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Cecile Andrews
Champion of Simplicity Circles and Community Conversation
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Cecile’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)
NEW! Living Room Revolution: A Handbook for Conversation, Community and the Common Good (2013)
A former community college administrator, Cecile received her doctorate in education from Stanford University. She is active in the Sharing movement, the Seattle Area Happiness Initiative and the Transition Town movement, all efforts to build community and sustainability where they count the most, at the local level. She lives in Seattle and spends the winter in Santa Cruz CA, teaching in the Stanford Health Improvement Program and pursuing her passion for leading small groups to help change society.
“From things like Shareable.net and Meetups, we’re seeing a transformation in how our society gets things to change,” Cecile says. “The old ways don’t work any more. They’re costing us too much, not just in dollars but in our future, our children’s future, and the survivability of the planet.”
What needs to happen? “It all starts with local,” Cecile says. “And local starts with small groups, meeting in places like people’s living rooms, cafes, meeting rooms and auditoriums.
“That’s why I wrote Living Room Revolution,” she said. “I see, speak to and talk with lots of groups who really want to have an impact, want to see change. But they don’t necessarily know how to take their energy, vision and commitment to the next level.
“Living Room Revolution is all about helping them move forward. It’s meant to be a step-by-step guide for creating and leading the most powerful force our society has ever known — the small group of committed people.”
Cecile’s available for consultations via Skype, Facetime, Facebook and online forums, as well as in person (wherever she happens to physically be at the moment!). Also by email at Cecile@CecileAndrews.com. Cecile’s site is CecileAndrews.com
To LISTEN to this episode, click the player at the top or the bottom of the Show Notes, or visit the Episode Index.
RELATED: Reimagining America: An Evening with Gus Speth & Juliet Schor | Watch these videos to hear Speth and Schor discuss innovations in collaborative consumption, ways the sharing economy is changing our country, and opportunities to define a new American Dream.
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- Spirit of Simplicity: Quotes and Art for Simpler Living and Global Justice — Foreword by Cecile Andrews
What’s NOW with SLW!
- Day of Remembrance, Feb. 19 | Remember the story of Japanese-American internment during World War II. READ MORE
- Simple Living 101 Social Media Supplement: Blog #1 – Intro | My personal experience and preferences… READ MORE
What’s Coming
- Alternative Rites of Passage, including Wedding Alternatives – March 1 Podcast
What’s Happened
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – Feb. 19 – See Day of Remembrance above.
- Perceived Value: Strategies for Overcoming the Tyranny of Appearances — recent SLW! blog
- Valentine’s Day (art & text can be used as bulletin inserts) | Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14)
- AFFLUENZA Valentine’s Day Vaccination Party | Also, my Recent Interview with Affluenza Producer & Author, John De Graaf
- Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold) + Jerry’s Excellent Adventure – Feb. 1 SLW! Podcast | Sharing the Joy of a Simpler Lifestyle Through Speeches, Workshops, Events, Study/Action Groups, Simplicity Circles and Social Media
What Others Are Doing
- Interviews, Exhibits, Free Copies, and Book Groups—Spreading the Conversation about the OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42
- Faith and Money Radio – Making the Connection
- Mark Rasmussen on Aldo Leopold’s Legacy: GMO’s, biofuels and Occupying the World Food Prize, all on TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episodes 43-44.
- Bob Sitze’ Blog – Simple Enough: Present Shock
More Resources
Check out a few of these thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE.
- Treasury of Celebrations*: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth – Jan.-April
- 10 Tips for Simpler, More Meaningful Celebrations
- Alternatives’ Seasonal/Thematic Index
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- 10 Tips for Simpler, More Meaningful Easter | Celebrations | SPANISH: 10 puntas
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- SEASONAL HELPS from *Treasury of Celebrations: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth: Winter Festivals: Jan.-April | LENT | EASTER
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Episode Index: #1-3: Getting Acquainted | #4-5: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle | #6-11: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? | #12: Living More with Less UPDATED | #13: Let’s Get Ready for a Simpler Lent & Easter | #14: Simple Living 101 + Social Media BONUS | #15: author Cecile Andrews
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
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We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization Instead, we urge Alternative Giving. Give away 25% of what you spent last year on all celebrations – Christmas, birthdays, etc. — to local, national and international causes.
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*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index
To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog several times a week.
