Pretend we were all alive together 300 years ago, or 300,000 years ago. What would we do for fun, in the absence of internet, movies, television, and everything else made possible by cheap fossil fuels? I think we’d do what my friends did with me last night to celebrate my birthday: entertain each other without [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Colleen Kaleda'
The Best Entertainment I’ve Ever Had
November 15th, 2009 · No Comments · community, entertainment, food & drink, health & well being, simplicity
Tags: birthdays·Colleen Kaleda·dancing·fun·haiku·Jean Baumann·labor of love·party·risotto·singing·vegetarian
Responses To: How Does Change Happen?
November 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment · lifestyle, politics, simplicity, sustainability
My post on How Does Change Happen? appeared to strike a chord.
Juliet Wilson, the Scottish blogger of Crafty Green Poet, wrote in response:
“There’s a circularity to it in some senses. Politicians feel they don’t want to make laws that will be unpopular but a lot of people won’t take their own actions if they don’t [...]
Tags: Colleen Kaleda·Juliet Wilson
High-Joy, No-Cost Fun: Haiku
May 26th, 2009 · No Comments · community, entertainment, work
A high-joy, low-consumption pursuit that my friend Colleen Kaleda, a journalist, and I love to do together is write haiku. Her first poem reflects that she and her husband merrily ousted some pavement from their property last summer. Contact speaks to our shared love of community and sociability. Which reminds me: this Thursday Colleen and [...]
Tags: Colleen Kaleda·fun·haiku
Love On The Edge by Colleen Kaleda
February 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments · entertainment, simplicity
Happy Valentine’s Day! In the spirit of romance and soft-edged things, we have haiku today by my friend Colleen Kaleda, who happens to be a professional journalist.
Why are Colleen and I so fond of writing haiku together? Because it’s a process of throwing away frippery and non-essentials (and you know how I feel about those [...]
Tags: Colleen Kaleda·culture·fun·Grant Macdonald·haiku·happiness·Honduras·life·love·relationships
Ousting The Pavement
July 9th, 2008 · No Comments · community, health & well being, lifestyle
Guest post by award-winning journalist Colleen Kaleda:
My husband and I recently bought a 96 year old house in a close-in neighborhood of Northeast Portland. If our land could talk — oh what would it say? Perhaps that it wants to shed its excess pavement.
Our sidewalk still has hand-forged steel rings where horses used [...]
Tags: Colleen Kaleda·concrete·culture·demolition·development·environment·EPA·land·Leo Reynolds·life·neighborhood·outdoors·pavement
