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When More Stuff Is Good Stuff

June 2nd, 2013 · 10 Comments · energy, global warming and climate change, health & well being

I write about living with more joy and less stuff. That’s because I live in the United States, where we live generally with a glut of stuff, but not always a lot of joy, because stuff has lots of needs of its own, and sends many people into debt. And it tends to distract us from the [...]

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This Is My Only Home

February 5th, 2012 · 6 Comments · community, nature

“This is my home . . . this is my only home . . . this is the only sacred place I have ever known . . . “ We all sang that together last night, performers and audience alike, at the end of the Winterfolk concert, led by the radiant Tracy Grammer. I had [...]

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The Joy Of Building Instead Of Destroying

April 12th, 2011 · 1 Comment · work

While the news is filled with the destructive war in Libya, a highly constructive event just occurred in Ethiopia. A Habitat For Humanity trip led

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The Best Entertainment I’ve Ever Had

November 15th, 2009 · No Comments · community, entertainment, food & drink, health & well being, simplicity

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Love On The Edge by Colleen Kaleda

February 14th, 2009 · 3 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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