Perceived Value
Posted on: February 14, 2014
Early in my career, when I worked as Public Relations Director for a small Midwestern college, I naively asked a senior staffer why the college’s tuition went up each year.
“Perceived value,” he said. “If we don’t cost as much as our competition, people will think we’re lower quality.”
I was flabbergasted then and I still am. The cost wasn’t tied to inflation or expenses but to image. No surprise that college tuition and expenses continue to rise, and student debt as well.
Competition is supposed to drive prices down. At the same time we have perceived value that keeps prices of luxury cars high cars (besides CEO’s inflated salaries, that is) because they wouldn’t want to be confused with economy cars.
If we’re consumers that can see beyond our desire for status, then we have several strategies to deal with this tyranny of appearances.
1. We can refuse to buy, refuse to be drawn in by “perceived value.” Ask the salesperson to relay our distain for perceived value to the business owner.
2. We can decline to compliment friends who do buy, even if we’re invited to stroke their egos. We don’t have to be mean. We can let our real values be known in a friendly way.
3. We can model alternative behavior. For example, wear Fair Trade clothes from other countries, and when complimented, briefly tell the story of the craftspeople who made it. Tell your friend where they can get Fair Trade items too. In this case, the value is not only in the beauty but also in the relationship with the artisan.
4. We could wear a T-shirt or display a bumper sticker: Perceived Value ≠ Real Value. Be prepared to explain.
5. Devise your strategy to confront/counteract/disarm perceived value and to promote/encourage real value.
I find the best way to define REAL VALUE is to use the Five Life Standards of Living More with Less. (You may choose another, such as the Ten Commandments.)
For example, since the resources and services of Simple Living Works! are free, they have no perceived value, though they have immense real value.
What’s NOW with SLW!
- Presidents’ Day, Mon., Feb. 17 | Washington’s Birthday, Feb. 22
The Presidents’ Days offer an opportunity to remember two great Presidents and, in the process, to consider important qualities of political leadership. READ MORE
- Day of Remembrance, Feb. 19 | Tabletalk on Remembrance Day
Remember the story of Japanese-American internment during World War II. READ MORE
Simple Living 101 Social Media Supplement: Blog #1 – Intro | My personal experience and preferences… READ MORE
Valentine’s Day (art & text can be used as bulletin inserts) | 3-A537–Death Penalty | 3-A539–Human Rights: An Affair of the Heart | 3-A542–First Valentine (above) | 3-A549–Prisoners of Conscience
- Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14) | Sweethearts and Prisoners | Human Rights: An Affair of the Heart | Prison Bars Don’t Stop Love and Appreciation 1 | Prison Bars Don’t Stop Love and Appreciation 2
- AFFLUENZA Valentine’s Day Vaccination Party | Also, my Recent Interview with Affluenza Producer & Author, John De Graaf
- Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold) + Jerry’s Excellent Adventure – Feb. 1 SLW! Podcast | Sharing the Joy of a Simpler Lifestyle Through Speeches, Workshops, Events, Study/Action Groups, Simplicity Circles and Social Media
What’s Coming
- Cecile Andrews, Champion of Simplicity and Community Conversation Circles – Feb. 15 Podcast
What’s Happened
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – Feb. 14 – See St. Valentines’ Day above.
What Others Are Doing
- Interviews, Exhibits, Free Copies, and Book Groups—Spreading the Conversation about the OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42
- Faith and Money Radio – Making the Connection
- Mark Rasmussen on Aldo Leopold’s Legacy: GMO’s, biofuels and Occupying the World Food Prize, all on TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episodes 43-44.
- Bob Sitze’ Blog – Simple Enough: Present Shock
More Resources
Check out a few of these thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE.
- Treasury of Celebrations*: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth – Jan.-April
- 10 Tips for Simpler, More Meaningful Celebrations
- Alternatives’ Seasonal/Thematic Index
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3). Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent). SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.
Access individual episodes: #1-3: Getting Acquainted | #4-5: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle | #6-11: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? | #12: Living More with Less UPDATED | #13 – Let’s Get Ready for a Simpler Lent & Easter | #14 – Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold) + new Social Media Supplement | #15 – Author Cecile Andrews, Champion of Simplicity/Community Conversation Circles
Do your friends a favor. Share this blog and podcast.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
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*GRAPHIC: Spirit of Simplicity: #7-A830
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index
To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog several times a week.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
- Lincoln’s Birthday, Feb, 12 | Presidents’ Day, Mon., Feb. 17 | Washington’s Birthday, Feb. 22
The Presidents’ Days offer an opportunity to remember two great Presidents and, in the process, to consider important qualities of political leadership. READ MORE
- Day of Remembrance, Feb. 19 | Tabletalk on Remembrance Day
Remember the story of Japanese-American internment during World War II. READ MORE
What’s NOW with SLW!
