Simple Living – Posts Revisited
Welcome to another visit to our archive to resurface articles from our writing team. Today let’s focus on the theme of simple living. It seems that life has a way of getting complicated all on its own, so simple living has a particular appeal to many of us. If we simplify our lives, it allows [...]
Simple Living – Simple Celebrations
Living a simple life, doing without most of the amusements and distractions our society finds so useful, not to say fulfilling, often means making one’s own fun. On our homestead, largely decoupled from the breakneck pace of the modern world, the rhythm of life is set primarily by the seasons, and their continuous cycle of [...]
Simple Living – Attuning to the Seasons
Living on a homestead in Alaska is definitely a slower lifestyle, not because it’s any less busy or full than others, but because our time is marked not so much in hours, minutes, and seconds as it is by the tides, the sun, and the seasons. We have adopted the old Celtic or natural calendar, [...]
Simple Gifts – Writing With a Fountain Pen
One of the simple gifts of life for me, is writing with a fountain pen. I’ve touched before on the importance of writing in my life, including writing handwritten letters to loved ones. Part of the pleasure of writing by hand is using a proper pen, which is, in my case, a fountain pen.
Simple Gifts – A Less Commercial Christmas
The season’s upon us. Insert your favorite phrase here to express loathing for the over-commercialization of holidays. Of all the simple gifts our family enjoys, perhaps the best is a Christmas celebration that doesn’t rely on commercial forces. I’m not going to talk about the spiritual side of Christmas. It’s hard to imagine anything less [...]
Simple Gifts – The Key to Simple Living
An old Shaker hymn says, “T’is a gift to be simple, t’is a gift to be free.” These are words my family and I live by—not because of any political or idealistic mindset so much as because it’s how we like to live. Most of our countrymen and women strive daily to “make a life,” [...]
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