it, can't you, there? No matter where you are in the world, that's what I am wishing for you now.

Don't give up, don't give in. Because the joy within you, no matter how small, can light up the window for all of us to see. Much love, jk [Read more in the blog; new entry this Saturday, link in bio]