Simple Living 101 Social Media Supplement: Blog #1 – Intro | My personal experience and preferences… READ MORE
Valentine’s Day (art & text can be used as bulletin inserts) | 3-A537–Death Penalty | 3-A539–Human Rights: An Affair of the Heart | 3-A542–First Valentine (above) | 3-A549–Prisoners of Conscience
- Valentine’s Day (February 14) | Sweethearts and Prisoners | Human Rights: An Affair of the Heart | Prison Bars Don’t Stop Love and Appreciation 1 | Prison Bars Don’t Stop Love and Appreciation 2
AFFLUENZA Valentine’s Day Vaccination Party | Also, my Recent Interview with Affluenza Producer & Author, John De Graaf
- Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold) + Jerry’s Excellent Adventure – Feb. 1 SLW! Podcast | Sharing the Joy of a Simpler Lifestyle Through Speeches, Workshops, Events, Study/Action Groups, Simplicity Circles and Social Media
What’s Coming
- Cecile Andrews, Queen of Simplicity Circles – Feb. 15 Podcast
What’s Happened
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – Feb. 13 – “If I give away all my possessions… but do not have love, I gain nothing.” – from I Corinthians 13. What keeps me from giving the gift of myself more often? What non-material gifts could I gave on the various gift-giving occasions during the year? (from Trek)
What Others Are Doing
- Interviews, Exhibits, Free Copies, and Book Groups—Spreading the Conversation about the OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42
- Faith and Money Radio – Making the Connection
- Mark Rasmussen on Aldo Leopold’s Legacy: GMO’s, biofuels and Occupying the World Food Prize, all on TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episodes 43-44.
More Resources
Check out a few of these thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE.
- Treasury of Celebrations*: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth – Jan.-April
- 10 Tips for Simpler, More Meaningful Celebrations
- Alternatives’ Seasonal/Thematic Index
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3). Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent). SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.
Access individual episodes: #1-3: Getting Acquainted | #4-5: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle | #6-11: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? | #12: Living More with Less UPDATED | #13 – Let’s Get Ready for a Simpler Lent & Easter | #14 – Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold) + new Social Media Supplement
Do your friends a favor. Share this blog and podcast.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest.
*GRAPHIC: Spirit of Simplicity: #8-A860
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index
To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog several times a week.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
Social Media Post #1 – Intro
Posted on: February 11, 2014
Simple Living 101 Social Media Supplement: Blog #1 – Intro
This is not Social Media for Dummies. I will talk about my personal experience and preferences… in the form of blog posts, of course. Though I’ll release posts one-at-a-time, you can read the whole series anytime. READ MORE
What’s NOW with SLW!
Valentine’s Day (art & text can be used as bulletin inserts) | 3-A537–Death Penalty | 3-A539–Human Rights: An Affair of the Heart | 3-A542–First Valentine (above) | 3-A549–Prisoners of Conscience
- Valentine’s Day (February 14) | Sweethearts and Prisoners | Human Rights: An Affair of the Heart | Prison Bars Don’t Stop Love and Appreciation 1 | Prison Bars Don’t Stop Love and Appreciation 2
- Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold) + Jerry’s Excellent Adventure – Feb. 1 SLW! Podcast | Sharing the Joy of a Simpler Lifestyle Through Speeches, Workshops, Events, Study/Action Groups, Simplicity Circles and Social Media
What’s Coming
- Cecile Andrews, Queen of Simplicity Circles – Feb. 15 Podcast
What’s Happened
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – Feb. 10 – Freedom from anxiety is characterized by three inner attitudes. If what we have we receive as a gift, and if what we have is to be cared for by God, and if what we have is available to others, then we possess freedom from anxiety. This is the inward reality of simplicity. However, ifwhat we have we believe we have gotten and if what we have we believe we must hold onto, and if what we have is not available to others, then we live in anxiety. Such persons will never know simplicity regardless of the outward contortions they may put themselves through in order to live ‘the simple life.’ -Richard Foster
What Others Are Doing
- Interviews, Exhibits, Free Copies, and Book Groups—Spreading the Conversation about the OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42
- Faith and Money Radio – Making the Connection
- Mark Rasmussen on Aldo Leopold’s Legacy: GMO’s, biofuels and Occupying the World Food Prize, all on TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episodes 43-44.
