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Episode 90
In her Lenten disciple “love your enemy,” author, blogger, speaker, coach Susan Vogt listens to conservatives to find out why they vote for regressive government.
Read her extended blog on her experiment. With her permision, I have included below her personal responses which she left out of her blog.
- *Episode 38: Susan Vogt, author, speaker, blogger [2/1/15]
- *Episode 39: Susan Vogt + LENT [2/15/15]
Susan’s Site: marriage, parenting, spirituality, leadership, workshops, books, about Susan
AWARD WINNING AUTHOR
- Blessed by Less: Clearing Your Life of Clutter by Living Lightly
- Parenting Your Adult Child
- Money in the Kingdom of God
- Raising Kids Who Will Make a Difference
- Kids Creating Circles of Peace, co-author, Institute for Peace & Justice (IPJ)
- Just Family Nights
ENGAGING SPEAKER
Susan has spoken to groups across the U.S.A. as well as in Japan, Kenya, South Korea, India, the Philippines, and Guam. She leads interactive workshops that leave audiences with practical ideas for a more meaningful and satisfying life.
Trivia note: Susan gave away one thing a day for a year and ate on $4.50/day for six weeks.
ACKNOWLEDGED FAMILY AND MINISTRY LEADER
- Leadership team for the Marianist Lay Network of North America (MLNNA) (2005-present)
- Representative for Lay Marianists of N. America, Asia, Australia, and Ireland (2009-present)
Champion of Simple Living: speaker, author, blogger Susan Vogt.
Testimonials/Feedback/Comments/Response to all SLW! media
References to blogs: Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? — Lent/Easter Resources; Susan’s contributions
Susan’s Responses
WHY TRUMP?: Although this wasn’t a scientific study, the primary reasons most people gave are below. Since I didn’t want this to be a debate, the responses I would have liked to make (but didn’t) are in italics.
- CHANGE – Washington is corrupt. Congress can’t get anything done. (Our government also gets a lot right, like the EPA protecting our environment.)
- Trump is not a career politician. – This is related to #1 because many felt the reason Congress can’t get anything done was that they were beholden to lobbyists with money to get re-elected.
- Over-regulation – Many were entrepreneurs and government regulation made it harder for them to do business. (Regulation also protects us from dishonest or harmful practices.)
- Abortion – “I didn’t vote for Trump, I voted for the Supreme Court that would overturn Roe v Wade.” (The law does not force anyone to get an abortion. Better solutions are prevention, adoption, and/or helping women with societal support to raise a child after birth.)
- Big government keeps people lazy. – “Welfare enables folks to just sit around on the couch, watch TV, and drink beer.” (I was once a welfare worker. It’s not this simple. Supporting strong family life, education, mental health services, etc. are the building blocks of a strong society. Some will always fall through the cracks. Are we there to give them a leg up or just to judge.)
- Why not! All had serious reservations about Trump as a person, but they overlooked his nasty personal life because:
*He was a successful businessman who would take action. (He also had some bankruptcies.)
*He was an outsider who could shake things up (“drain the swamp”) (Many of his appointments have little experience for their job and often have ties to a different exclusive swamp.)
*Our system’s checks and balances would rein him in. (With both houses of Congress supporting him, extremely conservative appointments, and use of executive orders, where are the checks and balances?)
MENTIONS in This Episode
- Simple Living SANITY Suggestions
- I Buy Blue. How About You?
- Banishing Fake News
- Lee Van Ham’s “Eden for the 21st Century” trilogy: Vol. 2 – From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable,” — SLW! Ep. 79 + REVIEW // Vol. 1 – Blinded by Progress
Earlier Episodes
Ep. 89 :: Northwest Earth Institute
Northwest Earth Institute is a non-profit organization that inspires people to take responsibility for Earth.
NWEI was founded in 1993 with a simple objective: to give people a framework to talk about our relationship with the planet and to share in discovering new ways to live, work, create and consume.
For over 20 years, NWEI has helped make change more possible, more social, and yes, more fun by helping people connect with their communities and take action, together.
A Different Way: Living Simply in a Complex World, the newest book from NWEI, offers us a chance to reconnect with what matters most, explore practical ways to simplify our lives, and reduce our impact.
Conversation with Lacy Cagle, NWEI Dir. of Learning
Mentions in This Episode
- Tim Kasser, author of The High Price of Materialism — SLW! Podcast Ep. 62
- Mike Mercer, former Exec. Dir. of NWEI — SLW! Podcast Ep. 48
Ep. 88 :: Nancy Pearlman, Executive Director of Educational Communications, is a dedicated educator, anthropologist, environmentalist, and documentary producer who has devoted her life to protecting the environment, helping society, and improving the quality of our colleges.
