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Fixer-Upper DIY + Hometown Nostalgia | 214

Simple

Tsh Oxenreider

Education

4.3 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

There are places in our lives that end up staying with us long after we leave them. In this chat, Katherine talks with Tsh about nostalgia — why we have it about certain places, how to embrace it instead of shake it off, and how to use it so we're more at home in the present.


Tsh then talks with Katherine about why she loves that her family has been renovating their fixer-upper entirely themselves, even with all its challenges. It's easy to forget the benefits when she's staring at all the work they still need to do, but when she remembers their why, it makes all the difference.


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0:00.0

This is simple. I'm chatting with my friend and co-host

0:19.6

Catherine Willis-Persi and like always we're talking about what we wrote about this week

0:23.8

Catherine added to our favorite I love this place series where we share the ins and outs of

0:29.0

places we love often off-the-beat and track kinds of places we would otherwise not know about.

0:34.9

And her writing about her beloved college town of Kent, Ohio, Catherine talks about nostalgia,

0:40.2

why we have it about certain places, how to embrace it, and how to use it to be more at home wherever we are in the present.

0:47.0

And then I wrote about why I love living in a smaller house.

0:51.0

So in this chat, I get into why I also love that we're doing our own fix or

0:55.6

up our renovations ourselves. Sometimes it's easy for me to forget that while I'm

0:59.9

staring at all the work we still need to do. But when I step back and make a deliberate effort to notice the why behind us being DIYers, I remember, oh yeah, I do like this. So in this chat, I share the reasons why. We'll get right into it, but first a quick reminder to make

1:15.3

sure you're signed up for my weekly email called Five Quick Things, because it's the best way to make sure

1:20.0

you never miss an episode of this show or any of our weekly essays.

1:24.0

Basically you'll get links to five things from the week I either created or loved,

1:27.6

plus occasional news you'd otherwise miss because I don't share it anywhere else.

1:30.9

The emails can be read in under a minute because I hate inbox clutter too.

1:34.4

So go to five quick things dot email to sign up for the free weekly email or just

1:39.2

click on the links in the show notes of this episode. All right, so let's get right into it.

1:44.4

Here's Catherine.

1:45.4

Starting us off with nostalgia and why it's a good thing. Okay, Catherine, you wrote this week about one of my favorite series that we do on

1:59.4

the Art of Simple, which is I love this place where you take us a little bit on a

2:02.4

deep dive about a particular place that means a lot to you and a lot of times it's places that we would have never otherwise known about and you told us about Kent Ohio.

2:12.0

And so I'm curious what drew you to writing about Kent and why it's special to you.

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