Where is your treasure?
Where do you hide (and find) your treasure? It’s obvious, isn’t it? The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being. – Jesus (Matthew 6:20 MSG) It’s a simple truth, regardless of your religious affiliation. You’re going to spend your time and money where your [...]
The Story of Electronics
More great stuff from Annie Leonard… The Story of Electronics… Find out more at storyofstuff.org/electronics, electronicstakeback.com or get a copy of Anne’s book, The Story of Stuff, from Amazon or your favorite local bookstore.
The Story of Stuff for Kids
Annie Leonard, (Story of Stuff, The Story of Cosmetics, The Story of Bottled Water, and The Story of Cap and Trade) has now partnered with PBS and applied her formula to educate kids — think Story of Stuff for kids. LOOP SCOOPSare short, funny videos to get YOU thinking about the stuff in your life [...]
Finding thin spaces
There’s a beautiful image that comes from the Celtic tradition — a moment and space in time where heaven and earth are so close together that the spiritual and the natural world intersect. A place where it is possible to touch and be touched by God. The Celtic’s referred to these spaces as “thin spaces” [...]
The weekend’s big secret
This weekend our friends and family held a couple baby shower for My Life and I. While the event was originally planned to be hosted at our friends’ house, we decided it might be best to keep things close to home with My Life getting closer and closer to her due date and our desire [...]
Destroying the Warehouse Mentality: Stop hoarding and declutter your life
I think it’s time to let the cat out of the bag and help push my motivation forward towards finishing my new book. While writing posts for We Live Simply, I’ve also slowly been working on my next book, Destroying the Warehouse Mentality: Stop hoarding and declutter your life. While I wrote my last book [...]
Simple Manifesto #63: Carry less stuff
This is part of our series on Leo Babauta’s Simple Living Manifesto. We invite you to join us on the journey. The 63rd idea in the manifesto is: Carry less stuff. Are your pockets bulging? Consider carrying only the essentials. Want to lighten your load? Simple – carry less stuff. I remember several years back, [...]