Core Projects – www.ecoprojects.org
- ECONEWS Television Series
- Environmental Directions Radio
- The Compendium Newsletter
- Ecology Center of Southern California
- Earth Cultures – Ethnic Folk Dance Performances www.EarthCulturesProject.org
- Project Ecotourism – Promoting Responsible Travel
- Humanity & the Planet – Humanitarian Aid and Support to Organizations in Developing Nations
- Environmental Resources Library
Additional Projects: Campus Greening // Eco-View // Social Justice and the Arts // Ecological Action Checklist (English and Spanish)
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Cecile Andrews: Episode 87
Champion of Simplicity Circles and Community Conversation Working with Millennials and Minimalists through local groups to Build Resistance to regressive governments.
A community educator, Cecile is active in the transition movement in the United States. Cecile and her husband are founders of Seattle’s Phinney Ecovillage, a neighborhood-based sustainable community, which has morphed into Sustainable Greenwood-Phinney.
Cecile’s Champion of Simple Living PROFILE
She’s the author of. . .
- The Circle of Simplicity: Return to the Good Life (1998)
- Slow is Beautiful: New Visions of Community, Leisure and Joie de Vivre(2006)
- Less is More: Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness (2009)
- Living Room Revolution: A Handbook for Conversation, Community and the Common Good (2013)
- Contributor to Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America
Cecile’s site is CecileAndrews.com (NOT SimplicityCircles.com)
SLW! Podcast Ep. 15 with Cecile — See the Show Notes of #15 for more interesting links.
Mentions in This Episode
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John de Graaf‘s Champion of Simple Living PROFILE
John’s recent articles:
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- Episode 80 (2/1/17)
- *Episode 61: John de Graaf, producer and author of Affluenza [1/15/16]–SLW!
- The Common Good Podcast: John de Graaf on episode 39 – Affluenza [8/28/13]http://traffic.libsyn.com/thecommongood/tcp-039.mp3
- The Common Good Podcast, episode 40 – Happiness Initiative [9/27/13]http://traffic.libsyn.com/thecommongood/tcg040.mp3
Episode one of the two-part series is based on Walter Brueggemann‘s six theses about money & possessions throughout the Bible; episode two is his brief survey of the theme of money and possessions in the Bible.
Essential Reading! — Contents, Series Foreword, Foreword (Richard Horsely), Preface, Introduction (Chapter One) — available free online.
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The Simpler Living Daily NUDGE
- What Is The NUDGE? / How It Works / How Do It Get It: Send NUDGE to SimpleLivingWorks@Yahoo.com / How Do It Share It / More About Holidays
- 2016
- June — Alternative Giving
- July — Money & Goods
- August: Personal Choices, Happiness, Fulfillment
- September: Non-conform Freely
- October: Sustenance
- November: More Celebrating
- December: Responsible Celebrating
- 2017
- January: Life Principles of Voluntary Simplicity
- February: Celebrating More Responsibly– Week 1: Music/Worship || Week 2: Preparing for Lent, Easter and Other Spring Festivals || Week 3: Rites of Passage || Week 4: What Is ‘Enough’?
- March: Global Justice–Week 1: Language || Week 2: Hunger & Homelessness || Week 3: Peace/Violence || Week 4: Advocacy/Boycotts
- April: Earth Care–Voluntary Simplicity Life Standard: Cherish the Natural Order–Week 1 Water || Week 2: Energy || Week 3: Chemicals & Waste || Week 4: Consumables
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SLW! Recommends Literacy Service
This service contains books (paper, eBooks, audio), video (DVD, internet), audio (CD, MP3), blogs, podcasts, sites. These are somewhat current resources. For classic resources, visit Study/Activity/Action Guides. For more ideas, go to Getting Started. Also see Champions of Simple Living and other worthwhile Links.
Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – MARCH
Tony & Shane Uncut
Champions of Simple Living Today
Vicki Robin, Cecile Andrews, John de Graaf, Duane Elgin and more!
Simple Living blog/podcast/site preview service
Treasury of Celebrations: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth, the last edition of the classic series Alternate Celebrations Catalogs.
Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold) | Share the Joy of a Simpler Lifestyle Through Speeches, Workshops, Events, Study/Action Groups, Simplicity Circles and Social Media + BONUS: Social Media Supplement // Self-Starters Needed! // Free coaching for groups on the internet
Themes/Seasons: Alternatives’ Collections Index: Advent/Christmas/Epiphany | Lent/Easter | Other Seasons | Anytime/Non-Seasonal | Music | Art | Audio | Video | Spanish | Living More with Less
Spirit of Simplicity: Quotes and Art for Simpler Living and Global Justice (Foreword by Cecile Andrews) | Introduction | How to Use This Collection | QUOTES | ART | En Español (all)
10 Tips for a Simpler, More Meaningful Celebrations | SPANISH: 10 puntas
Jubilee Economics / The OneEarth Project colleague Lee Van Ham’s book Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us. Also, hear The Common Good Podcast, which I co-host and produce. || Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals || Lee’s Slide Show
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