{"id":399,"date":"2009-05-07T11:34:44","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T11:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/05\/getting-in-touch-with-your-inner-epicure.html"},"modified":"2009-05-07T11:34:44","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T11:34:44","slug":"getting-in-touch-with-your-inner-epicure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/05\/getting-in-touch-with-your-inner-epicure.html","title":{"rendered":"Getting in Touch with Your &#8216;Inner Epicure&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><form class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\" mt:asset-id=\"4831\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px\" height=\"240\" alt=\"charmedlifebook.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/charmedlifebook.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/form>\n<p>The other night I went to check out a reading by Beliefnet&#8217;s amazingly talented blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/yourcharmedlife\/\">Victoria Moran<\/a>. She read from her new book,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Living-Charmed-Life-Finding-Moment\/dp\/0061649899\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1241146732&amp;sr=1-1\"> Living a Charmed Life<\/a>, a really lovely, uplifting, practical guide to being happier. Here&#8217;s a video clip&nbsp;of the event, with Victoria talking about nurturing your &#8220;inner epicure&#8221;&#8211;the part of you who needs simple, small luxuries. And how if we ignore her,&nbsp;you&#8217;ll eventually &#8220;go out and charge something.&#8221; It&#8217;s not about buying a dozen roses for yourself (though that&#8217;s always nice), but not forgetting that a bunch of $5 daisies can also do the life-beautifying trick.<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/54zuLM7VLrQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/p>\n<p><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other night I went to check out a reading by Beliefnet&#8217;s amazingly talented blogger Victoria Moran. She read from her new book, Living a Charmed Life, a really lovely, uplifting, practical guide to being happier. 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