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#74–November, 2017

In This Issue:

• SLW! Podcast Epp. 104-107–Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?  annual Advent-Christmas-Epiphany resource for families and congregations (11/1, 11/15, 12/1, 12/15) //
• SLW! Podcast Ep. 103–Kathy McGinnis of The Peace & Justice Institute //
• Our Simpler Living Daily Nudge // NOVEMBER (More Celebrating) //
• What Others Are Doing – So Much Help – Latest Posts!
• More!

What’s NOW with SLW!

• SLW! Podcast Epp. 104-107–Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?  annual Advent-Christmas-Epiphany resource for families and congregations (11/1, 11/15, 12/1, 12/15) //
• SLW! Podcast Ep. 103–Kathy McGinnis of the Peace & Justice Institute and Parenting for Peace and Justice and her late husband Jim wrote the reflections for the “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” series in the Nov. & Dec. episodes of SLW! Podcast.  Visit the IPJ site. (10/15) //
• 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
  • September: Non-conform Freely // Week 1: Media Literacy || Week 2: Advertising & Public Relations || Week 3: Alternatives to TV, Video Games, Movies, Gambling || Week 4: Marketing
  • October: Sustenance // Week 1: Food || Week 2: Recipes (from Developing Countries) & Food Preparation || Week 3: Sustainable Agriculture, Organic Farming || Week 4: Gardening
  • November // Week 1: More Celebrating || Week 2: Preparations || Week 3: Unplug the Christmas Machine || Week 4: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?
• SLW! Blog Index | SLW! Podcast Index
• 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 Daily Calendar – NOVEMBER
• 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! – 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)
  • Let Go of What Was to Make Space for What Will Be (11/6)
  • All The Reasons You Keep Hearing About Minimalism (10/31)
  • Inspiring Simplicity Reads (10/28)
  • Why Families Need Minimalism (10/21)
• Center for a New American Dream 
  • Ideas to get more involved, both on an individual and a community level. From helping with hurricane relief efforts, to confronting racism in your community, there are plenty of ways to make a difference, with a couple pledges and challenges as well.
  • NEW WAYS TO HELP
  • Hurricane Relief: Another Way to Help. Did you know you can use SoKind to deliver the most-needed contributions – both material and non-material – to those who could use a helping hand? // FIND OUT HOW
  • Confronting Racism Casey Williams, New Dream’s Director of Operations and Outreach, makes the case for confronting racism through personal change, individual action, and community connection. // READ MORE // PLEDGE
  • Yes to Waiting The Wait Until 8th pledge empowers parents to rally together to delay giving children a smartphone until at least 8th grade. Research shows why kids are better off without the internet, social media, and games constantly at their fingertips. // SIGN THE PLEDGE // WORKING THE DREAM // CHALLENGE // ROUNDUP

    Likable Links

    The dis-ease of being busy & how to pause

    + Bookmark this: Simple Rules for Living
    + How to make positive changes stick
    + Americans under 25 are bringing a new era of tolerance
    + Well-being for people & the planet happens through “purpose in action”
    Susan Salterberg Interview
    Susan Salterberg, from Univ. of Northern Iowa’s Center for Energy & Environmental Education, speaks about her work guiding K-12 educators to create lessons for their students around consumption, well-being and sustainability.
    READ MORE

