Simple Living Works! Weekly
Posted on: September 9, 2015
Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest
In This Issue:
- Do-It-Yourself “Whose Birthday?”
- Kristina’s “Alternative” Ph.D. Dissertation
- Free Fall Festival Resources
- What Others Are Doing – So much help!
- More!
Yes, YOU can have our own customized, DIY Whose Birthday? Click here for tips to CREATE, PRODUCE, DISTRIBUTE and PROMOTE your do-it-yourself version.
Make it provocative (such as art at left), humorous, serious or a combination, in your way to advance SLW! mission: “equipping people of faith to challenge consumerism, live justly and celebrate responsibly.”
The classic Advent/Christmas resource “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” is available in multiple formats in 2015 to meet your personal, family and community needs.
“Whose Birthday?” #27 is a new, free online collection. Use as much as you need in print or online. Also, contribute your art and articles to SLW!
A legacy “Whose Birthday?” is scheduled for release as a multi-part SLW! podcast series in late fall. It can also be used as text or audio. It’s calendar matches the lectionary cycle (C).
You’re welcome to contribute to our most widely-read resource, “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” #27 for Advent/Christmas. All past editions are still available on the SLW! site. The articles are carefully indexed.
The current edition will be updated as new material arrives, so send ideas and items anytime. Prepare something now while it’s really on your mind. Submission Guidelines
Read past editions in the archives.
What’s NOW with SLW!
Plus links to other fascinating historical “Alternative” documents and photos.
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FREE Publications
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- FALL FESTIVAL RESOURCES
- SUBSCRIBE to SLW! Podcast for free through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. Subscribe to SLW! Blog. Click “+Follow” at lower right of blog post, enter a name and email address. Welcome!
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – SEPTEMBER
- 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 Others Are Doing – So Much Help!
I’m glad to 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.
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Owning Less Is Great. Wanting Less Is Better. (9/15)
- Inspiring Simplicity. Weekend Reads. (9/12)
- A Season to Gather Happiness (9/7)
- 7 Daily Habits for a Clutter-Free Home (9/2)
- Inspiring Simplicity. Weekend Reads. (8/29)
- Influence. You Already Have It. (8/26)
- Inspiring Simplicity; Weekend Reads (8/15)
- Understanding the Diderot Effect (and How To Overcome It) (8/13)
- Center for a New American Dream: Download NEW Kids Unbranded Action Kit (7/14)
- The Common Good Podcast
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) — Website, Songbooks, Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumbdrive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings — all NEW
- Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive
- Strategic, Collective Action (9/11)
- United We Bargain (9/4)
- Aging Parents and Coal Towns (8/28)
- Dangerous Territory (8/14)
- GodSpace (Christine Sine)
- The Homesteading Guide Daily: Homesteading adventurer exploring life off the grid. Inviting you to share my journey and the friends I meet as we help you with your homesteading endeavors.
- Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways // TMI-Too Much Information:
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- Paper–newspapers, magazines, catalogs, junk mail, books
- Audio/Visual Media–radio, TV, movies, videos,
- Electronic Communication–email, social media
- Phone–solicitations, cell phone limits, smart phones
- Being Weighed Down by Too Much Bad News–wars, natural disasters, tragedies
- Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
- Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
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- Zero-Sum Relationships (7/20)
- The Spirituality of Scarcity and Abundance
- The Neighborhood Church as Fungus
- NorthWest Earth Institute‘s newest discussion course ebook, Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions
- The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham)
- Three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals
- Conversation about The OneEarth Project and Lee’s book,
Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us - The Common Good Podcast, episode 42
- Lee’s new Slide Show
- NEW – The Pastoral Center/Gospel Living (Paul Canavese)
- CatholicCreationCare.com – General resources
- CreationCareKids.com – Children’s resources
- Advent/Christmas resources for families, some incorporating Alternatives.
- Easter resources for families
- PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough
- Inspiring Less-is-More Quotes to Find Your Personal Less (8/24)
- Tips for Raising PostConsumer Children
- Grade School Years
- Middle School Years
- High School Years
- College Years
- Simple Enough (Bob Sitze)
- “The cost of redemption” (Part 2) (9/15)
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“The cost of redemption” (Part 1) (9/12)
- “Simple words: Redemption” (9/9)
- “Simple congregation: Prayer writing as worship preparation” (9/6)
- “Simple things: Paper” (9/3)
- “Praying the Context” (8/31)
- “A Bandwagon Is Coming Your Way (8/28)
- “Simple Words: Hormesis” (8/25)
- “Simplicity’s Children: Nothing New” (8/22)
- “TV Glut” (8/19)
- “Relishing the Small Stuff” (8/16)
- “The No-Program Church” (8/14)
- “The Simpler Pastor” (8/12)
- “Simple Things: Garden Tools” (8/10)
- Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)
- Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
- Sept. 11 edition
- NEW – Simplicity Parenting (Kim John Payne): because it is a beautiful world
- Smart and Simple Matters podcast (Joel Zaslofsky of Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent)
- For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
Upcoming Alternate Celebrations
- NEW – 9/11
- September Celebrations
What’s Coming
- SLW! Podcast #53: World Community Cookbooks UPDATED (9/15) (complete preview)
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What’s Happened
- SLW! Podcast #51: Steve Beumer, White House ‘Champion of Change’ Honoree: People of Faith Acting for the Climate
- SLW! Podcast #50: Joyce “Earth Mama” Rouse — Read her bio, philosophy and resources at her NEW Website. Also, Songbooks, Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumbdrive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings — all NEW
- SLW! Podcast #49: Laird Schaub, Exec. Sec., Fellowship for Intentional Community, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting cooperative culture, including ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts, income-sharing communes, student co-ops, spiritual communities, and other projects where people live together on the basis of explicit common values.
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
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