Bonjour, welcome to the 142nd edition of Tranquility DeJure, a guide to bringing

tranquility to your everyday. Today's show, Me and You features happenings and newsings on journal writing with Samara O'Shea.

She's the author of Note to Self on Keeping a Journal and Other Dangerous Pursuits.

Happenings. Join moi for events around the globe. We have a day focused on creating a fabulous 2009 at our second annual New Year's gala.

We have workshops in Montreal in March, a luxurious weekend of tranquility and creativity

at our third annual HIP Tranquil Chick retreat in a lovely farmhouse, not far from New York City, the last weekend

in March, a decadent retreat to Costa Rica over Memorial Day weekend, and another

tranquility-filled week at Krapaloo, August 9th through the 14th. So if you're looking at getting

away, here's some great options. And of course, there's

tons of workshops in D.C. in the interim. And all that can be found on my workshops page at

Kimberlywilson.com. Our featured eco-lux tranquility item is the lavender-scented eye pillow.

These are actually handmade in Oklahoma by my mother, and they are

amazing. It's organic flaxie. It's got a damask color, and it's perfect for, or cover, excuse me,

it's perfect for this time of the year, considering lots of the headaches are creeping in.

And last podcast was a focus on restorative yoga.

And during restorative yoga, I love to have my eye pillow.

So I wanted to feature that as part of our upcoming home collection.

And that can be found at tranquility.com.

Today's featured guest is Samara O'Shea.

She's an outspoken advocate on behalf of the written word.

She is author of Note to Self on Keeping a Journal and Other Dangerous Pursuits

and For the Love of Letters, a 21st Century Guide to the Art of Letter Writing.

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