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Simple Living Works! Monthly Digest
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December, 2017
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.
- Alternative Radio Podcast (David Barsamian)
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Center for a New American Dream
- Ideas to get more involved, both on an individual and a community level. From helping with hurricane relief efforts, to confronting racism in your community, there are plenty of ways to make a difference, with a couple pledges and challenges as well.
- NEW WAYS TO HELP
- Hurricane Relief: Another Way to Help. Did you know you can use SoKind to deliver the most-needed contributions – both material and non-material – to those who could use a helping hand?
- FIND OUT HOW
- Confronting Racism
Casey Williams, New Dream's Director of Operations and Outreach, makes the case for confronting racism through personal change, individual action, and community connection.READ MORE
PLEDGE
- Yes to Waiting
The Wait Until 8th pledge empowers parents to rally together to delay giving children a smartphone until at least 8th grade. Research shows why kids are better off without the internet, social media, and games constantly at their fingertips.SIGN THE PLEDGE
WORKING THE DREAMCHALLENGEROUNDUP
Likable Links
+ The dis-ease of being busy & how to pause
+ Bookmark this: Simple Rules for Living
+ How to make positive changes stick
+ Americans under 25 are bringing a new era of tolerance
+ Well-being for people & the planet happens through "purpose in action"
Susan Salterberg Interview
Susan Salterberg, from Univ. of Northern Iowa’s Center for Energy & Environmental Education, spoke with us about her work guiding K-12 educators to create lessons for their students around consumption, well-being, and sustainability.
READ MORE
- All Simplify the Holidays resources
- The Common Good Podcast - Check out the new site.
- 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
- 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
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 summer blog posts focused on letting go of troublesome emotions. My Fall posts return to more practical concerns.
- Plastics – Do’s & Don’ts - Being a virtuous recycler, you may already have most of these tips in muscle memory, but here's a way to keep them all in one post. Plus, a nugget I just learned today - Grocery stores generally accept thin plastic bags for recycling but NOT the PE-LD #04 plastic wrapping.
- Letting Go of Worry - This is a continuation of letting go of negative emotions since I realized that I needed to do this. It differentiates between productive worry and non-productive worry.
- Feel Good Giving - Pay attention to bad news and needs. Where is there a fire, a flood, a homeless shelter. Often these are places that need stuff you've been hanging on to "just in case." Turn your waiting in to something that will help someone now.
- Temporary Gifts--Have adult kids who are moving? We did. Our daughter knew we are constantly looking for places to give extra odds and ends. She offered us a win/win opportunity. We give her stuff until her overseas possessions arrive. She would then pass on our extras.
- How Much Is Enough?--This age old question is never completely answered but it is a good one to keep in front of us during the Christmas shopping season (or whenever). Enjoy the 3 inspiring short videos.
- Going Beyond My Bubble - Why and how I became motivated to reach out to those who voted differently than me
- Procrastination Redeemed - 5 lessons learned from continuing last Lent's effort to declutter my work space and how the first step revealed unintended additional steps but also unexpected finds.
- Political Conversations - an interruption - or was it
- Updating My Life #1 - Files - How to evaluate what work files are worth keeping
- Updating My Life #2 - Paper - Applying similar criteria to even more paper
- Updating My Life #3 - Books - The mystery of how getting rid of some books required a bigger bookcase.
- Letting Go of Health - Life interrupted: 9 lessons from a fall.
Although I haven't written it yet, my mind has been working on the idea of "Letting Go of Hate." It's a follow up to my "Political Conversations" post. Stay tuned.
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
PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
Prayer & Politiks (Ken Sehested): At the intersection of spiritual formation and prophetic action (weekly)
NEW 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
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
- SLW! Podcast #103 -- Kathy McGinnis of The Institute for Peace and Justice (10/15) //
- SLW! Podcast #102 -- Meghann Jarchow of the Univ. of So. Dakota Sustainability Program (10/1) //
- In the 500th year of the Reformation SLW! Podcast #100 -- Reformation History Scholar and ELCA Bishop Guy Erwin
- In the 500th year of the Reformation SLW! Podcast #99 -- Order of Lutheran Franciscans
- SLW! Podcast #101 -- Paul K. Chappell of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
- In the 500th year of the Reformation SLW! Podcast #100 -- Reformation History Scholar and ELCA Bishop Guy Erwin
- SLW! Podcast #99 -- Order of Lutheran Franciscans
- 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!"
- Post-Election Emergency/Disaster Preparedness and Survival Guide
- Our Simpler Living Weekly Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for Feb.
// March
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions
- Our Simpler Living Weekly Daily Nudge // Easy-to-share for Feb.
// March
- 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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