Greetings from Alison Wiley here in Portland, Oregon. I'm a writer/doer/thinker who lives happily by putting people, nature and God ahead of accumulating more stuff. Read more →
We planted our pathway garden over the gloriously sunny Easter weekend with our friend Scott Schreiner. He’s a former housemate, the second of three good people in our lives who have worked for rent. Scott drove his truck across the Cascade range from Bend, where he lives, first finding a carpool partner from Craigslist who [...]
Tags: Grand Canyon·green cards·payback period·solar panels·Steve Coll
This is a guest post by my friend Allison Hamilton. Allison lives in the country and skillfully grows an amazing variety of vegetables and fruit trees, when she isn’t creating award-winning solar energy projects. She calls me Ali. I love the way she’s deepened the conversation on the best things in life. I love this [...]
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Just a brief post to note that we finally found a housemate to help us fill up our house and practice community.
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Quality of life and joy generally come from what we do and who we are with, not from the things in our life. Feel free to post a comment on what thing or item you’d be just as happy without. Bottled water. Thumbs up on drinking lots of water; thumbs down on using billions of [...]
Tags: bottled water·bras·foot powder·OLCV·Oregon League of Conservation Voters·Sex And The City·shoes·soap·tanning beds
Our driveway has a vast hill of fertile dirt in it because we are finally building a garden, having spurned the lawn our builder offered to put in for us. We’ve named this temporary geographical feature Sammy’s Mountain because
Have you ever stared down a paralyzing fear – and gained mastery of it, to where you then walked into your power, your sphere of influence? This is my long-promised sequel to Alison Cassandra Barcelona, in which I’ll tell why I feel hope rather than despair about
Tags: 350.0rg·collapse·copenhagen talks·faith·nightmares·roommates·sphere of influence
Thor and I returned yesterday from our annual New Year’s retreat, which we take together each year, just the two of us, to go into our deep inner lives and look at our intentions for 2010. This year we
The first part of this piece I posted last year, on the 2008 winter solstice. The rest of it I added for 2009. Today is winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. In the days long before fossil fuels routinely lit our nights, winter solstice was celebrated as the Birthday of the Unconquered Sun. [...]
Tags: Christianity·Christmas·divine feminine·Goddess·Jared Diamond·Our Father·solstice·winter solstice
What do I feel like eating tonight? Shall I drop by the grocery store for it, or go out? That is a game I’ve often played in my life, a modern game common in developed countries because we have so many choices, so much food, so many restaurants. It hasn’t been proven, though, that the [...]
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