More Resources
Check out a few of these thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE.
- Treasury of Celebrations*: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth – Jan.-April | Presidents’ Day, 2/17 | Day of Remembrance, 2/19
- 10 Tips for Simpler, More Meaningful Celebrations
- Alternatives’ Seasonal/Thematic Index
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3). Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent). SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.
Access individual episodes: #1-3: Getting Acquainted | #4-5: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle | #6-11: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? | #12: Living More with Less UPDATED | #13 – Let’s Get Ready for a Simpler Lent & Easter | #14 – Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold) + new Social Media Supplement
Do your friends a favor. Share this blog and podcast.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest.
*GRAPHIC: Spirit of Simplicity: #8-A860
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index
To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog several times a week.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
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I was in prison and you visited me.
The First Valentine
The real St. Valentine was martyred in Rome about 270 A.D. While in prison, the story goes, Valentine was befriended by his jailer’s daughter. On the eve of his execution, Valentine thanked her for her care and kindness in a note signed “Your Valentine. ” And so was born our tradition for exchanging such notes.
In observing this day, the spirit of kindness shown by the jailer’s daughter reminds us to include concern for those in prison. There are charges and counter-charges about our prisons and criminal justice system. Some say, “We need more jails and longer sentences!” while others say, “Our prisons are filled with poor people unable to afford legal assistance available to the affluent.” The debate goes on. We need to know more than we do about our penal system. And Valentine’s Day is a good time to begin learning.
For Reflection and Action
1. Visit some people in jail or prison. Meet their families. Take your children along with you. Also, meet and talk with someone who has been a victim of crime.
2. Talk about the ways our criminal justice system is just and unjust. What kinds of measures would make it more just and result in greater protection for society at large?
Personal Experience
Our congregation supports Prison Congregations of America, which works to form Lutheran (ELCA) congregations within prisons. We have four such congregations in Northwest Iowa and Southeast South Dakota. The “inside” and “outside” councils raise enough to pay the ordained pastor. This is not a chaplain. Recently one congregation was awarded the Outstanding Literacy Project in the state for inmates reading books to their children via recordings!
Our team goes to worship with the inmates about six times a year (once a month while the weather’s reasonable). The inmates really appreciate our presence and we get our stereotypes about prisoners shredded!
If you want more of a challenge, join a ReEntry Team, a group of five people who pledge to contact a recently released prisoner in your area weekly to help him/her with housing, employment, medical, etc.
Valentine’s Day (art & text can be used as bulletin inserts)
3-A537–Death Penalty | 3-A539–Human Rights: An Affair of the Heart | 3-A542–First Valentine (above) | 3-A549–Prisoners of Conscience
What’s NOW with SLW!
- Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold) + Jerry’s Excellent Adventure – Feb. 1 SLW! Podcast | Sharing the Joy of a Simpler Lifestyle Through Speeches, Workshops, Events, Study/Action Groups, Simplicity Circles and Social Media
What’s Coming
- Cecile Andrews, Queen of Simplicity Circles – Feb. 15 Podcast
What’s Happened
- Let’s Get Ready for a Simple, More Meaningful Lent & Easter – Jan. 15 SLW! Podcast
- New Year, New Daily Inspiration: free Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – Feb. 8 – After the Bible, the hymnal often is the second most important book to many Christians. If you do not have one, buy your denominational hymnal for your office and home for private and family daily devotions. Read one hymn per day as poetry. Sing the ones you know.
What Others Are Doing
- Interviews, Exhibits, Free Copies, and Book Groups—Spreading the Conversation about the OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42
- Faith and Money Radio – Making the Connection
- Unstuff with YES! Magazine and latest from Story of Stuff Project
- Richard Foster’s Guidelines for Simplicity
- Mark Rasmussen on Aldo Leopold’s Legacy: GMO’s, biofuels and Occupying the World Food Prize, all on TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episodes 43-44.
More Resources
Check out a few of these thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE.