  • All Simplify the Holidays resources
• The Common Good Podcast
  • Ep. 89: Sr. Shirley Fineran: 21st Century Slave Trade—Helping Victims Recover from Human Trafficking (11/1)
  • Ep. 88: Paul K. Chappell: Distinguishing Violence from Aggression in Living & Teaching Nonviolence (10/1)
  • Ep. 87: Enrique Morones: Advocate for Migrants, Immigrants, and Keeping Borders Humane (9/1)
  • Ep. 86: Walter Brueggemann on the Primal Power of Money & Possessions, part 2 (8/1)
• 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
  • God’s Kin-dom and the Anthropocene (11/3)
  • Four Strategies for Effective Action (10/27)
  • Our Children’s Trust (10/20)
  • Save ANWR, Save the Climate (10/13)
  • Persistent in Compassion and Justice (10/6)
• Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo
  • Event: Inter-religious Critique of Capitalism
  • Toward an Ecological Civilization (8/30)
  • Jubilee Circles—What They’re Doing and How to Form One (8/29)
• Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways
  • Letting Go of Health – Life interrupted: 9 lessons from a fall
  • Letting Go of Anger – There can be such a thing as “holy anger” as long as we don’t wallow in it. Let go of the anger against the person and let your outrage with evil move you to ACT for the common good.
  • Letting Go of Mistakes – Forgiving oneself and others
  • Letting Go of the Familiar – Finding the balance between comfort with the familiar and growing into something new. Sometimes it’s not a choice..
  • Letting Go of Control – Do you need more self-discipline or less micro-managing your own life and other’s.  3 things you cannot control & 3 things you can.
  • Letting Go of Being Right – Is being right being smart or being smug? Ways to share your beliefs without being obnoxious and ignored.
• 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.
  • 103 | Masks
  • 102 | Purge
  • 101 | Style
  • Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things
• Northwest Earth Institute // SLW! Podcast
• The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham) // SLW! Podcast //
  • OneEarth Book Party Invite: 3 Authors and Their New Books (10/26)
  • Getting Beyond the Current Crises of Capitalism and Civilization (9/13)
  • “Ban the Bottle”—It’s a Great Campaign that Needs Us to Help End a Rip-Off and Protect the Planet and Our Water (8/29)
  • The Dangerous Support by Some Churches of Empire and U.S. Bullying Instead of Following Jesus (8/18)
  • 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
• 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: Sept.-Dec.

What’s Happened

• SLW! Podcast Ep. 102–Keghann Jarchow, founder and coordinator of the Univ. So. Dakota Sustainability Program. (10/1)
• Simpler Living Healthy Political Practices & Spiritual Disciplines.
• Simpler Living SANITY & SURVIVAL
• Banishing Fake News. READ MORE // See more Media Literacy resources.
• I Buy Blue. How About You?
• 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 feature 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 SLW! media
  

  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). Complete Episode Index. Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent).

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

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  Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011.

Simple Living Works! Weekly Digest

Oct. 22, 2017

In This Issue:

• SLW! Podcast Ep. 103–Kathy McGinnis of The Peace & Justice Institute (10/15) //
• SLW! Podcast Ep. 102–Keghann Jarchow of the Univ. So. Dakota Sustainability Program (10/1) //
• Our Simpler Living Daily Nudge // OCTOBER (sustenance) //
• What Others Are Doing – So Much Help – Latest Posts!
• More!

What’s NOW with SLW!

• SLW! Podcast Ep. 103–Kathy McGinnis of the Peace & Justice Institute and Parenting for Peace and Justice and her late husband Jim wrote the reflections for the “Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?” series coming in the Nov. & Dec. episodes of SLW! Podcast.  Visit the IPJ site. (10/15) //
• SLW! Podcast Ep. 102–Keghann Jarchow, founder and coordinator of the Univ. So. Dakota Sustainability Program. (10/1) //
• 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
  • September: Non-conform Freely // Week 1: Media Literacy || Week 2: Advertising & Public Relations || Week 3: Alternatives to TV, Video Games, Movies, Gambling || Week 4: Marketing
  • October: Sustenance // Week 1: Food || Week 2: Recipes (from Developing Countries) & Food Preparation || Week 3: Sustainable Agriculture, Organic Farming || Week 4: Gardening
• SLW! Blog Index | SLW! Podcast Index
• 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 Daily Calendar – OCTOBER
• 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

Coming

Nov.-Dec.: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? SLW! annual Advent-Christmas resource for families and congregations

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)
  • Why Families Need Minimalism (10/21)
  • Inspiring Simplicity Reads (10/14)
  • Why Experiences Are Better Than Things (10/11)
  • What I Learned About Minimalism in Poland (10/7)
• Center for a New American Dream 
  • Ideas to get more involved, both on an individual and a community level. From helping with hurricane relief efforts, to confronting racism in your community, there are plenty of ways to make a difference, with a couple pledges and challenges as well.
  • NEW WAYS TO HELP
  • Hurricane Relief: Another Way to Help. Did you know you can use SoKind to deliver the most-needed contributions – both material and non-material – to those who could use a helping hand? // FIND OUT HOW
  • Confronting Racism Casey Williams, New Dream’s Director of Operations and Outreach, makes the case for confronting racism through personal change, individual action, and community connection. // READ MORE // PLEDGE
  • Yes to Waiting The Wait Until 8th pledge empowers parents to rally together to delay giving children a smartphone until at least 8th grade. Research shows why kids are better off without the internet, social media, and games constantly at their fingertips. // SIGN THE PLEDGE // WORKING THE DREAM // CHALLENGE // ROUNDUP

