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Weekend Meditation is one of the best kept secrets on the Apartment Therapy website. I forget how I stumbled across it, but the writing is delightful, warming, soul food. How can you ignore an article that starts: “Sometimes when life gets too full of stress and obligation and disappointments, I lock my door, bury my cell phone under the bed pillows and start chopping carrots.” I like cooking and baking, and I love being reminded to notice the beauty in the everyday, and the sacred in the ordinary. If you feel the same, read on …

“For a happy life it’s important to be able to find beauty in everyday things. This teaches us to appreciate what we already have and to not look outside of ourselves for definition and satisfaction. This in turn dials down that gnawing feeling of dissatisfaction and lack. Which in turn allows more space and opportunity for happiness and satisfaction and the beautiful things to register. A simple formula, but often difficult to manifest. In my experience, the best place to practice this in in the kitchen. Why? Well, for one you’re likely to find yourself there at least two or three times a day so it’s a very practical place to start. And a very ordinary, everyday place, too. But the same time, the kitchen is filled with the most extraordinary things. Example? Consider the cardamom pod…” (From Weekend Meditation : Finding Beauty in the Kitchen)