- Treasury of Celebrations*: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth – Jan.-April
- 10 Tips for Simpler, More Meaningful Celebrations
- Alternatives’ Seasonal/Thematic Index
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3). Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent). SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.
Access individual episodes: #1-3: Getting Acquainted | #4-5: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle | #6-11: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? | #12: Living More with Less UPDATED | #13 – Let’s Get Ready for a Simpler Lent & Easter | #14 – Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold) + new Social Media Supplement
Do your friends a favor. Share this blog and podcast.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest.
*GRAPHIC: Spirit of Simplicity: Chapter 3: Celebrating Other Times #3-A542–First Valentine
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index
To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog several times a week.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
What’s Now with SLW!
- Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold) + Jerry’s Excellent Adventure – Feb. 1 SLW! Podcast | Sharing the Joy of a Simpler Lifestyle Through Speeches, Workshops, Events, Study/Action Groups, Simplicity Circles and Social Media
What’s Coming
- Cecile Andrews, Queen of Simplicity Circles – Feb. 15 Podcast
What’s Happened
- Let’s Get Ready for a Simple, More Meaningful Lent & Easter – Jan. 15 SLW! Podcast
- New Year, New Daily Inspiration: free Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – Feb. 1 – Musicians are not exempt from the call to offer help to the needy and to care for God’s Creation. Urge your congregation to put on a benefit concert, including some music of social responsibility. Worthwhile musicals are Lazarus from Bread for the World, and The Race: A Simplicity Musical from the ELCA Hunger Program.
What Others Are Doing
- Interviews, Exhibits, Free Copies, and Book Groups—Spreading the Conversation about the OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 (33:32)
- Faith and Money Radio – Making the Connection
- Unstuff with YES! Magazine and latest from Story of Stuff Project
- Richard Foster’s Guidelines for Simplicity
- Mark Rasmussen on Aldo Leopold’s Legacy: GMO’s, biofuels and Occupying the World Food Prize, all on TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episodes 43-44.
More Resources
Check out a few of these thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE.
- Treasury of Celebrations*: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth – Jan.-April, including St. Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14)
- 10 Tips for Simpler, More Meaningful Celebrations
- Alternatives’ Seasonal/Thematic Index
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3). Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent). SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.
Access individual episodes: #1-3: Getting Acquainted | #4-5: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle | #6-11: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? | #12: Living More with Less UPDATED | #13 – Let’s Get Ready for a Simpler Lent & Easter | #14 – Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold) + new Social Media Supplement
Do your friends a favor. Share this blog and podcast.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest.
*GRAPHIC: Spirit of Simplicity: Chapter 1: Voluntary Simplicity #1-A508
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index
To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog several times a week.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
NOT Jesus CEO!
I wrote a chapter on the Prosperity Gospel for a college text book and named names of the “evangelists” of this devious perversion of Jesus’ words.
Entirely on the other hand, Faith and Money Network*, a colleague of SLW! for over 30 years, now has a new, intriguing limited-time (three month) weekly 60-minute internet radio program on VoiceAmerica.com. I subscribed to the podcast in iTunes. The Show Notes are on the FMN site at FaithAndMoneyNetwork.org. Host Mike Little has outstanding guests lined up! You can listen live Mondays at noon (EST) or hear any of the past shows at. . .
FMN on the Radio
Hear such guests as Rev. Roy Howard and theologian Ched Myers, Trip of Perspective leaders Djaloki Dessables and Kim Montroll, philanthropists Judy and David Osgood, and more, probing a range of topics that can help you make the connection between your faith and your money.
January 20: Escaping the Work-More/Spend-More Cycle, with Rev. Matthew Colwell, Tim Darst and Angela Lincoln
Pastor Matthew Colwell will show us why and how to slow our lives down a bit and remember who we are and whose we are. Then Angela Lincoln and Tim Darst will share their story of choosing to consume less than is typical in the U.S., opening a full and faithful life for themselves and their daughters. Through their story, we can begin to see the advantages of being thoughtful consumers, knowing that how we live affects other people and the planet, and how conscious consumption choices can free us to enlarge our mission and impact in the world.
January 13: Faith and Money: The Biblical Vision, with theologian Ched Myers
We may try to separate money and faith in our lives, but the Bible will have none of that. Money themes are woven throughout the Bible. In both the Old and New Testaments, we have lessons and stories, parables and prophecies about living together in God’s economy of enough for all. Let’s begin to recover what God has provided in the Scriptures. Activist, theologian and popular educator Ched Myers will share his thoughtful and challenging insights into the Bible’s instructions around money. And we will hear examples of people who are, today, taking these biblical instructions to heart in their daily lives.
