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Simple Living Works! Monthly Digest
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May, 2018
In This Issue:
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.
Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast // SLW! Podcast #66
NEW--Frugalwoods: Financial independence and simple living featured on PBS NewsHour, Sun., March 11
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
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
My winter blog posts encompass 4 months instead of just 3 since I didn't want to interrupt Lent.
The first 4 (December & January) are:
Wasting Time/Saving Time - Ideas garnered from one of our family HangOuts about what each of us considers a waste of time vs. a practice that saves time.It ends with 5 lessons learned from our discussion.
Hanging On & Letting Go - A reflection on the winter of our lives. When should we hang on to stuff and memories and when is it time to let go? How can nature become a window to the soul.
2017 Top Tips in a Nutshell - Save yourself some time. See my top dozen posts of 2017.
Necessity or Luxury? - This classic question haunts any simplifier. Check the 10 tips in my Guide for the Sincere Seeker.
The final 7 posts describe my Lenten journey of going beyond being nice to trying to be kinder.
A Kinder Lent - Lays out the history of my Lenten quests and why I chose "to be kinder" this year.
Kinder Lent-Wk. 1: 7 Days - Chronicles the first week, day by day.
Kinder Lent-Wk. 2: Words - Focuses on Mindfulness of Words and how to be less judgmental in speech.
Kinder Lent-Wk. 3: Vegan - Focuses on being kind to the planet by looking at what I eat. Is eating vegetarian or vegan worth it?
Kinder Lent-Wk. 4: Inverse - Receiving the kindness of others. Learning through other's faults.
Kinder Lent-Wk 5: Solidarity - Beyond charity to being kind to enemies and concrete acts of solidarity with those who are hungry, cold, ill, and suffer violence.
7 things I learned about being Kinder - A summary of what I learned from trying to be kinder.
May you be inspired to deepen your own journey to wholeness. Please share your own experiences and insights in the comments section of the blog so that others may benefit from your ideas.
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
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
NEW--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
For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
Upcoming Non-Conform-Freely Celebrations: Sept.-Dec. // Jan.-April
What's Happened
- 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
- 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.
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