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Simple Living Works! Monthly Digest
Updated Weekly
Month 7, 2020
In This Issue:
- What's NOW with SLW!
- What Others Are Doing
- What's Happened
- More!
What's NOW with SLW!
What Others Are Doing - So Much Help!
I gladly pass along links from simple living bloggers, podcasters, coaches and others. Some faith-based, some not. You needn't read them all. Choose FIVE links -- including SLW! -- to investigate.
For links to earlier entries, check the previous months' digests.
- Alternative Radio Podcast (David Barsamian)
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- NEW--Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) is committed to helping children thrive in an increasingly commercialized, screen-obsessed culture, and is the only organization dedicated to ending marketing to children.
- Center for a New American Dream
- Community Solutions: Founded in 1940, this non-profit organization advocates for small communities and the benefits of face-to-face relationships. Since 2003, the focus has been to provide resources for low-carbon living and to inspire collective, cooperative solutions in the face of peak energy and climate change.
- Creation Justice CAPSULES: News and Opportunities for Christians Doing Creation Justice
- EarthTalk/E-The Environmental Magazine
- Earth Island Journal (Earth Island Institute): Latest News // Current Issue
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) NEW -- Made for These Times song for Ladies Sewing and Resistance Society
- Lead sheet with melody line (downloadable PDF @ http://www.earthmama.org/)
- Full lyrics (downloadable PDF @ http://www.earthmama.org/)
- video (1 minute) of singing and sewing
https://youtu.be/NQjZ4eeVTWs
- video (6 minute) including wonderful short interviews with sewers explaining WHY they will be marching, some for the first time ever in this kind of activism. Song plays the last minute. https://youtu.be/IJiNZcYc428
Blessings, Joyce (Earth Mama) //
Website, Songbooks, YouTube videos; Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumb drive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings // SLW! Podcast
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast // SLW! Podcast #66
- Frugal Rules: Freedom Through Frugality
- Frugalwoods: Financial independence and simple living featured on PBS NewsHour, Sun., 3/11/19
- GodSpace (Christine Sine) // SLW! Podcast
- The Good Stuff your dose of what's working in the world from The Story of Stuff Project!
- Green Child eMagazine: Simplify for Happier, Calmer Kids
- NEW--GrowthBusters and GrowthBusters Podcast
- The Homesteading Guide Daily: Exploring life off the grid.
- Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo (Lee Van Ham & Gerald Iversen)
- A Living Earth Economy (David Korten - Yes! Magazine): How we can make peace with nature, realize the value of living wealth, and return to local, self-organized rule.
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways - Finding good homes for no longer needed items rather than just putting them in the trash //SLW! Podcast // SLW! Podcast: Lent
Dear Friends,
Since my last Quarterly Living Lightly Blog Alert in Feb., the world has changed. Lent and Covid-19 came. Lent is over but my carefully planned commitments changed and I was transformed. The coronavirus, however, is not over. Whether your daily life has changed a lot or just in temporary superficial ways it prompts all of us to stop, think, and listen to what lessons may be hidden in this pandemic. This Quarter's Blog posts follow this rhythm.
Lent: 1st 2 Weeks of Justice - Review of how the first 2 weeks of Lent went according to my 5 point plan.
Covid-19 Changes Everything - By March 20 coronavirus cancellations started impacting me directly. I imagine that sooner or later this happened to you too.
Holy Week at Home - Not everyone follows a religious tradition, but for those who connect with a faith community, especially Christians, the beginning of April is steeped with communal worship services. Since physically gathering in a church, temple, or mosque was not possible, our culture experimented with how to take the essence of our spirituality and apply it at home. This is awkward at the least, but may hold the seeds of new ways of experiencing a sacred presence.
I Had a Plan - Looking back at Lent and the coronavirus that evolved at the same time, this is a reflection on 3 things I learned about myself and 3 questions it raises for all of us about the future.