Ched Myers is an activist, theologian and popular educator who animates scripture and issues of faith-based peace and justice. Ched writes prolifically, leads retreats and seminars, preaches and teaches and facilitates gatherings, partnering with a variety of theological and social justice organizations over the past 40 years.
January 6: Faith and Money: making the connection with special guests, Betsy Edmonds and Frank Butler
For more information please contact Mike Little at 202.469.8512 or mike@faithandmoneynetwork.org
What’s Now with SLW!
- Let’s Get Ready for a Simple, More Meaningful Lent & Easter – Jan. 15 SLW! Podcast. Let’s Get Ready for a Simpler, More Meaningful Lent and Easter – Click this Index to follow along as you listen.
To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom of the complete Show Notes. Individual Episode Index (or see the list at the bottom of these notes)
COMING next episode: Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold) + BONUS Social Media Supplement – Jerry’s Adventures in Social Media
- Free Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – Jan. 29: “Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?”-from Matthew 6:24-33. How do my clothes reflect my personality and my values? Did the people who made my clothes get a fair wage for their work? Go to your clothes closet. Choose enough clothes to wear a different outfit each day for a week. Put the other clothes aside. Wear only the clothes you’ve chosen for the next two weeks. (from Trek)
What Others Are Doing
- Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us by SLW! colleague Lee Van Ham is available in paperback at your local independent bookstore and online as an eBook. I urge you to do at least one of the following about the book:
- Book Giveaway for Blinded by Progress – Enter to win one of 10 free copies from Jan 20-Feb 21, 2014.
- Lee’s interview with Ysmay Walsh on Joycott.com.
- TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 (33:32)
- Inside Personal Growth with Greg Voisen (34:08)
- Follow the progress of the book at TheOneEarthProject.com.
- Then recommend the book to others easily at GoodReads.com. Establish a free account easily, as I did recently, and give Lee five stars, maybe even a comment of encouragement.
- Mark Rasmussen on Aldo Leopold’s Legacy: How Leopold’s Land Ethic challenges industrial ag’s overuse of water and soil – TheCommonGoodPodcast.com
More Resources
- Check out a few of these thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE.
- Treasury of Celebrations*: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth – Jan.-April, including St. Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14)
- 10 Tips for Simpler, More Meaningful Celebrations
- Alternatives’ Seasonal/Thematic Index
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3). Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent). SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.
Access individual episodes: #1-3: Getting Acquainted | #4-5: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle | #6-11: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? | #12: Living More with Less UPDATED | #13 – Let’s Get Ready for a Simpler Lent & Easter
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Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
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*GRAPHIC: Mike Little, Exec. Dir., Faith and Money Network, formerly Ministry of Money
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index
To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog several times a week.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
SHOW NOTES
In this episode. . .
Let’s Get Ready for a Simpler, More Meaningful Lent and Easter – Click this Index and follow along as you listen.
To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom of the complete Show Notes. Individual Episode Index (or see the list at the bottom of these notes)
COMING next episode: Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold) + BONUS Social Media Supplement – Jerry’s Adventures in Social Media
Lent/Easter Resources Site Map
Resources Master Index (Archives)
Collections Index by Theme/Seasons:
Advent/Christmas/Epiphany | Lent/Easter | Other Seasons | Anytime/Non-Seasonal | Music | Art | Audio | Video | Spanish | Living More with Less
- Article/ART Index: Easter
- Bulletin Inserts are indexed in Articles by season.
- En Español (all)
- Lenten Calendars and 40-Day Guides – For the current liturgical cycle (A), use #6, 9, 12, 15, or 18. Some are not based on a cycle and can be used any year.
