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Hygge: Warm Up Your Home With The Right Lighting
A home that radiates the hygge vibe is definitely a home with soft, natural lighting. The right kind of light is crucial for a hygge home. Lighting can affect a person’s physiological state, evoke emotion, and change your mood. Studies have shown that certain types of artificial light, like bright fluorescent and LED, can cause vision and headache symptoms. Hygge lighting, however, is warm, intimate, and subtle. This type of lighting elicits feelings of safety, happiness, and coziness. Using Firelight Perfect hygge lighting is best achieved the old fashioned way – with fire. If you are lucky enough to have a fireplace in your home, use it to create that…
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Day 14: Thankful for All Energy Sources that Power and Illuminate Our Lives
Hello! Welcome to Day 14 of our 30 Thankful Days Challenge. Today we will consider our gratitude for the energy sources that we use each day. The media often refers to an energy crisis, or depleting energy reserves, on our planet. The growing population of humans, all of whom use up large quantities of energy with the various structures and systems that run our lives and offer daily conveniences, are sapping our planet of its natural resources – namely crude oil which powers our coal and natural gas-driven lives. And yet, humans have come this far in learning how to harness the power of our planet to make our existence…