Spend in order to Save - So getting back to the theme of this blog, Living Lightly, I reflect about how we live generously in a time of crisis.
I'm wondering how the past several months have changed your life? I welcome your reflections.
Fondly,
Susan
- Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
- Lutheran Peace Fellowship: Simple Living Resources // SLW! Podcast
- The Minimalists podcast (Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus). Getting us past the things so we can make room for life's most important things -- which actually aren't things at all.
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
- New Changemakers: Join the Changemaking Celebration! (Tom Sine)
- NorthWest Earth Institute's latest discussion course ebook, Sustainability Works: Rethinking Business As Usual // Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions // Voluntary Simplicity // SLW! Podcast
- One Earth/One Child Project
- The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham) // SLW! Podcast
- The Pastoral Center/Gospel Living (Paul Canavese) // SLW! Podcast
- They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace and Nonviolence in a Time of Climate Change by Fr. John Dear
- Teaching Kids to Care for God's Creation: Reflections, Activities & Prayers for Catechists & Families by Sr. Mary Elizabeth Clark, SSJ
Available at: https://pastoral.center/on-care
- Other Simple Living and Ecology resources
- CatholicCreationCare.com - General resources
- CreationCareKids.com - Children's resources
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
- Prayer & Politiks (Ken Sehested): At the intersection of spiritual formation and prophetic action (weekly)
- Share Spend Save: Money+Meaning (Nathan Dungan)
- Simple Enough (Bob Sitze) // SLW! Podcast
- Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs) - Time, Finances, Home-Work, Health
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
- Simplicity Collective - Let us be pioneers once more (Samuel Alexander)
- Simplicity Parenting (Kim John Payne): because it is a beautiful world
- Smart and Simple Matters podcast (Joel Zaslofsky of Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent) // SLW! Podcast
- Teach Peace Now
- TransitionNetwork.org: Transition Towns--A movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world // TransitionUS.org
- TreeHugger: Finding a Greener Future
- NEW--World Population Balance and OverPopulation Podcast
- Upcoming Non-Conform-Freely Celebrations:
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What's Happened
- Simpler OneEarth Living Ep.02/19 :: No! to More Factory Farms--Talking with Adam Mason of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement
- Simpler OneEarth Living Ep.01/19:: Immigration and Borders: Horrors, Opportunities, and Needs--Talking with Jimmy Marcelin
- SLW! Episode 110: Transformational Educator Mark A. Burch, Author of "The Hidden Door: Mindful Sufficiency as an Alternative to Extinction;" "Stepping Lightly: Simplicity for People and the Planet" and "The Simplicity Exercises: A Sourcebook for Simplicity Educators." "Euterra Rising: The Last Utopia" is his debut novel.
- SLW! Episode 109: Richard Heinberg of Post-Carbon Institute
- Bonus Podcast Episode: Richard Lawrence, author of Light, Bright, Damn Near White on the Power of White in a Multi-Color Humanity for Black History Month: Stories and Reflections of a Multi-Racial Black Man's Battles with Racism in America
- SLW! Podcast --Episode 108: Walter Brueggemann on Abundance + More!
- Review of Lee Van Ham's new "From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable," vol. 2 of the "Eden for the 21st Century" Trilogy. Available on Amazon in print and ebook and other locations where you can get the ebook (Nook, iBooks, Kobo). He says, "Hope the book stirs you to write a review, to converse with others, and to help me tell better than I currently do a story for OneEarth living. Wanting to show Earth more love!"
- Banishing "Fake News" // Simpler Living SANITY // I Buy Blue // Healthy Political Practices / Spiritual Disciplines // Post-Election Emergency/Disaster Preparedness and Survival Guide //
- Jerry's Guide: Where to Get Books
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
- New Year's Resolution: I will focus on what I CAN change. I will focus on voluntary simplicity, my choices to challenge consumerism, live justly and celebrate responsibly.
- Activities of the Chief Activist
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