- Sing Justice! Do Justice! New Songs & Hymns to Familiar & New Tunes: Lent/Easter, e.g. #19
- Spirit of Simplicity: Quotes and Art for Simpler Living and Global Justice | Foreword by Cecile Andrews | Introduction | How to Use This Collection | QUOTES | ART
- Treasury of Celebrations
- Part 1: Making Choices — Simple Living, Gift Giving, Food and Celebration, Getting Started
- Part 2: Gifts
- Part 3: Celebrations — Jan-Apr | LENT | EASTER, May-Aug, Sep-Dec, Advent, Christmas
- Part 4: Rites of Passage
- Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? A. Reflection/Activity Guides (two guides for each cycle – total of six); B. Passover and Easter Seders; C. Posters and 40-Day Calendars; D. Bulletin Inserts & Covers (#551-559)
- Worship Alternatives: Worship Items (Litanies, Hymns, Prayers, etc.)| Sermons | ART for Lent/Holy Week/Easter
Mentions in This Episode
Those Who Speak for God: Household Studies on the Minor Prophets
Guides for Sharing These Resources: School of Layout | Reaching Out Through the Media
Overflow Project 50-Day Challenge | my blog Simplify + Give + Change = Water
Bring Simpler Living to Your Group!
Testimonials/Feedback/Comments/Response
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What’s Now with SLW!
- Let’s Get Ready for a Simple, More Meaningful Lent & Easter – Jan. 15 SLW! Podcast
- New Year, New Daily Inspiration: free Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – Jan. 24 – “Quality time” can be a myth, an excuse to spend a little time together in order to spend more time working to make more money to accumulate more stuff. Quantity time is also needed for healthy relationships, being there… in sports and fun, worship, talking, the arts. If you find this is a problem, discipline yourself to keep track of relationship time and increase it 10% each month till you reach your goal. Jan. 25 – Life Standard: Non-conform Freely. The forces against living simply are extremely powerful and devious. Some of them are quiet, unwritten… like how we dress in church, how our house will look at Christmas time. But many of them can be loud, in-your-face forces that work to get as deeply into our pocketbook as possible. (See September for media pressures.)
What’s Coming
- Social Media Supplement to Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists Shy or Bold – Feb. 1 SLW! Podcast
What Others Are Doing
- Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us is available in paperback at your local independent bookstore and online as an eBook. I urge you to do at least one of the following about the book:
- Book Giveaway for Blinded by Progress – Enter to win one of 10 free copies from Jan 20-Feb 21, 2014.
- Lee’s interview with Ysmay Walsh on Joycott.com.
- TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 (33:32)
- Inside Personal Growth with Greg Voisen (34:08)
- Follow the progress of the book at TheOneEarthProject.com.
- Then recommend the book to others easily at GoodReads.com. Establish a free account easily, as I did recently, and give Lee five stars, maybe even a comment of encouragement.
- Mark Rasmussen on Aldo Leopold’s Legacy: How Leopold’s Land Ethic challenges industrial ag’s overuse of water and soil – TheCommonGoodPodcast.com
More Resources
- Check out a few of these thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE.
- Treasury of Celebrations*: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth – Jan.-April, including St. Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14)
- 10 Tips for Simpler, More Meaningful Celebrations
- Alternatives’ Seasonal/Thematic Index
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3). Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent). SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.
Access individual episodes: #1-3: Getting Acquainted | #4-5: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle | #6-11: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? | #12: Living More with Less UPDATED | #13 – Let’s Get Ready for a Simpler Lent & Easter
Do your friends a favor. Share this blog and podcast.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest.
GRAPHIC: Spirit of Simplicity: Lent & Easter #3-A555
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index
To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog several times a week.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
Here are some good reasons. . .
What’s Now with SLW!
- Let’s Get Ready for a Simpler Lent & Easter – Jan. 15 Podcast
- Thought for the Day from free Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar.
- Jan. 21-Cooperative, non-competitive games nurture relationships. Try The Christmas Game I, The Christmas Game II, The Anytime Game, Lifestories: a fun board game of telling tales; Futurestories; and Conversation Pieces: Parents, Kids and Other Animals. See September 19 for more titles.
- Jan. 22-A weekly family meeting at a set time helps to coordinate schedules and gives children respect, inclusiveness and empowerment. It can also diffuse arguments. At a time of tension, one can say, “Let’s take this up at the family meeting.” Take turns taking minutes. Follow with family fun-time.
What’s Coming
- Social Media Supplement to Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists Shy or Bold – Feb. 1 SLW! Podcast
What’s Happened
- Richard Foster’s Guidelines for Simplicity Yes, he’s the author of Celebration of Discipline and Freedom of Simplicity. Foster’s guidelines complement the Five Life Standards of Living More with Less.
