Today, looking at the tiny house on wheels a teenager on Whidbey is building got me thinking about the motorhome – the Ultimate Vehicle – I and my clan built in the early 70’s. A decade ago, sure I wasn’t going on the road again …
Dear Friends far and wide! As we round the bend into the touted yet mysterious 2012, I offer a small reflection and celebration. The celebration: Day One of 2012, 20 years after publication of Your Money or Your Life, it is featured as one of …
I checked my old personal blog today and found this post from July 4, 2006. At the time I was working on a book about Freedom and Limits – working hard and in isolation and obviously wanting to leak some of it out! Still holds …
Donella Meadows was one of my great mentors. She, Dennis Meadows and Jorgen Randers were authors of the revolutionary 1974 Limits to Growth Report. These MIT early systems thinkers had the audacity to reveal the results of their computer modeling of resource flows – to …
Right now we all want to know what to DO about our money lives – myself included. First we need to BE with our money lives, though, and let the doing come from clarity rather than fear. Every day I hear another story about someone …
Three years ago I wrote a chapter for a book called Hope Beneath our Feet, a compilation of essays in response to the editor, Martin Keogh’s, question: If we’re looking down the barrel of environmental disaster, how then shall we live our lives? As I …
Want to be moved and inspired? Please take 2 minutes and read the transcript below of Grace Lee Boggs on Democracy Now yesterday in which she speaks with Amy Goodman about themes I’ve also lived and taught for years – that as we let go …
Are you protecting what you have rather than reaching for something greater? Are projects that were once delightful and interesting now an effort? Are you wondering if it is just you? If you’ve lost your groove? Well, I’m here to say that it ain’t you, …
I just found this comment on Kathy Masarie’s website. I feel privileged to carry a teaching that can make this kind of difference: Back in the day, I found incredible solace, wisdom, and support in the book, Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to …