    Likable Links

    The dis-ease of being busy & how to pause

    + Bookmark this: Simple Rules for Living
    + How to make positive changes stick
    + Americans under 25 are bringing a new era of tolerance
    + Well-being for people & the planet happens through “purpose in action”
    Susan Salterberg Interview
    Susan Salterberg, from Univ. of Northern Iowa’s Center for Energy & Environmental Education, spoke with us about her work guiding K-12 educators to create lessons for their students around consumption, well-being, and sustainability.
    READ MORE

    Join the EcoChallenge
    This October, the Northwest Earth Institute invites you to take on a personal sustainability challenge—and join thousands of other participants as they prove that small actions add up to real change—during the 2017 EcoChallenge.

    FIND OUT MORE

  • All Simplify the Holidays resources
• The Common Good Podcast
  • Ep. 88: Paul K. Chappell: Distinguishing Violence from Aggression in Living & Teaching Nonviolence (10/1)
  • Ep. 87: Enrique Morones: Advocate for Migrants, Immigrants, and Keeping Borders Humane (9/1)
  • Ep. 86: Walter Brueggemann on the Primal Power of Money & Possessions, part 2 (8/1)
• 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
  • Save ANWR, Save the Climate (10/13)
  • Persistent in Compassion and Justice (10/6)
  • Not My Neighbor? (9/29)
  • Secretary Zinke’s Empty World (9/22)
  • Deprivation or Opportunity (9/15)
• Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo
  •  Event: Inter-religious Critique of Capitalism
  • Toward an Ecological Civilization (8/30)
  • Jubilee Circles—What They’re Doing and How to Form One (8/29)
  • Tolerate the Heat (8/28)
  • Why World Peace Is Possible (8/25)
• Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways
  • Letting Go of Health – Life interrupted: 9 lessons from a fall
  • Letting Go of Anger – There can be such a thing as “holy anger” as long as we don’t wallow in it. Let go of the anger against the person and let your outrage with evil move you to ACT for the common good.
  • Letting Go of Mistakes – Forgiving oneself and others
  • Letting Go of the Familiar – Finding the balance between comfort with the familiar and growing into something new. Sometimes it’s not a choice..
  • Letting Go of Control – Do you need more self-discipline or less micro-managing your own life and other’s.  3 things you cannot control & 3 things you can.
  • Letting Go of Being Right – Is being right being smart or being smug? Ways to share your beliefs without being obnoxious and ignored.
• 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.
  • 101 | Style
  • 100 | Gone
  • 099 | Breathe
  • 098 | Horizons
  • Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things
• Northwest Earth Institute // SLW! Podcast
• The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham) // SLW! Podcast //
  • Getting Beyond the Current Crises of Capitalism and Civilization (9/13)
  • “Ban the Bottle”—It’s a Great Campaign that Needs Us to Help End a Rip-Off and Protect the Planet and Our Water (8/29)
  • The Dangerous Support by Some Churches of Empire and U.S. Bullying Instead of Following Jesus (8/18)
  • 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
• 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: Sept.-Dec.

What’s Happened

• SLW! Podcast #101–Paul K. Chappell: Peace Literacy (9/15)  //
• SLW! Podcast #100–Relevance of the Reformation Today: Bishop Guy Erwin  (9/1)
• Simpler Living SANITY & SURVIVAL
• Banishing Fake News. READ MORE // See more Media Literacy resources.
• We cancelled our vacation to Alaska and 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 feature 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 SLW! media
  

  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). Complete Episode Index. Listen through your computer, iPod, iPad, iPhone (or equivalent).

  SUBSCRIBE through iTunes, Stitcher.com or your favorite podcast service. To SUBSCRIBE to email notices, click Comments at the bottom of Show Notes, then check ‘Notify me of new posts by email.’ Please rate us in iTunes and leave a review.

  Send us your email address to receive the free monthly SLW! eNews. Remember to like us on Facebook. Urge your friends to do the same. Do your friends a favor. Share our blog and podcast.

  Like SLW! on Facebook. | Follow us on Twitter. | Follow us on Pinterest. Share your thoughts on our podcast and blogs. Email SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com, leave a message on our Facebook page or on the SLW! blog.

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

  IMAGE: Spirit of Simplicity #2-A2033

  Copyright: Creative Commons non-commercial attribution share-alike license.

  Through social media, we extend the mission and resources of the non-profit organization Alternatives, 1973-2011.