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Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest

August 15, 2017

In This Issue:

• SLW! Podcast #99 — Order of Lutheran Franciscans (8/15) //
• SLW! Podcast #98 — Vicki Robin, co-author of the classic “Your Money or Your Life” (8/1)  //
• NEW – Simpler Living HEALTH: New Suggestion in each Weekly Nudge //
• Our Simpler Living Daily Nudge // AUGUST
• What Others Are Doing – So Much Help – Latest Posts!
• More!

What’s NOW with SLW!

• In the 500th year of the Reformation SLW! Podcast #99 — Order of Lutheran Franciscans
• SLW! Ep. 98 [8/1]–Vicki Robin, co-author of the classic Your Money Or Your Life, which has an updated edition schedule by March, 2018; founder of the Simplicity Forum.
• NEW – Simpler Living Healthy Political Practices & Spiritual Disciplines. New Suggestion in each Weekly Nudge
• Our Daily Simpler Living Nudge
  • What Is The NUDGE? / How It Works / How to GET It – Subscribe by sending NUDGE to SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com. / How to SHARE It / More About Holidays
  • August: NEW (Personal Choices, Happiness, Fulfillment // Week 1:Work, Stress & Health // Week 2: Support // Week 3: Transportation & Travel // Week 4: Homes & Buildings: Construction, Energy Generating, Appliances

• SLW! Blog Index | SLW! Podcast Index
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• Simpler Living Daily Calendar – AUGUST
• Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index

What’s Coming

In its 500th anniversary year, what’s the relevance of the Reformation today? Conversation with Reformation history scholar Bishop Guy Erwin (9/1).

What Others Are Doing – So Much Help! – Latest Posts

I gladly pass along links from simple living bloggers, podcasters, coaches and others. Some faith-based, some not. You needn’t read them all. Choose FIVE links — including SLW! — to investigate. COMPLETE LIST — Monthly Digest

• Alternative Radio Podcast (David Barsamian)
• Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
  • 5 Myths That Encourage Excess Spending (8/17)
  • Simplifying After Tragedy Strikes (8/11)
  • Reconsidering The Merits of Slow Acquisition (8/7)
  • Inspiring Simplicity Reads (8/5)
  • 7 Reasons to Minimize Your Kitchen This Weekend (7/28)
• Center for a New American Dream 
  • All Simplify the Holidays resources
• The Common Good Podcast
  • Ep. 85: Actions for a Better World in a Time of Climate Change and U.S. Extremism — Lee & Jerry (7/1)
  • Ep. 84: Patricia St. Onge: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Peoples Coming Together for OneEarth Living (6/1)
  • Ep. 86: Walter Brueggemann on the Primal Power of Money & Possessions, part 2 (8/1) [Back-Up]
• Earth Island Journal (Earth Island Institute): Latest News // Current Issue 
• Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) New Song Made for These Times for “Ladies Sewing and Resistance Society” counters the anti-woman, bullying, hate filled policies of the new administration. Lead sheet with melody line, full lyrics, video (1 minute) of singing and sewing, video (6 minute) including wonderful short interviews — all at Monthly Digest (above).
• Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast #18 // SLW! Podcast #66
  • Prayer for Times of Turmoil (8/18)
  • Accepting North Korea (8/11)
  • The Church and Ecocide (8/4)
  • Act and Pray in the Season of Creation (7/26)
  • The Forest and the Trees (7/21)
  • Rejecting Energy Dominance (7/14)
• Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo
  • Save Carrizo Plain! (7/1)
  • Wes Howard-Brook on the Religion of Empire vs. the Religion of Creation in the Bible and Beyond (6/22)
  • A World Famous Prayer Opposes Superpowers, Urges Jubilee Living
• Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways
  • Going Beyond My Bubble – Why and how I became motivated to reach out to those who voted differently than me.
  • Procrastination Redeemed – 5 lessons learned from continuing to declutter my work space
  • Political Conversations – an interruption – or was it
  • Updating My Life: Files  // Paper  //  Books
  • Letting Go of Health – Life interrupted: 9 lessons from a fall
• The Minimalists podcast (Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus). Getting us past the things so we can make room for life’s most important things — which actually aren’t things at all.
  • 091 | Nostalgia
  • 090 | Alignment
  • 089 | Reconcile
  • 088 | Respond
  • 087 | Balance
  • Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things
• Northwest Earth Institute // SLW! Podcast
• The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham) // SLW! Podcast //
  • Is It Even Possible for Corporations to Rule in Favor of OneEarth Living? A Corporate Lawyer Replies (8/10)
  • A Corporate Attorney Speaks to How Corporations Rule the World (8/2)
  • With U.S. Abdicating Leadership on Climate, Is Any World Leader Likely to Give This Speech? The Podium Waits (7/10)
  • The Launch of “Eco-Ministry for Life on Earth” Course
• PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
  • Environmental article archive, our Save the Planet hub, our Tree Hugging Center for Arbor Day and our favorite Earth Day quotes!
  • Tallying the Environmental Movement’s Wins and Losses in 2016
  • Need vs. Want vs. Impact
  • The Environmental Benefits of a Vegetarian Diet
  • Lessons Learned from Prince
• Prayer & Politiks (Ken Sehested): At the intersection of spiritual formation and prophetic action
  •  Signs of the Times: News, views, notes, and quotes
• Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)–Time, Finances, Home-Work, Health.
• Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
• Smart and Simple Matters podcast (Joel Zaslofsky of Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent) // SLW! Podcast
• For links to earlier entries, check the SLW! Monthly Digest.
• Non-Conform-Freely Celebrations: May-Aug.

What’s Happened

• SLW! Podcast #96, part 1 // #97, part 2 — Shane Claiborne of TheSimpleWay.org and RedLetterChristians.org, author of the classic Irresistible Revolution and the new Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It’s Killing Us
• SLW! Podcast #95 — Peter Sawtell of Eco-Justice Ministries (6/15)
• Simpler Living SANITY & SURVIVAL
• Banishing Fake News. READ MORE // See more Media Literacy resources.
• We’ve cancelled our vacation to Alaska and plan to see the fall colors in Vermont instead. More information about “I Buy Blue. Won’t You Too?“
• Post-Election Emergency/Disaster Preparedness and Survival Guide
• Review of Lee Van Ham’s new “From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable,” vol. 2 of the “Eden for the 21st Century” Trilogy. Colleague Lee’s new book is now available on Amazon in print and ebook and other locations where you can get the ebook (Nook, iBooks, Kobo).
• New Simpler Formats for 2017 — The monthly SLW! eNews and Weekly Digest will feature only the latest posts from colleague organizations. The complete Monthly Digest only on the SLW! site will be updated at least once a week. The Weekly Nudge will feature only offering from SLW! Both the Weekly Digest and Weekly Nudge come as part of your free subscription to SLW! Blog. The Daily Nudge comes by email (send NUDGE to SimpleLivingworks@yahoo.com) or by Twitter @GeraldIversen. Choose the options that work for you.
• Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions
• Recent Responses to all SLW! media
  

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