Life Design with the World in Mind
It contains all my work to date on food, money, conversation, community building, sustainability.
Life. This is the life part of Your Money or Your Life. The money part is actually just preparation for (or in support of) a purposeful, meaningful, joy-filled life.
You build financial security so you are ever-free-er to give, love, serve, explore, create, invent, nest, garden, raise a family, go to an ashram.
Debt, stress and deadening jobs suck the joy out of everything, and spare you no spare time.
Love takes time. Family takes time. Creativity takes time. Citizenship takes time. Navigating by a moral compass takes time.
Life in this context means those expanses of time into which you will express yourself. It’s a holy task – which means getting down to the marrow of existence, away from the frittering crowds. As Henry David Thoreau wrote: