Simplicity
If you want gas prices to go down, use less gas
I’m both amused and annoyed by the various schemes going around by email to lower gas prices. I got two today: one that’s calling for a don’t-buy-gas day and one that’s calling for a boycott of a specific chain.
Clearly people don’t really get the whole supply-and-demand thing. Demand is still demand, regardless of [...]
Ordinary object-hacking trancends the language barrier
I don’t speak Czech, but that didn’t keep me from really enjoying this book of new uses for familiar objects. I particularly enjoyed 17, 21, and 25…
Are you ready to shake things up?
I regularly read Jessica Duquette’s blog, “It’s not about your stuff!” Jessica is a professional organizer and frequently shares tips about getting rid of clutter, general organizing, etc. (all of which I need!). But sometimes she writes something that is even more broadly applicable.
I present to you, “How do you know when it’s time [...]
Change your words to change your life
I’m reading a book on decluttering and came across this particular piece of advice that seems applicable to just about all areas of life:
This book is not telling you that you “should” do this or “should” do that but it explains how keeping clutter can affect you so that you can make your own informed [...]
PARK(ing)
In an odd-but-cool project, someone(s) called “rebar” created “a temporary urban park“. This is strangely fascinating to me. Their website actually doesn’t explain very well what was done (I take that back—the text doesn’t, but the pictures do), but it sounds like they scouted out an ideal parking spot (good sun being the [...]
Sensible Thanksgiving
Budget Savvy Magazine sends out occasional “tidbits” [subscription info] that I like a lot. The most recent one has to do with Thanksgiving dinner. Many families take the meal very serious and consider it a failure if there aren’t 20 dishes on the table. Budget Savvy suggests this idea for a little [...]
A great free download for simple living
I came across Beth Dargis’s Simplicity Calendar through a newsletter I subscribe to (I love good newsletters!), and it really appeals to me. It’s free if you subscribe to her newsletter (which I suspect will be great).
This reminds me vaguely of several magazines I’ve read over the years. There was something, maybe put [...]
What I want to be
I’ve been thinking about this passage since I read it. It’s from The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis, chapter 12:
Some kind of procession was approaching us, and the light came from the persons who composed it.
First came bright Spirits, not the Spirits of men, who danced and scattered flowers—soundlessly falling, lightly drifting flowers, though [...]
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