Hello, you wonderful fellow resident of this planet!
Welcome to more musings on the state of our world, creativity and sustainable living. I have to confess to finding our current trajectory alarming in the extreme. So many people falling struggling to eat and pay for heating, so many people working precarious stressful jobs to make and deliver to us goods that we essentially have no need of.
I spend time each morning sitting quietly with my coffee. I could call it meditation or prayer, but it is more free flowing than that suggests. This week, an idea popped into my head, that I might have reached peak possessions.
It's an exciting thought, stimulated by reading Joshua Becker's latest book, Things That Matter. His message is not about 'minimalism' as a paradoxically fancy lifestyle, but about reducing our excess to make way for things that matter more. As we consider the next stage of life when David retires, I have the chance to think about this very seriously.
If you are interested in learning more about reasons to reduce what you buy, try these articles. Hair-raising and inspiring!
Dead White Men's clothes
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Before you buy ANYTHING
Am I imagining you objecting that the economy would collapse if we stop 'supporting' it by endless consumptio? We get told that often enough, but our system is collapsing right now anyway.
Strange but true to accept that the future of our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren lies in our daily beliefs and habits.
We have more power than we realize, folks!
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