luxuries

"The emotional stakes are higher as they're stripped away from all luxuries."

Both retailers say growing numbers of their customers are upgrading their camping kit likes the Davis family to include luxuries like mattresses, carpets and furniture.

Williams had brought a couple of chocolate bars with her to the hospital, rare luxuries in a city surviving on flour, water and rationed aid.

"It's not having to worry about those little things. Maybe even being able to afford some kind of luxuries as you're nearing end of life that otherwise might not be able to afford."

That trying new things, listening closely, ordering the good stuff off the menu—these are not luxuries, but ways of being alive with intention.