My experience is that great books are like life-blood to the Diamond-Cut Life (a life rich in joy and low in consumption). I have often been dollar-poor, and though I’m not any longer, good books give me — I think us — an exciting inner life whatever our external status in the world. Reading an [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Eric Brende'
Books That Excite Me Or Make Me Laugh
March 7th, 2009 · No Comments · community, entertainment
Tags: Anne Lamott·Barbara Kingsolver·books·Eric Brende·happiness·Jared Diamond·technology·thrift
Celebrating the Fourth, Diamond-Cut Style
July 4th, 2008 · No Comments · community, entertainment, food & drink, health & well being, simplicity
Happy Fourth of July! It’s our nation’s birthday. I’ve posted Ideas for celebrating below, based on this basic life-principle we all tend to forget: A nation starts its life in the beginning as land, as earth — before people arrived to populate it. And that land, the soil, water and things that grow on it, [...]
Tags: Barbara Kingsolver·books·citizenship·cooking·culture·Declaration of Independence·earth·environment·Eric Brende·exercise·green living·land·life·outdoors·TV
