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Simple Living Works! eNews #48 – Sept., 2015

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!

Hi! We are planning to do an alternative Christmas workshop at our church next month and would like to have copies of “Whose Birthday Is it, Anyway? #27” for participants. Please let me know when these will be available and how we can obtain them.

Thanks so much. Barbara

Greetings, Barbara,

Glad to hear from you. “Whose Birthday?” 2010 was the last edition distributed on paper. Since then I have published it on the internet. The 2015 ed. is scheduled to be on our website in Sept. When it’s ready, I’ll announce it in the Simple Living Works! weekly blog and monthly eNews.

You’re welcome to assemble and copy a version that meets your local needs. All of our resources and service are now free of charge.

Keep in touch.

Peace, Gerald

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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.

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!

Whose Birthday? #16 is scheduled for release as a multi-part SLW! podcast series in late fall. This legacy resource 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!

• SLW! Podcast #52: Kristina’s “Alternative” Ph.D. Dissertation

• FREE Publications

  I’m looking for a good home for some interesting, unusual magazines. I request you pay only actual media mail charges. Look through the list. First come/first served. Please reply by the end of Sept.

• SLW! Podcast Episode 51 :: Steve Beumer, White House ‘Champion of Change’ Honoree: People of Faith Acting for the Climate
• So Much Help!  I’m glad to pass along links from simple living bloggers, podcasters, coaches and others. Some faith-based, some not. See “What Other are Doing” below. You needn’t read them all. Choose FIVE links — including SLW! — to investigate.
• FALL FESTIVAL RESOURCES
• UNPLUG the Christmas Machine Workshop
• How to Host an Alternative Gift Fair
• Planning an Alternative Christmas Workshop
• How to Organize an Alternative Christmas Community Festival
• Resource Index: Advent/Christmas
• Feeling Bullied by Consumo? Ask Slim.
• 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!

• Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
  • 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)
  • Greater Riches Than Wealth (8/5)
  • Inspiring Simplicity. Weekend Reads (8/1)
• Center for a New American Dream: Download NEW Kids Unbranded Action Kit (7/14)
• The Common Good Podcast
  • Episode 63 :: Judie Lincer: Naturalist Educator for SDCaN
  • Episode 62 :: Jeff Lincer: Heroic Efforts to Manage Habitats of Endangered Species—Are They Succeeding?
• 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
  • United We Bargain (9/4)
  • Aging Parents and Coal Towns  (8/28)
  • Dangerous Territory (8/14)
  • Rejecting Global Devastation (8/7)
• 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:
• • 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
• Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
• • 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 (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)
  • “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 Upgrades?” (8/7)
  • “Quoditian” (8/4)
  • “Talking with Jesus” (8/1)
• Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)
  • 7 Tips for Freezing Meat for Quick and Easy Meals (9/1)
  • Simplifying Life: The Day My World Was Unplugged (8/27)
  • How My Colleagues Make Life Easier (8/19)
  • The Truth Cost of Fashion (8/5)
  • Why We Love Community (8/4)
• Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
• • Sept. 4 edition
  • Aug. 28 
  • Aug. 21
  • Aug. 14
  • Aug. 7
• 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)
  • The 4 Pillars of Survival and How to Reconnect to Nature with Cliff Hodges, Ep. 80
  •  How to End the Undeclared War on Childhood and Simplicity Parenting with Kim John Payne, Ep.79
• For links to earlier entries, check the previous SLW! blog.
  

  Upcoming Alternate Celebrations

  • NEW – 9/11
  • September Celebrations

  What’s Coming

• SLW! Podcast: World Community Cookbooks UPDATED (9/15)

• What’s Happened

• 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
• • EarthDay.fm is a 24 hour internet station that plays Eco or Earth music—and has listeners in over 120 countries.  Joyce was one of the founding members of the board of MUSE (Musicians United to Sustain the Environment).
  • Her music is streamed in many places—Spotify, Amazon Cloud Drive, iTunes Radio and iTunes Match, XBox, Rhapsody, EarthDay.fm and more streaming and internet radio. Listen to some full cuts here.
  • Her “Enough Is as Good as a Feast” is in Alternatives’ Stories and Songs of Simple Living — introduction, audio and lyrics.
• SLW! Podcast #49: Laird Schaub, Exec. Sec., Fellowship for Intentional Community, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting cooperative culture. Intentional communities are pioneers in sustainable living, personal and cultural transformation, and peaceful social evolution, 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. Since its beginning in 1987, FIC works in a number of ways, including the Communities Directory, Communities magazine, Community Bookstore, community-focused Events, Classifieds, the Blog, and more. FIC’s passion is promoting cooperative culture and sustainable living. That means providing the information and inspiration for those seeking community, forming communities, struggling with the challenges of community, and those who want to develop a greater sense of community where they are.
• Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
• Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
  

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  Peace, Gerald “Jerry” Iversen, Chief SLW! Activist

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