What Others Are Doing
- Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us is available in paperback at your local independent bookstore and online as an eBook. I urge you to do at least one of the following about the book:
- Book Giveaway for Blinded by Progress – Enter to win one of 10 free copies from Jan 20-Feb 21, 2014.
- TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 (33:32)
- Inside Personal Growth with Greg Voisen (34:08)
- Follow the progress of the book at TheOneEarthProject.com.
- Then recommend the book to others easily at GoodReads.com. Establish a free account easily, as I did recently, and give Lee five stars, maybe even a comment of encouragement.
More Resources
- Check out a few of these thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE.
- Treasury of Celebrations*: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth – Jan.-April, including St. Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14)
- 10 Tips for Simpler, More Meaningful Celebrations
- Alternatives’ Seasonal/Thematic Index
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3). Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent). SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.
Access individual episodes: #1-3: Getting Acquainted | #4-5: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle | #6-11: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? | #12: Living More with Less UPDATED | #13 – Let’s Get Ready for a Simpler Lent & Easter
Do your friends a favor. Share this blog and podcast.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest.
GRAPHIC: Spirit of Simplicity: ART #3-A0861
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index
To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog several times a week.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
Blinded by Progress
Posted on: January 18, 2014
Recommended Reading
In 2012, I began an enlightening collaboration with Jubilee-Economics.org.
I have been so touched by its OneEarth message that I now co-host and produce The Common Good Podcast each month and blog at Jubilee-Economics.org once a week.
Jubilee’s Exec. Dir. Lee Van Ham has recently released the first volume of his Eden Trilogy. I had the honor of reading and commenting on it before publication.
Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us is available in paperback at your local independent bookstore and online as an eBook.
I urge you to do at least one of the following about the book:
TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 (33:32)
Inside Personal Growth with Greg Voisen (34:08)
Follow the progress of the book at TheOneEarthProject.com.
Then recommend the book to others easily at GoodReads.com. Establish a free account easily, as I did recently, and give Lee five stars, maybe even a comment of encouragement.
What’s Now with SLW!
- Let’s Get Ready for a Simpler Lent & Easter – Jan. 15 Podcast
- Thought for the Day from free Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar. Jan. 17 – We find meaning in life through our relationships with God, nature and people, not through stuff. Often we allow our things to own us. We go into debt paying for something. We have to maintain it, then secure it so nobody steals it! What owns whom?
What’s Coming
- Social Media Supplement to Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists Shy or Bold – Feb. 1 SLW! Podcast
What’s Happened
- Richard Foster’s Guidelines for Simplicity Yes, he’s the author of Celebration of Discipline and Freedom of Simplicity. Foster’s guidelines complement the Five Life Standards of Living More with Less.
What Others Are Doing
- ACTION OF THE MONTH: Think of one item you regularly buy in the conventional market and buy it from the green sector market instead. More info here.
- YES! Magazine’s 7 Ways to UnStuff + Story of Stuff Project’s most recent video: Story of Solutions
- Mark Rasmussen on Aldo Leopold’s Legacy: How Leopold’s Land Ethic challenges industrial ag’s overuse of water and soil – TheCommonGoodPodcast.com
More Resources
- Check out a few of these thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE.
- Treasury of Celebrations*: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth – Jan.-April, including Chinese New Year (Jan. 31) and St. Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14)
- 10 Tips for Simpler, More Meaningful Celebrations
- Alternatives’ Seasonal/Thematic Index
Podcast Reminder
You can access all SLW! podcast audio and the show notes either at SimpleLiving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST or at SimpleLivingWorks.org (then click window #3). Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent). SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service.
Access individual episodes: #1-3: Getting Acquainted | #4-5: Beyond a Consumer Lifestyle | #6-11: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? | #12: Living More with Less UPDATED | #13: Let’s Get Ready for a Simpler Lent & Easter
Do your friends a favor. Share this blog and podcast.
Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist
Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest.
GRAPHIC: Blinded by Progress
We do not solicit or accept donations, nor do we sell anything. All our resources and services are free of charge. We’re an all-volunteer organization.
Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011. Simple Living Works! web site home page | Theme/Seasons Index
To learn more about SLW! – our MISSION, for example — please listen to our getting-acquainted episodes, especially #1 and 2. We produce a half-hour podcast twice a month, hopefully educational and inspiring for you, your family and your congregation or group. We blog several times a week.
*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.
Simple Living Works! 